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Published Thursday, 19-Jun-2008 in issue 1069
“I’m 66. If they had let me get married 10 years ago, I would have been 20 pounds lighter and I wouldn’t have needed airbrushing.”
Veteran lesbian activist Robin Tyler as she married Diane Olson, granddaughter of former California Gov. Culbert Levy Olson, June 16 in Beverly Hills, to the Los Angeles Times. Tyler and Olson, 54, have been together 15 years.
“Congratulations to all of us: May equality live long and prosper.”
George Takei, who played Sulu on the original Star Trek, as he and partner Brad Altman picked up a marriage license June 17 in West Hollywood.
“(We’re) going to wait until it’s legal everywhere, because otherwise, I said to Kelli, we’ll be going around touring the country on the marriage tour every state by state. Once it gets to be at the federal level, once every state recognizes the marriages of every other state, I think that’ll be the time we would do it.”
Rosie O’Donnell on getting married, to the Associated Press, June 5.
“That won’t happen. ... The proposed amendment itself is blatantly unfair. I think people will not vote for it because it is so blatantly unfair. I do not think Californians will support using our constitution to treat people differently.”
Shannon Minter, lead lawyer for the gay side in the California same-sex marriage case, on the Nov. 4 ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to overturn the state Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, to Palm Springs’ Desert Sun newspaper, June 6. The weddings began June 16.
“I think once we have lesbian and gay couples being married in California, (people are) going to realize that lesbian and gay couples want what they want. They want to fall in love and marry the person of their choosing. The whole effort on this is based on scaring people. Once they see, you can’t use fear anymore.”
Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, on the Nov. 4 ballot initiative to amend the state constitution to overturn the state Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, to Palm Springs’ Desert Sun newspaper, June 6. The weddings began June 16.
“The idea that they don’t have the resources is absurd. It’s ridiculous raise your fees to cover your costs and get volunteers. (They should) be more honest and say we can’t stand the idea of gay people getting married so we’re going to break the law.”
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom offering to go to California’s Kern and Butte counties to help conduct same-sex marriages, to the San Francisco Business Times, June 12. The clerks of the two counties stopped performing all marriages – gay and straight – just before the California Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage took effect June 16. By law, county clerks have to issue marriage licenses, but they do not have to offer marriage ceremonies. At least 45 of California’s other 56 counties will continue offering ceremonies. Kern County’s largest city is Bakersfield and Butte’s is Chico.
“I had a gay kid say to me the other day: ‘Men and women on death row can marry people on the outside. They’re allowed to get married. And gays want the same rights as people on death row.’ I thought that was pretty good thinking. ... It’s just an interesting thing that gays don’t have the same rights as people on death row.”
Newspaper columnist Liz Smith in an article published by The Women on the Web, wowowow.com, May 28.
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