a brief history of same-sex marriage
on february 10, 2004, california mayor gavin newsom historically announced that san francisco city hall would start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even though federal law at the time held that marriage was strictly between a man and a woman. between february-march 2004, 4,096 same-sex couples were married before the california supreme court halted & then later voided those ceremonies. it wasn’t until june 16, 2008 that same-sex marriage licenses began to be issued again in california. however, only a few months later, california passed proposition 8, creating a constitutional ban on on same-sex marriages. it took 2 more years of fighting before prop 8 was overturned in 2010.
