A year later

As the Chronicle points out, yesterday was the one year anniversary of the start of San Francisco's brief period of performing same-sex marriages.

It seems appropriate, then, to point you to our own Robert Haaland's Guardian op-ed on the subject:

When Mayor Gavin Newsom began performing marriage ceremonies in City Hall, my beliefs were profoundly changed. It was no longer just a theoretical concept to me. Over and over again, I watched my friends standing amidst dozens of other couples exchanging vows. (I will never forget how quickly my radical feminist lesbian neighbors ran off to City Hall to get married.) Over and over again, I cried during their ceremonies. Couples whose commitment ceremonies I've attended, who have been together for years, whose vows to each other have been well-established by years of domesticity and partnership, were marrying in small, extremely joyful circles of wet eyes and big smiles.

Read the whole thing.