This news snippet brought tears to my eyes:
San Francisco: Mayor Gavin Newsom will conduct just one marriage tonight for Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon....

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/16/MNPQ11A3VF.DTL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_martin_and_phyllis_lyon
http://www.now.org/issues/lgbi/021304lyon-martin.html
http://www.geocities.com/mycauses/legend.html