Ok, so they have since split up and their marriage was deemed invalid by the State of California. But for a short time in 2004, Rosie O'Donnell and Kelli Carpenter were legally married. See that marriage license there? It was real.
I was in school near City Hall in San Francisco at that time. It was so exciting to be there every day and see all the satellite news trucks covering the event, all the couples lined up in the rain waiting for their chance to be legally recognized, and even the silly protesters. Hope was in the air! We didn't know how long it would last, but it was thrilling to witness such an important step forward in the fight for marriage equality. The mood was very different in 2009 across the street at the Supreme Court building when they affirmed the right of our fellow citizens to write discrimination into the California constitution.
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