SF queer marriages continuing thru long weekend

Feb. 13-14-15-16: queer marriages continue in SF
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Dear freedomseekers,

By public radio, I hear that San Francisco City Hall's marriage license bureau will stay open thru the three-day weekend, Feb. 14-15-16, to issue marriage licenses -- mainly to same-sex couples.

Fascists will try again to stop such licenses from being issued. But their first chance won't come until a court hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 17, since Monday is a public holiday.

I heard that a group of Muslim fascists demonstrated outside SF City Hall, denouncing queers. I'm sure there must also be some Muslims who believe in freedom, but I don't know what the percentages of opinion are.

Maybe I'll make a pro-freedom sign, and walk over to Civic Center Plaza, facing City Hall, today.
Maybe with this message:

"CIVIL Marriage
is a
CIVIL Right."

I might write this on the back of an anti-war sign.

See you there?
Tortuga Bi Liberty
SF, CA
Saturday morning , 14 Feb. 2004, Valentine's Day
around 10:45 AM

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[part of a] washingtonpost.com article:


Gay Couples Rush to San Francisco

By Evelyn Nieves
[WASHINGTON POST (DC)]

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 [Friday]--
The couples began lining up outside City Hall at 4 a.m., four hours before the marriage license bureau opened.

By 8 a.m., more than 50 couples were waiting for the new gender-neutral licenses that would allow same-sex couples to marry. By 9 a.m., there were 100 couples; by 11 a.m., 200 couples. Some had flown in from New York or had driven all night from such places as Los Angeles, Portland, Ore., and Palm Springs, Calif. [....]
[et cetera]

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