Straight couples married alongside gay day excitement
”We feel like the minority, which is rare… We thought we’d be the only heterosexual couple, but we heard there have been others.”
Reed Bennett-Eisen who, with his fiancée Ilana Friedkin, was surrounded by same-sex couples while waiting in line to get their marriage license. (San Francisco Chronicle)
”It’s more exciting…. We’ll never forget, right? It was the same time they legalized gay marriage.
Ana Pacheco who married her husband, Squires, at San Francisco’s City Hall. The groom’s mother reportedly grabbed a lesbian couple to witness the heterosexual couple’s ceremony. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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