Olson & Tyler: Just Married … At Last! [video]
”I now pronounce you spouses for life in the sight of God, the Jewish community and all people.”
Reform Rabbi Denise Eger officiating over the final 15-minutes of a ceremony to join Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, to lesbian activists who brought a ground-breaking lawsuit against the unconstitutional ban against same-sex marriages in the state of California. (Fox 11 LA)
”I’m 66. If they had let me get married 10 years ago, I would have been 20 pounds lighter and I wouldn’t have needed airbrushing….. This is a civil rights movement. The courthouse is the place where we were turned down.”
Robin Tyler after she and her long-time partner of 15 years, Diane Olson were legally married on the steps of the Beverly Hill courthouse. The couple are the original plaintiffs who brought a 2004 lawsuit charging that the ban on gay marriage was against the California state constitution, and they went to the courthouse to obtain a license on a number of years each Valentine’s Day but were turned down. They were given the honor of being the first same-sex couple to legally wed in Los Angeles County. (LA Times)
”Other gays and lesbians are excited, but my straight friends are really excited. I guess they understand, maybe because they are used to ritual and the meaning of it, and they watched me struggle for this.”
Robin Tyler, amid champagne flutes and slices of wedding cake, remarking on her wedding ceremony to Diane Olson. (The Jewish Journal)
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