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Storm damage photos, outages linger, 30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

Prop 8

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Op-ed: What Wednesday, June 26, meant to me

by Julia Hannafin July 10, 2013, 2:57 p.m.October 4, 2022

My moms, Audrey and Dawn, on their wedding day in 2008, wearing pink Post-It notes with their names on them so that the marriage officiant stopped confusing their names. Photo: Julia Hannafin I woke up Wednesday, June 26, like it was any other day. I slid out of bed and felt the bluntly edged pain […]

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Photos: Berkeley celebrates Pride in San Francisco

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor July 01, 2013, 7:00 a.m.October 4, 2022

Sandy Stier and Kris Perry, lead Prop. 8 plaintiffs, celebrated in San Francisco’s Pride Parade on Sunday June 30. The couple were married on Friday at San Franciso City Hall by Attorney General Kamala Harris. Photo: William Newton Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the 43rd San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Parade yesterday. […]

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Berkeley Prop. 8 couple first to marry after stay lifted

Avatar photo by Tracey Taylor June 28, 2013, 5:12 p.m.October 4, 2022

Berkeley couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were married today, Friday June 28, at San Francisco City Hall. Attorney General Kamala Harris officiated. Photo: KTVU Prop. 8 plaintiffs and Berkeley couple Kris Perry and Sandy Stier were married this afternoon by Attorney General Kamala Harris at San Francisco City Hall. The wedding took place at around 4:30 […]

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Berkeley celebrates historic Supreme Court decisions

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel June 27, 2013, 11:30 a.m.October 4, 2022

Berkeley Wednesday celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow same sex marriages in California. Shown here: the rainbow flag outside Berkeley City Hall on March 26 while the US Supreme Court was hearing oral arguments in the Prop. 8 case. Photo: Lance Knobel After the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday allowing same sex marriages […]

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Obama lauds Berkeley couple who fought Prop. 8 and won

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel June 26, 2013, 9:42 a.m.October 4, 2022

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the Berkeley women who filed a legal challenge to Prop. 8. They first tried to marry in 2004 when then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began issuing licenses. They are the parents of four boys. Shortly after the Supreme Court released its ruling on Prop. 8 this morning, President Obama […]

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Berkeley couple at heart of Prop 8 case speak out

Avatar photo by Frances Dinkelspiel Aug. 05, 2010, 11:42 a.m.October 4, 2022

After a federal judge ruled that Prop 8 was unconstitutional on Wednesday, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley, the two women who brought the case, spoke out at a press conference in San Francisco. One poignant thought from Perry: “For so long, Sandy and I and our family have been regarded as less than, […]

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