Gavin Newsom walked the route and shook hands with the people while holding his daughter, Montana, who was waving a rainbow flag. Following the motorcycles were contingents of costumed bicyclists from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the AIDS Lifecycle. "So many of us could never imagine this would happen, that people would be able to do what they want for the rest of their lives."Ī motorcade of around 200 motorcycles kicked off the parade, which made its way from Market and Beale streets to the Civic Center. "It's so historic," Jeff Margolis, 58, said. There is a vindication, and you can feel it." "You can feel the smiles," Graham Linn, 42, of Oakland said as he stood on a three-foot-tall building ledge to watch the parade. Crowds were 10 deep on the sidewalks of Market Street. PHOTO GALLERY: Slideshow Of The 43rd Annual San Francisco Pride ParadeĪmong the thousands at the parade, which included 200 groups who participated this year, were scores of teenage girls, opposite-sex couples and families with children. The Supreme Court also gave celebrants one more reason to cheer Sunday when Justice Anthony Kennedy rejected a last-ditch effort by opponents to stop gay marriages in California.
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The weekend's celebration came after the high court on Wednesday announced the dismissal of an appeal in the Proposition 8 case and ruled the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court victories on same-sex marriage. SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP/BCN) - Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in downtown San Francisco to watch the city's 43rd annual Pride Parade on Sunday, and the crowd had even more to celebrate than in previous years: two U.S.