Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    When Gavin Newsom issued marriage licenses in San Francisco, his party was furious. Now, it's a campaign ad

    by Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times May 16, 2018 5 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - It was an iconic image: Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin, longtime partners and lesbian activists, embracing after being wed in San Francisco City Hall. The first same-sex couple in the country to receive a marriage license was joined by city officials and advocates choked with emotion - but not the man who set their nuptials in motion, Gavin Newsom.

    Instead, the then-San Francisco mayor was purposefully absent, sitting in his office and anxiously awaiting word that the ceremony had been performed before a court could interfere.

    Newsom's decision to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples - just a month into his term - was at once slapdash and choreographed. Almost immediately it spun out of his control. What was meant to be a short-lived act of civil disobedience on Feb. 12,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times2 min read
    Editorial: Biden Expanded Two National Monuments In California. Three More To Go
    President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment. One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, ad
    Los Angeles Times4 min read
    Commentary: My Mother Set Herself On Fire. Why Do People Choose To Self-immolate?
    Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were just blocks from the University of Michigan campu
    Los Angeles Times3 min readCrime & Violence
    UCLA Detectives Use Jan. 6 Tactics To Find Masked Mob Who Attacked Pro-Palestinian Camp
    LOS ANGELES — It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week. The mob violence was captured on live

    Related Books & Audiobooks