I know I had to get out my hanky just reading about it.

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon made history – again – at 5:07 p.m. Monday when they were declared “spouses for life.”

At that moment, standing next to each other in the mayor’s office in San Francisco City Hall in front of cheering friends and relatives, the couple of 55 years became the first same-sex newlyweds in San Francisco and among the first in California under a new right bestowed by the state Supreme Court.

In a now-famous speech from 1995, Hillary Clinton said “Women’s rights are human rights.” Verily, I say, gay rights are human rights, too, and few people alive have done more for both than Del and Phyllis.

I am so happy for these heroines that gay marriage has been legalized in their lifetimes.

[tags]gay marriage, human rights[/tags]