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WATCH: Prop. 8 Plaintiffs Stier and Perry Marry

WATCH: Prop. 8 Plaintiffs Stier and Perry Marry

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Sandy Stier and Kris Perry married at San Francisco City Hall today.

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Cheers went up throughout San Francisco City Hall when Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, plaintiffs in the case that brought down California's Proposition 8, were married there today.

California attorney general Kamala Harris performed the ceremony and pronounced the Berkeley couple "spouses for life" shortly before 5 p.m., with one of their twin sons serving as ring bearer. The other plaintiffs in the suit, Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo of Burbank, were to be married at 6:15 p.m. at Los Angeles City Hall.

The weddings became possible after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order today allowing marriage licenses to be granted to same-sex couples immediately, instead of there being a 25-day wait after the Wednesday U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down the proposition, which amended California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

"By joining the case against Proposition 8, they represented thousands of couples like themselves in their fight for marriage equality," Harris said during Stier and Perry's ceremony. "Through the ups and downs, the struggles and the triumphs, they came out victorious."

Watch video of the ceremony below.

See more photos from the ceremony on the following pages.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.