Proposition (h)8: A Photo Essay

(Robin Tyler and Diane Olson are married at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, Monday, June 16, 2008, in Beverly Hills, Calif. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

Bravo to Minstrel Boy for the post right before this one, outlining Gloria Allred's excellent legal challenge to California's passage of Proposition 8. Her clients in this case, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, were among the first lesbian couples married in Los Angeles on June 16, 2008. Robin Tyler has been an on-the-front-lines activist and comedian for lesbians for decades now, and I'm not surprised she's leading this fight as well. One of our generations' heras.

On June 17, at my blog I published a post Old Dykes Getting Married which included a series of AP photos from Robin and Diane's wedding. I'm copying them in here to share with you images which made me cry, and which take this battle from the abstract to the very, very personal. Bravo, Robin and Diane. And bravo to allies like Minstrel Boy, all of those at Group News Blog, and all the folks across the country who Get It. We are indeed your kin.













(All photos from AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)