That once-dark sentiment was understood by the upwards of 750,000 people who paraded down Market Street and mobbed the Civic Center Plaza all day Sunday. “After dealing with all the bigotry and all the hatred all these years, I never felt validated.” “For the first time in my life, I felt like I was normal and I’ve never felt that,” Mazar said. Nicole Mazar, a Department of Homeland Security employee who lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, said she now “walks 10 feet tall.” Mazar, 59, cried all day Friday after the 5-4 ruling that means California’s equal marriage law is now matched by all 50 states.īut this weekend, she emerged to celebrate. The once-in-a-lifetime significance of this march, on this day, in this city, swelled the crowds and the hearts united in a chant of “Love Wins!” Supreme Court ruling that brought along a jubilance most could have never imagined.
The crowd at the 45th annual SF Pride Celebration and Parade was notably young, confident and still a bit stunned about Friday’s momentous U.S. SAN FRANCISCO - On the steps of the same city hall where California’s first openly gay politician was once gunned down, an estimated million-strong gathering rocked to red-robed gospel singers belting out “Oh Happy Day” in the now legendary birthplace of the LGBT marriage movement, celebrating the miraculous march of history.
