snapshots:

Two days before Valentine's Day, a lesbian couple who had been together for 50 years quietly entered San Francisco City Hall and exchanged marriage vows. And so it began.

Just this morning I said to people this is the happiest place on earth. You don't have to go Disneyland to see happiness

This is an unstoppable movement that the mayor started, and I have confidence we will eventually reach our goal... I knew there would be some setbacks, but there always are with civil rights movements

This is the cusp of a cultural revolution... We are strong and our convictions are righteous. We expect resistance and we will prevail

I'm thankful that so many thousands of couples have come from all over the country and around the world to San Francisco to be given the same rights and privileges and obligations that my wife and me have been afforded over the two years that we have had the privileges of marriage

Every civil rights movement has its good days and its bad days.... This is new for the citizens of the country, for the legislatures and for the courts, and it's going to be some time before we recognize full equality.... It will have to be a part of many processes, many ballot booths and many court hearings before this issue gets resolved. It's only been several months since California passed comprehensive domestic partnership legislation, only several months since the sodomy ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court... Today's ruling was a small setback, but also leaves the process, which I think is determined already that history is going to see great movement in the next couple years.

We are married. This is my wife. No one can take that away from us... It wouldn't occur to me to be devastated. This is just a step in the path. This is what civil rights looks like. This has been one of the most amazing, incredible experiences of my life.

We've both been wondering at what point are they going to stop this so we have to get in the streets... This is the point. But we're going to keep doing this until we break through all the doors to get to our freedom

We've been together for 25 years, and I'm tired of waiting for equal rights

Count me as a love soldier