
Lesbian activist Del Martin died on Wednesday, just two months after marrying her partner of 55 years in one of the first legally recognized California same-sex weddings.
Martin, 87, who wed Phyllis Lyon, 83, in San Francisco's City Hall in June, died of natural causes at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center on Wednesday morning, the National Center for Lesbian Rights said.
The same-sex couple also had been the first in California to marry in San Francisco's 2004 "Winter of Love," when Mayor Gavin Newsom opened the door to gay marriage.
Society is changing.
It is very few of us who live long enough to experience the rewards of a lifetime of tilting at windmills.
Good for her and her partner.
It is sad... Not so much that she passed away, but that when someone dies, their love is missed. These two loved each other like anyone else.
I am happy for them that they could... and did.
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