SF MAYOR CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY OF GAY WEDDINGS: From the Associated Press

A year after he made San Francisco a bull's-eye in the national debate over gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to mark the first anniversary of the city's "Winter of Love" with a show of defiance on the issue that, for better or worse, has defined his political career.

The Democratic mayor has invited the nearly 8,000 gays and lesbians from across the country who accepted his offer to get married in San Francisco last year to a Feb. 12 reception at City Hall, where he'll give a speech that calls for regaining the momentum of those heady days. He'll give a similar gay rights address at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government on Tuesday. ...

Newsom was only five weeks into his first term when he told his staff to begin sanctioning same-sex marriages on Feb. 12, 2004, the day gay activists observe each year as "Freedom to Marry Day" by showing up at county clerk's offices to make symbolic requests for marriage licenses.

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