after that night in washington, d.c., the city clerk issued a marriage license to del martin and phyllis lyon. the floodgates were opened. nearly 1,000 same-sex couples were married in the first 3 days. gavin: every day, i'd be at the office, looking outside and hearing--just for me, it was the sounds. just all of a sudden, an eruption of people applauding strangers. i started crying right away. i ran back in. this little girl grabbed me. the rest of my life, i'll never forget. this, like, 12 year-old girl grabbing me. i'm looking around and i look down, there she is and she's crying. and she says, "thank you for giving me two mommies." the opposition came quickly and from all over the political spectrum. harry: he was beaten down. he was attacked. that's always the case. david: and he stood up to the democratic party and they hated him for it. the powers that be, they thought he was splitting the party. gavin: 'cause i had schwarzenegger on "meet the press," you know, "gavin's out there, people marrying. there's chaos." peter: and from inside his own family. gavin: yeah, my father was not pl

history would not have come were it not for the first marriage, the wonderful dell martin and phyllis lyons. [ applause ] >> and then again, the thousands of other couples that we have had shared opportunity to marry and to be part of their marriage performed in this very building since 2004 and again in 2008. yes, i want to say thank you to my predecessors, gavin newsom! [ applause and cheers ] >> i want to say thank you to willie brown when he was working at the state. >> thank you to art agnos when we was mayor and he did work. lita pelosi our city attorney dennis herrera all his wonderful work. [ applause and cheers ] >> senator mark leno! >> whoo! >> thank you for your leadership. supervisors weinerer in and campos thank you for your leadership. i'm so glad that we can have this moment. and i want to introduce someone who has been working tirelessly whose heart has always been with people, been there, constantly advised us at city hall about what can and should happen. what can possibly happen. and we enjoyed a moment this morning where we talked about how lucky it would be to be a law