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Richard and David Speakman, were pronounced legally wed in a ceremony performed by county Supervisor Ken Yeager.

At a few minutes past 9, Rich and David Speakman of Mountain View both spoke the words, “I thee wed,” inaugurating same-sex marriage in Santa Clara County.

About three times more marriage licenses were given out in Santa Clara County than on an average Tuesday, but there was an unexpected absence of angry confrontations between gay couples and gay-marriage opponents – only a few solitary protesters.

The first, David and Rich Speakman of San Jose, were on final approach to their wedding Monday afternoon – picking up a tux, attending to the countless details of a marriage ceremony.

The couple is using President Bush’s economic stimulus check to pay

This year, we have something that’s really, really, super cool,” said Richard Speakman, chief financial officer for San Jose Pride, the official name of the group organizing weekend events. Same-sex marriage, he said, seems to have injected a new exuberan

Richard and David Speakman were married in 2004 at San Francisco City Hall. They look forward to going through the ceremony one more time knowing that the California Supreme Court has ruled they deserve the same rights as other couples. Richard changed hi

David and Rich Speakman of Mountain View will be the first in line at 8:30 a.m. Supervisor Ken Yeager, himself a gay man who was just this week deputized to conduct marriages, will officiate.

Brain scans of 90 volunteers showed that the brains of heterosexual men and homosexual women were slightly asymmetric with the right hemisphere slightly larger than the left, Ivanka Savic and Pers Lindstrom wrote. The brains of gay men and heterosexual wo

at least one vendor hasn’t gotten the message.
At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House.