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Be gay, be anything -- just not single!

With same-sex marriage now legal in California, mothers across India and elsewhere are eager to see their gay sons and daughters finally get hitched.

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  • Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:36 PM

    From the California litigation

    One of the powerful declarations submitted to the San Francisco Superior Court in the first stage of the California litigation was not from a gay or lesbian persion but from a mother -- Chinese-American, I think -- who expressed feelings like this. The gist was "my friends don't know what a civil union is. They've never heard of domestic partnership. I want to tell them my daughter is married."

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