In this week's issue:
Daffodil J. Altan follows Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel Chavez on their wedding day in "Eat Drink and Be Gay Married: After 27 years together, one couple finally has its big, fat, Mexican, recovering-drug-addict, HIV-positive, ex-transgender gay wedding"
Rich Kane offers some from the scene perspective on the gay weddings in "We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Registered at Crate & Barrel: Notes from a gayer-than-usual Tuesday at the old courthouse in Santa Ana"
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Happier times: Alfonso and Manuel on the eve of their wedding last year. Today's state Supreme Court ruling on Prop. 8, which upholds a ban on same-sex marriage, was bittersweet
(but mostly bitter) news for Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel "Bibys" Chavez, the loving duo we profiled last year, and the first Latino couple to legally marry in the county on the morning of June 17, 2008.They and 18,000 other couples
will get to stay married (a move the couple sees as progress for the
overall cause, despit