Monday marks a major Bay Area milestone.
Twenty years ago, San Francisco started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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WATCH HEREThe city and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom defied federal and state laws, and over the next month more than 4,000 marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples.
Those unions were eventually nullified.
But 11 years later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriages should be federally recognized.
To this day some fear a conservative high court may one day revisit the issue and overturn the law in the same way abortion access was reversed.
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