In the presence of San Francisco's county clerk Edwin Lee, during the first legal same-sex marriage ceremony at San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California, Octogenarian Phyllis Lyon (standing - 2nd left), watches her partner, Del Martin (bottom), sign their gay-marriage certificate.
The first gay couple in recorded history lived in Ancient Egypt in the year 2400 B.C.
Two male royal manicurists named Niamkhkhnum and Khnumhotep were found buried together in a shared room similar to the way married couples were often buried, along with hieroglyphs combining their names to say "joined in death and joined in life".
Strangely enough as well, Niamkhkhnum did have a wife, but in most of the artwork in the tomb, she has been replaced with his lover.
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