Sad, sad news: GLBT activist Del Martin (far right), who was part of the first couple to legally wed in California in June, has died at the age of 87.

Martin was born in 1921, studied journalism at Berkeley, married, had a daughter and divorced before she met the love of her life, Phyllis Lyon (left), in 1950. The couple married in San Francisco when marriage was briefly legalized there in 2004, and were the first couple to marry in California in June after the CA Supreme Court OK'ed gay marriage.

My first reaction on hearing her death was immediate sorrow that she only got to enjoy three months of marriage this time around with her partner of 58 years. But at least she lived to see it.

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