Former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, left, escorts longtime gay rights activist Phyllis Lyon, center, to her seat as they celebrate at City Hall in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Lyon and her partner Del Martin, who died in 2008, founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the nation's first lesbian social and political organization, in San Francisco in 1955.The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed California's Proposition 8 and declared the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) ( Staff Photojournalist )