Two Grooms Wedding Cake Toppers
date: label: date made
content: ca 2008
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: These wedding cake toppers were used at the wedding celebration of David DeFelice and Paul Scherbak. Gay marriage was legalized June 16, 2008 in the state of California. David and Paul decided to get married before the November election with its Proposition 8 referendum 9 that threatened to limit marriage to opposite sex couples. David and Paul were married June 27, 2008 in San Francisco, California, eleven days after gay marriage had been legalized. In the November 2008 election, Proposition 8 referendum 9 was passed and gay couples no longer had the right to a legal marriage.
place: label: used
content: United States: California, San Francisco
topic: label: referenced
content: Gay Rights
label: classified
content: Marriage
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ Rights
label: Subject
content: LGBTQ
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David DeFelice and Paul Scherbak
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0115.01AB
label: accession number
content: 2010.0115
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0115.01AB
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cake toppers
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: resin (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in x 1 in; 12.065 cm x 3.81 cm x 2.54 cm