SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Getting married brought big changes to the lives of author Helen Zia and her partner Lia Shigemura.
At family reunions, funerals and other gatherings, the Oakland couple found their relationship much more accepted after their parents could start saying they had a daughter-in-law.
"My mother, an immigrant from China, she really doesn’t get what ‘partner’ is," Zia, 57, testified Friday during the fifth day of a federal civil trial challenging California’s same-sex marriage ban.
"Marriage made it very clear that I was family, that we were family, and I was where I belonged," she said.
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