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West Hollywood to honor marriages with plaque

The Los Angeles Times reports that a plaque honoring same-sex marriages will be installed in a park in West Hollywood.

The plaque will be unveiled at a City Council meeting on Sept. 8 and installed at West Hollywood Park off North San Vicente Boulevard. The park was the site of same-sex weddings on June 17, 2008, the first full day that the marriages were allowed. The legal weddings ended in November 2008 after the passage of Prop 8.

The bronze marker will be inscribed with a Nelson Mandela quote: "I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."