Robin Tyler and Diane Olson are
divorcing after nearly 4 years of marriage, The
Daily reported.
The women were one of the 14 original
gay couples involved in the landmark California Supreme Court lawsuit
that opened gay marriage in the state for a brief five months in
2008. A voter-approved referendum, Proposition 8, overturned the
court's ruling.
“It's a divorce, not a gay divorce,”
the 69-year-old Tyler said. “We had a very successful, happy
relationship for a long time.”
“I'm very sad. We were domestic
partners for six years now because we never dissolved it after we got
married. We were in a relationship for almost 18 years and before
that we were friends for 20 years. So this isn't some sort of Kim
Kardashian thing,” she said, referring to the reality star's brief
72-day marriage.
The couple's fight for the right to
marry was documented in the film Annul Victory. (A trailer
for the film is embedded in the right panel of this page. Visit
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Tyler said that she filed for a divorce
on January 25th and that the women had separated.
Proposition 8 ended marriage equality
in California, but the 18,000 couples who married before the
amendment's passage remain married.
“I am really glad we fought for it, I
don't regret it and I don't regret my marriage,” Tyler added.
“It's a civil right to get married, and we have the right to get
divorced.”