Gay son of slain San Francisco mayor Moscone marries at City Hall
Jonathan Moscone, son of San Francisco mayor George Moscone who was assassinated in 1978 alongside Harvey Milk, has married partner Darryl Carbonaro at the city hall where his father served and died
12 NOVEMBER 2013 | BY ANDREW POTTS
The openly gay son of the San Francisco mayor murdered alongside gay political pioneer Harvey Milk has been married at the City Hall where they were slain by another former mayor of the city - Willie Brown.
Brown is a family friend of Jonathan Moscone – the son of murdered San Francisco mayor George Moscone – and was married Friday to partner of one year Darryl Carbonaro.
Moscone, 49, is the artistic director of the California Shakespeare Theater in Berkeley and Carbonaro, 46, is the associate general counsel for Clean Power Finance.
Their wedding was conducted on the Mayoral Balcony of San Francisco's City Hall by Brown in front of 80 guests.
The couple reportedly met online in November last year. Two days after their first date at a bar they met again for dinner and they have been together ever since.
In 2011 Jonathan Moscone directed a play about his father’s assassination and its effect on his life called ‘Ghost Light’ which had been written by friend Tony Taccone.
He told the New York Times that directing the play had helped him reconcile some of his feelings about his father’s murder.
‘The play became about wishing him back,’ Moscone told the newspaper, ‘After living for years without even thinking about him. And I think the not thinking about someone is a way of not missing them.’
Moscone was killed by former San Francisco city supervisor Dan White on November 27, 1978, after he refused to allow him to rescind his resignation from the City Board of Supervisors.
White then went into the office of pioneering gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk and shot him too.
What appeared to be lenient treatment of the murders and White sparked San Francisco’s White Night Riots a year later. (**My note: Dan White and the "Twinkie Defense" at his trial).
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