Baxter Brooke (far left) looks on as her partner Sonia Hendrickson sheds a tear of joy. Sasha Hartman and her partner, Alex Fennell (far right), along with other same-sex couples, listen to a speaker during the Cambridge mayor's champagne and cake party Sunday night, May 16, 2004. The party took place before the Cambridge, Mass., city clerk's office opened at midnight for couples to apply for marriage licenses.