Tanya Chambers (back left) and Melinda Roy and Lloyd Thornhill (front left) and Bob Peacock laugh at a joke during a press conference at a Vancouver, B.C. law office after the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned an earlier decision banning same sex marriages, Thursday, May 1, 2003. Chambers and Roy, who have been together for eight years, and Thornhill and Peacock, who have been a couple for almost 35 years, are two of eight couples who challenged the law. (CP PHOTO/Richard Lam)