From USA Today Of All Places

Seriously.  The following article appeared in USA Today.  I also heard it on the news while driving to work.  History and the move toward social justice are cause for celebration and it sounds like people celebrated this.
The world is changing.  Forget that this story has been passed to and fro from one source to another so that (possibly) no one has to take credit for reporting it.  The event happened.
So here's the story as told eventually by USA Today.

For the first time,  a lesbian couple today marked a time-honored Navy homecoming tradition in which a sailor is chosen to be the first off the ship to exchange a kiss with a loved one, The Virginian-Pilot reports.
The USS Oak Hill returned to the Navy base at Virginia Beach after almost three months at sea training in Central America.
As homecoming approached, the crew and the ship's family readiness group sold $1 raffle tickets to pick the sailor to be first off the ship to deliver the coveted first kiss on the dock.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta bought 50 tickets and won, the newspaper reports.
Navy officials said it was the first time on record that a same-sex couple was chosen to kiss first upon a ship's return, the Associated Press reports.
Here's how The Virginian-Pilot reported the precedent-shattering event of the post "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" era:
 Her girlfriend of two years, Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell, was waiting. They kissed. The crowd cheered. And with that, another vestige of the policy that forced gays to serve in secrecy vanished.

And here's the couple:

Welcome home, sailor.