After decades-long legal battle, gay couple's 1971 marriage officially recognized. They are now thought to be the longest-married, same-sex couple in the US. - NBCOUT
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Because Minnesota’s marriage statute did not explicitly state that two people of the same sex could not get married, the license was valid as far as they were concerned. But after it was revealed that “Pat Lyn” was male, the couple recalled, the county attorney instructed the clerk not to officially record it. With no proof of marriage, the McConnells explained, they could not collect Social Security spousal benefits, even after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.
“This just simply proves that the first same-sex marriage ever recorded in the public files of any civil government anywhere in the world happened in Minnesota,” Jack McConnell said.“The Wedding Heard ’Round the World: America’s First Gay Marriage,” exchanged vows during a small ceremony at a friend’s home in Minneapolis in September 1971.Same-sex marriage was later legalized — first in Minnesota in 2013, and two years later across the U.S. by the Supreme Court.
The McConnells received the Social Security Administration’s letter just days after Valentine’s Day. Michael McConnell said they celebrated the way they always do. “We had a glass of champagne and smiled a lot, and then we watched a movie,” he said.
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