International correspondent, Rex Wockner, looks back at the first same-sex marriages in the world, a decade ago on Friday…
It was 10 years ago this coming Friday that the Netherlands became the first nation in the world to let same-sex couples marry.
Now same-sex marriage is legal in 12 nations, including in five U.S. states and the District of Columbia. I was there for the first Dutch gay weddings. The following five paragraphs are from my story filed April 1, 2001, from Amsterdam:
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