Washington Post tracks how the movement began
(NEWSER) - The quest for marriage equality didn't begin in some libertine den in New York or California, it began in Norman, Oklahoma, way back in 1966. In the wake of President Obama's landmark declaration of support for same-sex marriage this week, the Washington Post looked back on the history of the movement, tracing it to that small college town, where Air Force veteran Jack Baker and librarian Michael McConnell became a couple. In 1970, they applied for a marriage license in Minnesota, the first recorded case of a gay couple asking to be legally married. More»
