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The Dutch went first in 2001; who has same-sex marriage now?

by David CraryMike Corder
| April 3, 2021 12:03 AM

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Twenty years ago, just after the stroke of midnight on April 1, the mayor of Amsterdam married four couples in City Hall as the Netherlands became the first country in the world with legalized same-sex marriages.

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