Boulder issues the first same-sex marriage licenses in the country
Boulder County Courthouse, Pearl Street, Boulder, Colorado
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Paul Sableman · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
County clerk Clela Rorex read the Colorado marriage statute in 1975, found nothing in it that named a husband and a wife, and issued licences to six same-sex couples at this counter. The state attorney general told her to stop within weeks and the licences were later treated as void. The 1933 courthouse was named a National Historic Landmark in 2024 for being the first place in the United States where those licences were issued.
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