On this Date in Minnesota History: August 3

August 3, 1971 – After being turned down for a same-sex marriage license by Hennepin County, the District Court, the Minnesota Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, Jack Baker and James Michael McConnell “established a legal relationship through adult adoption. This was possibly the first adult adoption by one member of a same-sex couple of the other.”

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Jack Baker (born Richard John Baker) and James Michael McConnell apply for 

a marriage license in Minneapolis on May 18, 1970.

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