May 18, 1970 – “Jack Baker and Michael McConnell applied for a marriage license in Minneapolis. They were the first American same-sex couple to seek a marriage license and the first such couple to establish a legal relationship through adult adoption. The [Hennepin County] Clerk of Court denied them a license. They sued and lost in District Court, appealed and lost in the Minnesota Supreme Court, and appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which dismissed the case for want of a substantial federal question. The case opinion, Baker v. Nelson, has been frequently cited as precedent in various same-sex marriage cases since then.”
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