Thursday, August 1, 2019

On This Date in Minnesota History: August 1

August 1, 2013 – The first same-sex marriages in the state of Minnesota took place on this date. As he promised after Gov. Dayton signed the marriage equality act into law on May 14, 2013, Minneapolis Mayor R. T. Rybeck officiated at 46 marriages in the City Hall Rotunda beginning around 12:01 a.m. and ending around 6:45 a.m.1  “An additional 21 couples [were] married by Hennepin County judges in the city council chambers.”2

In St. Paul, same-sex couples were married in Como Park Conservatory’s Sunken Garden and Irvine Park.2


Como Park Conservatory’s Sunken Garden4

At a sunrise ceremony in Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park’s Rose Garden, Mayor Don Ness  officiated at the marriage of Tim Robinson and Gary Lundstrom, a couple together for 23 years.3


Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park’s Rose Garden5

1http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1033963/14/Wedding-blitz-brings-same-sex-marriage-to-MN
2http://www.twincities.com/life/ci_23773382/gay-marriages-underway-minnesota
3StarTribune; “A quiet Day 1 for gay marriage outstate;” Minneapolis, Minn.; pp. A1 & A8.
4https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Como_Park_Zoo_and_Conservatory

5http://www.sunshinenomads.com/2012/09/duluth-minnesota-rose-garden-park-on.html
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