Amsterdam celebrates 25 years since the world’s first same-sex weddings

Mihaela Chircă

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Dutch capital marked the 25th anniversary of the world’s first gay marriages with three same-sex couples tying the knot at City Hall early Wednesday. The celebration, conducted by Mayor Femke Halsema just after midnight, came a quarter of a century after one of her predecessors, Job Cohen, married four couples in a landmark ceremony for LGBTQ+ rights that paved the way for similar legislation in nearly 40 countries around the world. Same-sex weddings are commonplace now in

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