Baker v. Nelson: The 1971 Minnesota Story Behind America's First Same-Sex Marriage
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In the spring of 1970, law student and Air Force veteran Jack Baker made a startling discovery in the stacks of the University of Minnesota law library: Minnesota’s marriage statute contained no explicit requirement that marriage be between a man and a woman. Armed with strict textual precision, Baker and his partner, librarian candidate Michael McConnell, stepped up to the Hennepin County Courthouse counter with a ten-dollar application fee, demanding that a changing nation live up to its promise of equal civil standing. On this episode of Pionerd: The Minnesota Edition…
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