Mike McConnell was a gay rights activist from Minnesota who advocated for gay marriage rights after being fired from his job as a university librarian for being gay. He and his partner Jack Baker are cited as the first same sex couple to be legally married in the United States in August of 1971.
| Names |
Michael McConnell (Main)
BE [n72.21] James Michael McConnell (altName) BE [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/the-same-sex-couple-who-got-a-marriage-license-in-1971.html?_r=0(http://goo.gl/dxifSV)] |
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| Related Pages | https://lglc.ca/person/MMCC/ |
| Birth Date | 1942 |
| Birth Place | https://lglc.ca/place/[OK]/ |
| Identities |
Homosexual
BG [n72.21] Christian - Methodist YYYY-MM-DD - YYYY-MM-DD L [http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23159390(http://goo.gl/HtBwWP)] AmericanBG [n72.21] |
| Occupations |
Librarian
- 1972/01/28
https://lglc.ca/event/n72.21 |
| Associated People |
https://lglc.ca/person/JBAK/
(Partners) Personal Romantic notAfter(1967) Erik Eckholm, “The Same-Sex Couple Who Got a Marriage License in 1971,” New York Times, 16 May 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/the-same-sex-couple-who-got-a-marriage-license-in-1971.html https://lglc.ca/person/JBAK/(Partners) Personal Romantic notAfter(1967) BCDF [Erik Eckholm, “The Same-Sex Couple Who Got a Marriage License in 1971,” New York Times, 16 May 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/the-same-sex-couple-who-got-a-marriage-license-in-1971.html] |