18 Jun 2019

BBC Witness

From Afternoons, 3:30 pm on 18 June 2019

Back to the 1970's and a gay wedding in the United States which took place long before same sex marriage became legal in the USA. Claire Bowes of the BBC World Service history programme 'Witness' recalls that it happened when a gay couple from Minnesota were issued a marriage licence and found a Christian minister willing to hold a wedding ceremony for them.

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