PHOTO: The first same-sex marriage legally recognized by Germany was included in a miscellaneous list of news items from Europe in the print edition of Businessweek magazine dated Oct. 9, 2017, p. 9, which I could not find posted in their free online businessweek.com site. See story by Reuters Staff, "First "I do" as same-sex marriage comes to Germany," reuters.com posted Sep. 30, 2017, which says, "Same-sex couple Karl Kreil and Bodo Mende get married at a civil registry office, becoming Germany's first married gay couple after German parliament approved marriage equality in a historic vote this past summer, in Berlin, Germany October 1, 2017."
See previous posts:
- Book by Michael McConnell on his marriage to Jack Baker that led to the first Supreme Court case on gay marriage (12/29/15) -- America's first gay marriage that started a global movement
- James Burton Nichols recalls invention of polyester and nylon at DuPont by Elmer Kraemer and Wallace Carothers (8/15/15) -- i am sure that my German Grandfather would have supported same-sex marriage because it was the "logical" to his scientist brain.
- OSU Foundation Magnus Hirschfeld Fund Agreement (1/4/12) -- a research fund I started in honor of a German pioneer in gay studies and also in memory of my German grandfather.