US location that issued same-sex marriage licenses in 1975 earns landmark status

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Do you know when and where the first same-sex marriage licenses were issued in the US?

Although Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004, a handful of country clerks had issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples before this time. 

The one that propelled same-sex marriage into the headlines was Boulder County Courthouse in Colorado. In 1975, the new county clerk, Clela Rorex, then 31, issued a marriage license to a same-sex couple named Dave McCord and Dave Zamora. She did so after checking the state’s legislature that there wasn’t a specific law banning her from doing so.  

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