In a historic first that took place on April 1, 2001, four Dutch same-sex couples were legally wed in the Netherlands. Today, those couples — including Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker — are celebrating that historic wedding anniversary.
Reuters reported that Kasteel and Pasker, as well as two other same-sex couples married that night, celebrated their 20th anniversaries in small groups or at home due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing the gathering of large crowds. (A fourth couple was married that night as well, but one of the men died of a heart attack in 2011.)
In an interview with Reuters, Kasteel and Pasker looked back on their historic nuptials and how the world has changed in the past two decades.
