Bruce Deachman writes about Renée Sauvé and Tracey Braun, who made history on June 11, 2003.
Oh, and let’s not forget: Theirs was also the first legal wedding of a same-sex couple in Ottawa.
“We don’t count this as our wedding anniversary,” Braun says of the June 11 date. “We count this as the time when the rest of the country caught up.” “There was dead silence in the room,” Sauvé recalls, “and they all looked at me with puzzled looks on their faces, like ‘You don’tMeanwhile, when members of the media who had shown up at city hall asked them when they were actually planning on getting married, the couple, who hadn’t yet talked with one other about that part, let alone planned anything, blurted out that they’d do it at lunch that day.
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