Michael Stark, left, and Michael Leshner kiss after their marriage in Superior Court in Toronto on Tuesday, June 10, 2003.
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Gay couple celebrates wedding anniversary

Michael Stark and Michael Leshner are celebrating 10 years since they became the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Canada. The two got married in Toronto just hours after a court in the province of Ontario pronounced the Canadian law on traditional marriage unconstitutional.

Two years later the Canadian government legalized same-sex marriage nationwide with the gender-neutral Civil Marriage Act.

Leshner said the court ruling brought him and his husband full equality and “drove the stake through the heart of legalized homophobia.”

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