# Same Sex Marriages Recognized

10 June 2003 · Ray Slakinski

Today is a pretty exciting day in Toronto. [The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled](http://www.thetorontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=fc019891e5cb6119&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1052251796383&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154) that the right to marry should be extended to same-sex couples, and City Hall announced that it will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. I think that this is long overdue and I am very happy for everyone out there who, in the past, had not been recognized as married.