The Netherlands celebrat 20 years of gay marriage

This was the world's first legal same-sex weddgDate: April 1, 2001Dutch uple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker ma historywhen they married on April 1st, 2001Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, GERT KASTEEL AND DOLF PASKER, SAYING:KASTEEL: "All the square was filled wh..."PASKER: "Cameras and journalists."JOURNALIST: "How did you feel?"KASTEEL: "Happy, very happy."PASKER: "A b nervo."KASTEEL: "No!"PASKER: "A ltle b."KASTEEL: "Maybe."Lotn: Wep, NetherlandsThe Netherlands was the first untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage 2001It's now legal nearly 30 natns(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE HALF OF ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, DOLF PASKER, SAYING:"It's nicer to say to other people: "He's my hband, he's my man." And 's natural to say so, otherwise I have to say, "He's my partner' or "He's my iend." And has also helped me to accept myself."Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER EDITOR OF DUTCH GAY MAGAZINE 'GAY KRANT', NOW LAWMAKER, HENK KROL, SAYING:"Well helped a lot bee I was workg parliament, so I knew all the key figur. // And then, at that moment, everybody the Netherlands said to me 'The Netherlands will be the first and the last untry, the rt of the world won't follow you'. And you see what is happeng right now, almost 30 untri the whole world followed the Dutch example. And I uld tell about Taiwan, Canada, South Ai, Ameri, Spa and 's so good to see that almost every civilized untry followed the Dutch way."