This gay couple found a legal loophole to marry way back in 1971

Jack and Michael McConnell, the first same-sex couple to be legally married (Photo: Pete Hohn/Star Tribune via Getty)

Long before the push for marriage equality truly began, before Obergefell v Hodges, before the Defense of Marriage Act, there was Jack and Michael McConnell.

This year Jack and Michael will celebrate 51 years of happy marriage, making them longest-wed…