# Elton John - the first man to legally marry a woman and a man?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-the-first-man-to-legally-marry-a-woman-and-a-man/338381 "2006-01-04T10:30:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-the-first-man-to-legally-marry-a-woman-and-a-man/338381/1 "2006-01-04T10:30:55Z")

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The title says it all really. Someone asked this yesterday. As far as I can tell the answer seems to be yes.

I thought perhaps a transsexual had been able to remarry but haven’t been able to find one. I’m sure some Doper will know off the top of their head.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-the-first-man-to-legally-marry-a-woman-and-a-man/338381/2 "2006-01-04T11:00:19Z")

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Nowhere near.

Hell, I know a same-sex couple who had one of the celebrants’ opposite-sexed ex stand up for one of the grooms, and I’m about the least cosmopolitan person you could ever hope to meet.

Given the sheer number of same-sex marriages that have been recognized, it stands to reason that a plurality of them involve people who have been previously married to someone of the opposite sex. After all, those sorts of marriages aren’t terribly uncommon.

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-the-first-man-to-legally-marry-a-woman-and-a-man/338381/3 "2006-01-04T14:49:07Z")

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Yeah, Elton wasn’t even close to being the first. After Canada started legalizing SSM former Kid in The Hall Scott Thompson had a TV show in which he planned weddings for same-sex couples (retitled for American TV “First Comes Love”). A number of the men on his show had previously been married to women.

As i understand it, England doesn’t have same-sex “marriage” anyway, they have “civil partnerships.”

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**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elton-john-the-first-man-to-legally-marry-a-woman-and-a-man/338381/4 "2006-01-04T15:17:01Z")

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> [@Otto](#):
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> As i understand it, England doesn’t have same-sex “marriage” anyway, they have “civil partnerships.”

That’s what I thought. Isn’t Elton raising a lot of stink over not being able to pass his estate down to his man-spouse without it being taxed to hell and back because it’s not “officially” a marraige in the eyes of the British court system?