AMSTERDAM (AP) \u2014 Wearing rainbow flags, sequins and sometimes hardly anything at all, dozens of people lined up in a pink church at Amsterdam\u2019s Pride festival on Thursday to get married, or at least married for the day.<\/p>\n
The Married For A Day event was part of the annual event\u2019s celebration of marriage, held a short walk away from where the world\u2019s first legalized same-sex unions took place 25 years ago.<\/p>\n
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