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In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the urt led, 5-4, that the Constutn guarante a right to same-sex marriage.

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HAPPY GAY PRI WEEK! ALL THE VICTORI WE’RE CELEBRATG THIS YEAR

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By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged. As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W.

Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori. It was a cisn s the makg, gog back to a 1970s Supreme Court se, legal battl Hawaii the 1990s that almost allowed same-sex marriage the state, and a urt cisn Massachetts that ma that state the first to let gay and lbian upl marry.

So the first step advancg trans rights the US is tg the public on the basics and exposg Amerins to trans people — siar to how TV shows and g-out mpaigns helped gay, lbian, and bisexual Amerins show other people that they are by and large jt like anyone else and should be allowed to marry.

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