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Contents:

• THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU
• AS THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS
• JOHN ROBERTS’ GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT IS WRONG ABOUT POLYGAMY—AND THE CONSTUTN
• END OF ROE THREATENS GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL ACCS: THE 14TH AMENDMENT, EXPLAED
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• WHAT TODAY’S SUPREME COURT CISN MEANS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

THE SUPREME COURT DECLAR GAY MARRIAGE IS A RIGHT

Supreme Court weighs two gay marriage s: a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposn 8; and a challenge to the feral Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which bars feral regnn of same-sex marriag.

After DOMA Rulg, Batnal Gay Coupl Face New Issu. Advot for gay marriage gather outsi the New Jersey Statehoe on Thursday. Gay Marriage Now A State-By-State Battle.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

Judge Vghn Walker stck down California's proposn banng gay marriage 2010. They were the first same-sex uple to marry France after the ernment voted to legalize gay marriage.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Allan Hoyle of North Carola (center) protts gay marriage outsi the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Jtice Anthony Kennedy has now wrten two landmark gay rights cisns. Gay Marriage And The Evolvg Language Of Love.

As embattled, closeted lawyer Andrew Beckett, Tom Hanks brought gay rights to trial 1993's Philalphia.

Hollywood's History Of Puttg Gay Rights On Trial.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

For same-sex upl the 13 stat that didn't prevly regnize gay marriage, the lg will mean major chang some key areas:Adoptn RightsIn the stat where same-sex upl weren't allowed to marry, they often weren't allowed to adopt children together; one parent would do the adoptg, and some s, the send parents' rights were limbo. ) "That's gog to feel amazg, " says Kirsten, who liv wh her wife of six years Geia, where their marriage (performed at Cy Hall New York Cy) wasn't prevly ProtectnIt's gog to be harr to be anti-gay: Most stat, for example, have laws place that bar discrimatn on the grounds of maral stat—but stat didn't prevly regnize gay marriage, those laws didn't apply to same-sex upl. (This was particularly problematic for a sick person wh an anti-gay fay who he may not even have a relatnship wh.

DivorceIn the past, if you lived a state that didn't regnize gay marriage, that state wouldn't grant you a gay divorce. That meant that upl the middle of break-up wouldn't get the benefs of divorce laws, which are meant to protect a uple and their assets as they spl—unls they moved and tablished rincy (which n take months to years) a state that regnized gay marriage. Smh says she do not ndone gay marriag due to Christian beliefs, and she believed the law ged on her rights.

Dce of Charlotte— which a gay substute teacher who was fired after revealg his sexualy onle succsfully sued the school for discrimatn—and the siar Fzgerald v. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA supposed requt for a webse for a same-sex weddg played a mor role a major clash between ee speech and gay rights at the Supreme Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex Jiang for The New York TimAfter the Supreme Court led last week that a Colorado graphic signer has the right to refe to create webs for same-sex marriag, crics of the cisn raised qutns about a form clud urt papers the se that appeared to show that a gay uple had sought the servic of the signer, Lorie man who supposedly submted the form said he was unaware of s existence until a reporter for The New Republic lled him. He is, moreover, straight, married to a woman and a supporter of gay rights.

JUDGE US SUPREME COURT’S GAY WEDDG WEBSE RULG FOR HER OWN ANTI-LGBTQ LAWSU

More about Adam LiptakA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 12 of the New York edn wh the headle: Crics Are Qutng a Seemgly Fake Document a Recent Gay Rights Case. A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said n refe to make weddg webs for gay upl poted durg her lawsu to a requt om a man named “Stewart” and his hband-to-be.

Supreme Court led uld refe to make a weddg webse for gay upl had ced a requt om a man who says he never asked to work wh her. Smh — who did not plan to start creatg weddg webs until her se was rolved — would first have to get a requt om a gay uple and refe, triggerg a possible plat agast her, the state argued. Unsurprisgly, Mchell oppos gay rights and said a Supreme Court brief that Obergefell v.

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 THE SUPREME COURT TARGETS GAY MARRIAGE, WE MT BEE MORE RADIL, NOT LS

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.

JOHN ROBERTS’ GAY MARRIAGE DISSENT IS WRONG ABOUT POLYGAMY—AND THE CONSTUTN

Hodg, the landmark lg that clared gay marriage the law of the land. By the late 70s, HIV had arrived the Uned Stat; by the early ’80s, AIDS began ravagg the Uned Stat’ queer muni, particularly among gay men.

END OF ROE THREATENS GAY MARRIAGE, BIRTH CONTROL ACCS: THE 14TH AMENDMENT, EXPLAED

Gay wrer Edmund Whe lived through this era and spoke no uncerta terms about s impact on queer rights.

AIDS vicly targeted the most polilly radil and sexually revolutnary among gay men, sentially leavg behd wh “dull normals” terted domticy and assiatnism over any semblance of queer radilism. “[Radil queers] were vulnerable precisely bee they were willg to experiment sexually and weren’t hung up on old macho norms, bee they were urban and fearls and proud and promiscuo, ” Whe said Stat of Dire: Travels Gay Ameri. “A whole segment of the gay world—the bravt and most unnventnal—was doomed, along wh untls gay performers and artists.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

And was this meek versn of gay rights, this rabow palism future laid out by the “dull normals, ” that ultimately gave Obergefell.

WHAT TODAY’S SUPREME COURT CISN MEANS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

“In Whe’s view, then, ’s largely bee of the historil pture of AIDS that we have the gay rights disurse of the mid-’90s till the prent day, ” Slate’s J.

“Ours is a moment fed by a strikg amount of cultural amnia and predited on an unrstandg of gayns as a mundane blogil difference whout any cultural ponent to speak of—at least not mixed pany. We put our heart and souls to the fight for gay marriage. And now, the Supreme Court’s nservative jtic are urgently rearchg how to undo gay marriage.

It’s the end rult of assiatnist gay rights, a masochistic, Sisyphean task of small victori wh smaller gas.

THE SUPREME COURT RULGS THAT HAVE SHAPED GAY RIGHTS AMERI

If we phed for gay marriage and clared law of the land, if we tried really hard to assiate to Amerin society, the argument went, we would get a place to ll our own.

When AIDS stck ci like New York Cy and San Fransis, some gays and lbians searched for normalcy. “Elected officials pated gay men as oversexed animals pable of rpondg to the crisis, ” Iona College Profsor Timothy Lyle said as part of his rearch on “digny takg” durg the AIDS Crisis, Bat College reports.

“The [New York Cy] bathhoe closur perpetuated [a narrative of gay] culpabily, igned pretty ser divisns wh the gay and lbian muni, and produced wh gay men, I thk, a ep distst and even fear of ernment—and one another, to be hont. He sets out the moral toll exacted by s of discrimatn agast gay and lbian people and their children. He appreciat that accs to marriage as now exists is as important and relevant to gay and lbian upl as is to straight upl.