Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

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• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• FOR GAY UPL ALABAMA, ’S ‘ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK,’ SAY WOMEN WHO SUED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Kay Ivey for her several years a few nservative probate judg Alabama have refed to issue marriage licens to anyone so they don't have to issue them to gay and lbian Hoe of Reprentativ voted 67-26 for the bill that would replace marriage licens wh a new form lled a marriage certifite.

Greg Albrton, the sponsor of the bill, said he proposed the change so people n obta marriage documents every Neil Rafferty, the only openly gay member of the Hoe, said the proposal was "born out of prejudice. Current Alabama law says probate judg "may" issue marriage, but don't force them to do same-sex upl obtaed the legal right to marry, about a half dozen of Alabama's 68 probate judg cled to issue licens so they would not have to give them to gay W Allen, a Republin om Pike County, was one of the judg who ma that cisn. Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr.

Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003. California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

FOR GAY UPL ALABAMA, ’S ‘ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK,’ SAY WOMEN WHO SUED FOR MARRIAGE EQUALY

On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote. Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts. Gay Marriage by State.

Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn. Below are the stat that have legalized gay marriage the orr which they legalized.