[The Defense of Marriage Act was stck down June 2013, a cisn that allowed cizens of the Uned Stat to marry the person they love regardls of their sexual orientatn. It was an excg day for gay upl who had been hopg to legally tie-the-knot (and an excg day for everyone who believ #loveislove), and we're celebratg wh a pri-filled celebry weddg roundup.]" emprop="scriptn
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
- ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
- STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
- GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
The Supreme Court's cisn to ny appeals for five stat that wanted to ban same-sex marriage opens the door for expansn of gay unns * gay couples getting married *
Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed. Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).
4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.
HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
* gay couples getting married *
Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed. The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage.
And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed. It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time?
ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
A recent Swedish analysis of same-sex unns fds that gays and lbians get married for very different reasons * gay couples getting married *
In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US. 8 Wyomg beme the latt state to legalize gay marriage Tuday after state lawyers filed a legal notice sayg they would not appeal a urt cisn that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
That means gay upl n now marry the state where gay teen Matthew Shepherd was beaten to ath 1998, what beme known as a high-profile hate-crime.
The news after a feral judge stck down Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban Friday, makg Wyomg the latt a seri of urt cisns that have opened the door for gay marriage that state and 12 others this month.
STRAIGHT UPL GET MARRIED EARLIER THAN GAY UPL. HERE'S A LOOK AT WHY.
The cisn to ny appeals signals that the Supreme Court agreed wh lower urts’ lgs that rtrictns on gay marriage were unnstutnal, but the Court did not yet want to make a sweepg lg that appli to all 50 stat.
Colorado, North Carola, and Wt Virgia have already dited they will allow gay upl to marry.
GAYS AND LBIANS HAVE DIFFERENT REASONS TO GET MARRIED, STUDY SAYS
On October 7, a feral urt San Francis clared Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage bans unnstutnal.
12, an Alaska urt overturned the state’s 16-year old nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, allowg same-sex upl to marry for the first time.
Governor Sean Parnell said the state would appeal, but that se would go to the Nth Circu, the same urt that stck down Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage ban. The above map currently shows where gay upl n and n’t get married, as of Oct. Like heterosexuals, many lbian, gay, and bisexual people want to form stable, long-lastg relatnships and many of them do.