The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry.
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“She said: Dad, the years to e, my generatn will look back and judge your generatn about how you al wh the issue of homosexualy the same way that your generatn nsired your parents’ generatn the way that they alt wh our digeno people, ” Wallace said.
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Fightg back tears, Liberal MP Sarah Henrson told the story Wednday night of a close gay iend of hers who died months ago and who, one of their last nversatns, asked her to ntue to ph for same-sex marriage.
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7, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — Atralia’s Parliament voted overwhelmgly to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, overg years of nservative ristance to enact change that the public had ma clear that fal approval the Hoe of Reprentativ, wh jt four vot agast the bill, me three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong public support for gay marriage.
Turnbull noted that nothg the legislatn requir misters or other celebrants to oversee weddgs of gay upl or threatens the chary stat of relig groups that oppose same-sex marriage, two ncerns the lawmakers had fal bate the Hoe of Reprentativ, which lasted four days, featured more than 100 the first day, there was a marriage proposal: Tim Wilson, a gay member of Parliament wh the center-right Liberal Party, spoke of the stggl he and his partner, Ryan Bolger, had enuntered as a uple, before chokg up, fdg him the public gallery and askg: “Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me? ”For many lawmakers and gay-rights advot workg behd the scen, the bate took on the feel of a munal reckong wh Atralia’s long history of one pot, Adam Bandt, a Greens Party lawmaker om Melbourne, psed for a moment of silence after referrg to the “nocent blood” of gay Atralians who were hurt durg the long battle for marriage Shorten, lear of the opposn Labor Party, asked for fivens “for the long lay, for the jtic and the digni both great and small.
“The nversatn around marriage equaly was beg domated by those who were agast , ” said Tristan Meecham, the artistic director of the performance pany All the Queens Men and the founr of the Comg Back Out Ball, meant to enurage olr gay Atralians not to return to the out of the discsn, he add, were issu that go beyond marriage, such as the way olr men and women al wh earlier trmas tied to prejudice and gay bashg, or suici among teenagers alg wh issu of genr and sexualy.