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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE AMERI AFTER WDSOR AND OBERGEFELL
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE REMARRIAGE OF EDIE WDSOR, A GAY MARRIAGE PNEER
• U.S. GAY MARRIAGE PNEER EDH WDSOR DI AT 88
• SUPREME COURT BOLSTERS GAY MARRIAGE WH TWO MAJOR RULGS
• EDH WDSOR: “THE GRAN DAME OF GAY RIGHTS”
• EDH WDSOR, WHO HELPED END GAY MARRIAGE BAN, DI AT 88
• THE SUPREME COURT’S BIGGT GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN
• HEROE OF GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT FEELS PRI PROGRS
• EDH WDSOR, IN OF GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, DI AGED 88
• EDH WDSOR, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND PLATIFF IN LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASE, DI

GAY MARRIAGE AMERI AFTER WDSOR AND OBERGEFELL

Further plitg the matter, many sample-based timat not only lack statistil power to measure wh precisn the number or characteristics of smaller populatns, such as the populatn of same-sex upl or gay and lbian dividuals, but also clu measurement errors that pos particular challeng intifyg same-sex upl amidst the much larger populatn of different-sex upl. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

GAY MARRIAGE

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. 2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.

THE REMARRIAGE OF EDIE WDSOR, A GAY MARRIAGE PNEER

Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007. For the first time the untry’s history, voters (rather than judg or legislators) Mae, Maryland, and Washgton approved Constutnal amendments permtg same-sex marriage marriage also beme a feral issue 2010, Massachetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Sectn 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman—to be unnstutnal.

Wdsor, nservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn June this time, was still outlawed only 13 stat, and more than 20 other untri had already legalized gay marriage, startg wh the Netherlands December 2000. 12, 2017Edh Wdsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark se led the Supreme Court to grant same-sex married upl feral regnn for the first time and rights to a host of feral benefs that until then only married heterosexuals had enjoyed, died on Tuday Manhattan. ”The Defense of Marriage Act had been adopted Congrs by wi margs and signed by Print Bill Clton unr the prsur of an electn year, at a time when gay marriage was illegal across the untry and od to lns of strikg down the act’s fn of marriage as a unn of a man and a woman, the Supreme Court validated the entire law and for the first time granted same-sex marriage partners the regnn and benefs acrd married there was a tch.

U.S. GAY MARRIAGE PNEER EDH WDSOR DI AT 88

Wdsor’s round-the-clock 1993, when New York Cy began a domtic partnership registry to extend hog, health surance and other benefs to gays, lbians and unmarried heterosexuals, Ms. “I had no sense that anyone wanted anythg om me except pictur, ” she was a number of gay rights events, cludg some for the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center the Wt Village, Ms. NEW YORK (Rters) - Edh Wdsor, the New York woman whose succsful challenge to a feral law that fed marriage as between one man and one woman helped pave the way for gay marriage natnwi, died on Tuday at age passg was announced by her wife, Judh Kasen-Wdsor, and lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who did not offer a e of 2013 U.

Unr the Defense of Marriage Act, same-sex marriag were not ferally regnized, privg Wdsor of an tate-tax break afford to heterosexual survivg Supreme Court’s Wdsor cisn applied to gay marriag only the 13 stat that permted them at the time.

SUPREME COURT BOLSTERS GAY MARRIAGE WH TWO MAJOR RULGS

In the ensug months, the central reasong of the se was ced by urts several stat that found gay marriage bans 2015, the Supreme Court clared that same-sex marriage was protected by the Constutn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTVioThe Tim’s Adam Liptak tak a look at how the Supreme Court’s cisn to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act Jabsohn/RtersJune 26, 2013WASHINGTON — In a pair of major victori for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court on Wednday led that married same-sex upl were entled to feral benefs and, by clg to ci a se om California, effectively allowed same-sex marriag lgs leave place laws banng same-sex marriage around the natn, and the urt cled to say whether there was a nstutnal right to such unns.

Christopher Gregory/The New York TimHe said the law was motivated by a sire to harm gay and lbian upl and their fai, meang the “moral and sexual choic” of such upl and huiatg “tens of thoands of children now beg raised by same-sex upl. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Jtic Extend Benefs To Gay Coupl; Allow Same-Sex Marriag In California.

And the legal strategy to amass a signifint number of stat to support gay rights is what Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP did to end segregatn schools and marriage. Supreme Court led that sectn three of the so-lled “Defense of Marriage Act” (DOMA) is unnstutnal and that the feral ernment nnot discrimate agast married lbian and gay upl for the purpos of termg feral benefs and protectns.

EDH WDSOR: “THE GRAN DAME OF GAY RIGHTS”

The urt cid that when ernment discrimat agast lbians and gay men, the discrimatn should be prumed to be unnstutnal and the ernment has to have a very good reason for the discrimatn. Though she was closeted at work, Wdsor began equentg Greenwich Village’s gay bars and an upsle rtrant lled the Portofo, loted on Thompson Street the Village, where she heard lbians hung out on Friday was there she met Thea Spyer, a handsome graduate stunt Psychology who was born Amsterdam to a wealthy Jewish fay. In 1993, the Hawaii Supreme Court led that, if marriage licens were to be nied to gay upl, the state would have to velop a pellg ratnale as to why dog so was the bt tert of the state, and fend that ratnale before a trial urt.

Gay relatnships were apparently so stctive that the ernment need to protect the Amerin people agast Clton had mpaigned for print as an ally to the gay muny — promisg to direct fundg to HIV/AIDS preventn and rearch and overturng the ban on gays the armed servic — his tentns were largely circumscribed by the limatns of the princy and a Republin party angered by their loss of the Whe Hoe. Though the Vermont legislature voted to tablish civil unns for gay and lbian upl 1999 followg a lawsu brought by Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), Massachetts, 2003, beme the first state to legalize same-genr marriage Goodridge v.

EDH WDSOR, WHO HELPED END GAY MARRIAGE BAN, DI AT 88

Bh’s attack on gay marriage proved energizg to his base, particularly his Evangelil Christian supporters, and he was succsfully re-elected to a send Febary 12th of that year, San Francis’s handsome and progrsive Mayor, Gav Newsom, fiantly stcted the cy clerk to beg issug marriage licens to same-genr upl. ”Though then printial ndidate Barack Obama would e to support gay marriage, his opns on marriage durg the 2008 printial race helped to fuel the passage of Prop 8. Upon disverg she owed the state of New York and the feral ernment nearly a half-ln dollars tate tax — which she would be exempt om payg had she been married to a man — Wdsor felt like she was beg taxed for beg gay.

Other, more radil, segments of the LGBTQ Rights Movement argued that marriage was an herently opprsive stutn that primarily benefed the most privileged members of the muny: whe middle-to-upper-class lbians and gays. Fearg that Wdsor’s se might be perceived as urpg the mastream Gay Rights Movement, Kaplan asked Jam Esseks, director of the ACLU’s LGBT & AIDS Project and a well-tablished lawyer wh the movement, to be her Uned Stat Supreme Court heard arguments Uned Stat v. Wdsor was cid, Print Barack Obama had e a long way on his views on gay marriage, large part bee LGBTQ activists had phed him, and his admistratn, to addrs their issu.

THE SUPREME COURT’S BIGGT GAY-MARRIAGE DECISN

“I had hated on gay marriage part bee I thought civil unns would be sufficient… I was sensive to the fact that for a lot of people, the word ‘marriage’ was somethg that vok very powerful tradns and relig beliefs. Edh Wdsor, a widow who brought a Supreme Court se that stck down parts of a feral law that banned same-sex marriage and led to feral regnn for gay spo, died Tuday.

The same thg happens 7, 2006: Constutnal amendments banng gay marriage are passed seven more 15, 2008: California Supreme Court strik down a state law banng same-sex marriage, and gay upl beg marryg a month 10, 2008: Connecticut Supreme Court legaliz same-sex 4, 2008: California voters approve Proposn 8, which bans gays and lbians om 3, 2009: Iowa Supreme Court legaliz same-sex 7, 2009: Vermont Legislature overris Gov.

John Lynch signs law legalizg gay 3, 2009: Mae voters overturn the state's gay marriage law at the ballot 18, 2009: District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty signs law legalizg gay 8, 2010: U. Andrew Cuomo signs law legalizg same-sex marriage, more than doublg the number of Amerins livg gay marriage 7, 2012: A feral appeals urt upholds the lg that clared California's Proposn 8 13, 2012: Washgton Gov.

HEROE OF GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT FEELS PRI PROGRS

Mart O'Malley signs law legalizg gay marriage, if voters go along 9, 2012: Print Obama be the first stg print to announce his support for same-sex 31, 2012: A feral appeals urt New England upholds lower urt lgs agast the Defense of Marriage 6, 2012: A feral district judge New York be the fifth to le agast the Defense of Marriage Act. Uned Stat, eventually will reach the Supreme 18, 2012: A feral appeals urt upholds the New York judge's lg agast the Defense of Marriage 6, 2012: Voters approve nstutnal amendments permtg gay marriage Mae, Maryland and Washgton 29.

2012: A feral district judge Nevada upholds the state's ban on gay 7, 2012: Supreme Court agre to hear challeng to the Defense of Marriage Act and the lg agast California's Proposn 26-27, 2013: Supreme Court hears oral arguments Hollgsworth v.

EDH WDSOR, IN OF GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, DI AGED 88

Mark Dayton signs same-sex marriage 26, 2013: Supreme Court strik down a key sectn of the Defense of Marriage Act and dismiss the challenge to the Proposn 8 lg, makg same-sex marriage legal once aga 21, 2013: New Jersey Supreme Court legaliz gay marriage, and Gov. District Judge Timothy Black says Oh mt regnize same-sex marriag performed other 9, 2014: Arkansas Circu Judge Chris Piazza strik down the state's gay marriage ban, and more than 400 upl receive licens until the lg is put on hold a week 13, 2014: U. District Judge Richard Young strik down Indiana's same-sex marriage ban, and upl beg marryg that 1, 2014: The Kentucky urt lg on out-of-state marriag is expand to legalize all gay marriag the state, but 's layed while on 9, 2014: Colorado District Judge Stt Crabtree strik down the state's gay marriage ban, and the lg is appealed to the state Supreme Court.

EDH WDSOR, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND PLATIFF IN LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASE, DI

The lg is later appealed to the Supreme 6, 2014: Supreme Court ref to hear state appeals om Utah, Oklahoma, Virgia, Indiana and Wisns, pavg the way for gay marriage six other stat that fall wh those feral circus -- Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia and 7, 2014: U. District Judge Karen Schreier strik down South Dakota's ban on gay marriage, now on 16, 2015: Supreme Court agre to hear six nsolidated s om all four stat where same-sex marriage bans were upheld November -- Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and 23, 2015: U. District Judge Joseph Bataillon strik down Nebraska's gay marriage ban, but the lg is blocked while on 28, 2015: Supreme Court hears oral arguments Obergefell v.

NEW YORK (AP) — Edh Wdsor, a gay rights pneer whose landmark Supreme Court se stck down parts of a feral anti-gay-marriage law and paved a path toward legalizg same-sex nuptials natnwi, died Tuday. The opn marked a key moment of enuragement for gay marriage supporters then nontg a natnwi patchwork of laws that outlawed such unns roughly three dozen also afonted nservativ who hewed to fg marriage as between a man and a woman.