State-by-State History of Banng and Legalizg Gay Marriage

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

* the states that allow gay marriage *

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

Gay marriage licens are given, only some stat of the U.S.A. Scroll below, to learn which stat are the. * the states that allow gay marriage *

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

On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote.

GAY MARRIAGE

The bans on gay marriage 13 stat across Ameri have been led unnstutnal. * the states that allow gay marriage *

Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts.

In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn.

WHICH STAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?

Neteen stat pl Washgton, D.C., now allow gay marriage. Here is where the fight for marriage equaly the U.S. stands. * the states that allow gay marriage *

Below are the stat that have legalized gay marriage the orr which they legalized. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman. The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U.

District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose.