Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

Contents:

• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

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.

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. 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.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

The above map currently shows where gay upl n and n’t get married, as of Oct. 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.

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

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

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.

The first lawsus volvg same-sex marriage, also lled gay marriage, started the 1970s, brgg the qutn of civil marriage rights for same-sex upl to public attentn. Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon bee the first gay uple to marry and receive official regnn after beg together for 50 years. Thirty-seven stat have legalized gay marriage, wh rtrictns Kansas, Missouri, and Alabama.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. 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? 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.

The rmatn below reflects the stat of gay marriage natnwi on June 25, 2015, the day prr to the Supreme Court’s cisn. 3, 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court orred the state’s 68 probate judg to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex upl, spe an earlier feral urt lg that stck down the state’s gay marriage ban, and the US Supreme Court’s cisn to allow same-sex marriag to proceed the state.

Stat where gay marriage bans had been overturned, but where appeals were progrs prr to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court lg.

GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN

ARKANSAS – On May 9, 2014, Arkansas’ gay marriage ban was led unnstutnal by Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza. Arkansas had prevly banned gay marriage by both state law and voter-approved nstutnal amendment. The Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriag om takg place, however, by notg that while Judge Piazza’s lg had stck down both the nstutnal amendment and the state law, had not affected an addnal state law prohibg unty clerks om issug same-sex marriage licens.

On May 15, 2014, Judge Piazza expand his lg to strike down the addnal law and any other measur that ma gay marriage illegal, but on May 16, 2014 the State Supreme Court spend that lg, haltg all gay marriag wh the state. 25, 2014, US District Judge Kriste Baker led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed her own lg, pendg expected appeals. Heyburn II led that Kentucky’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage vlat the equal protectn clse the US Constutn.

6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Heyburn’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban. 16, 2015, Frankl County Circu Judge Thomas Wgate led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but put his lg on hold, pendg the Supreme Court’s cisn.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Friedman’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban.

25, 2014, US District Judge Carlton Reev led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed his own lg, pendg expected appeals. Louis Circu Judge Rex Burlison led that the state’s gay marriage ban is unnstutnal. 2, 2015, US District Judge Joseph Bataillon clared Nebraska’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, scribg as an “unabashedly genr-specific gement of the equal rights of s cizens.

12, 2015, US District Judge Karen Schreier led South Dakota’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, statg that “Platiffs have a fundamental right to marry… South Dakota law priv them of that right solely bee they are same-sex upl and whout sufficient jtifitn. 19, 2015, two At women were married after state District Judge David Wahlberg orred an exceptn be ma to Texas’ gay marriage ban bee one of the women had been diagnosed wh ovarian ncer. Associated Prs, “Feral Judge Strik Down SC Gay Marriage Ban, ”, Nov.

GAY MARRIAGE

Associated Prs, “Jtice Kennedy Blocks Gay Marriage Rulg for Idaho, Nevada, ”, Oct. Associated Prs, “Kentucky Judge Rejects State’s Gay Marriage Ban, ”, Apr. Associated Prs, “‘We’re Walkg on Clouds’: Gay Marriag Beg Nevada, ”, Oct.

Curt Anrson, “Feral Judge Rul Florida Gay Marriage Ban Unnstutnal, but Delays Issug of Licens, ”, Aug.