Unrsrg s origal lg last November, Massachetts' hight urt said Wednday that only full marriage rights for gay upl, not civil unns, would nform to the state's nstutn.
Contents:
- 15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
- WHEN GAY MARRIAGE CAME TO MASSACHETTS
- GAY RIGHTS LEAP FORWARD AS MASSACHETTS BE THE STATE OF WEDD BLISS
- MASSACHETTS’ GAY MARRIAGE BILL IS NOW LAW
- TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG
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WHEN GAY MARRIAGE CAME TO MASSACHETTS
The champagne is chilled, the k are osted, and gay and lbian upl across Massachetts are ready to make history Monday by sayg "I do." * what gay marriage has done to massachusetts *
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The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.
GAY RIGHTS LEAP FORWARD AS MASSACHETTS BE THE STATE OF WEDD BLISS
Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts. The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference. “I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife.
MASSACHETTS’ GAY MARRIAGE BILL IS NOW LAW
But gay uple Robert Compton and David Wilson, now happily married, n still remember how they cried when they heard the news. They me out late, and were exced to get a new start on they met 1997 at a nventn for gay fathers Boston, there was an stant nnectn. They ma their vows durg a mment ceremony at Boston’s Arlgton Street Church 2000 ont of iends and 2001, the Massachetts-based gay rights anizatn Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, or GLAD, asked the pair to be a part of the Goodridge lawsu.
The uple relled anti-gay-marriage protters outsi the urthoe wavg picket signs wh hateful slogans like “God hat fags.
“When you actually started to see your fay, iends, neighbors get married and live their liv, and see jt how siar our fai are to other married fai, really started to stroy the wall of myths that our opponents had tried to create around the alleged negative effects of marriage equaly, bee was there person, right ont of you, ” Silva, three years after the Supreme Court's 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage across the natn — and 15 years after Massachetts did so for s rints — two three Amerins support gay marriage, acrdg to a recent Gallup days, marriage equaly feels more or ls normal to Wilson and Compton, who will celebrate their 15th anniversary broar fight for LGBTQ equaly, however, ntu, warned Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, a natnal LGBTQ rights group. Warbelow also poted to recent bills Kansas and Oklahoma that would give fah-based adoptn agenci the abily to ny adoptn to gay and lbian upl.
TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
The mood is ftive and celebratory as Massachetts gay upl le up to fill out marriage license paperwork.
CAMBRIDGE, Massachetts (CNN) -- The champagne is chilled, the k are osted, and gay and lbian upl across Massachetts are ready to make history Monday by sayg "I do. "To have the hight urt the state affirm your right to be a fay was wonrful, and jt gave you urage, " said Marcia Hams, who mped out ont of Cambridge Cy Hall on Sunday wh her bri-to-be, San Shepherd, to be the first le to apply for a marriage ci and towns the Bay State, cludg Cambridge, cid to open their licensg offic Sunday night so they uld beg handg out same-sex marriage applitns after midnight, when they bee the stroke of midnight, thoands of people broke to cheers as cy clerks Cambridge issued the first marriage license applitns to to gay and lbian and Shepherd were the first uple to fill out the crowd around Cambridge Cy Hall began throwg rice and sgg "The Star-Spangled Banner" as upl streamed through the ont door and to the clerk's male uple rried a sign readg "49 years together" wh pictur of their children and grandchildren on the the applitns are hand, upl will eher have to wa three days, or seek a waiver of the wag perd om a judge, before they n get a license to marry. The cisn on whether to grant a waiver is up to each dividual same-sex marriag Monday will mark a tone the gay rights movement, the culmatn of more than a of legal challeng across the untry to laws limg marriage to upl of the oppose social nservativ, too, have been galvanized by the specter of same-sex marriag, anizg support of a feral nstutnal amendment outlawg the practice, as well as amendments a number of stat that would stop other urts om followg Massachetts' issue has also bee fodr for the printial race.