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.
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
Laws, s, and web sourc on gay marriage. * boston legal gay marriage *
Massachetts' "gay marriage" cisn. Hog and mortgag for gay and lbian upl, Mortgage. How to get married Massachetts, Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), July 2015.
GAY MARRIAGE
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TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
(The lol chapter of the Gay and Lbian League, fearg the unn would fuel the rightwg belief that hetero upl would explo same-sex marriage for tax breaks, tried to put an junctn on their marriage license, but the judge led that the ernment don't — and shouldn't — ask upl why they're marryg. 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. 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.
WOMEN GOT ‘MARRIED’ LONG BEFORE GAY MARRIAGE
The Stonewall rts of 1969 began wh a police raid on a popular Greenwich Village Gay Bar, the Stonewall Inn. Famo physicians and psychologists studied what they lled “homosexualy” or “verted tennci, ” and began to prcribe medil treatments to cure people of this perceived ailment.
In 1973, anizers lnched Gay Communy News (GCN) at the Charl Street Meetg Hoe as the “Gay Communy Newsletter”.