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The Supreme Court on Friday led that bans on same-sex marriage are unnstutnal, effectively makg gay marriage legal all 50 stat

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuday turned away a bid by gay-marriage opponents to block the public release of vio of a watershed 2010 trial California that overturned a voter-approved ban on gay nuptials Ameri's most populo state. * supreme court gay marriage celebration *

Crowds of people sg and wipg away tears filled the street outsi the Stonewall Inn New York Cy’s Greenwich Village on Friday, celebratg the Supreme Court’s landmark gay marriage lg and marvelg at how much has changed the past 50 years. The historic gay bar, which was jt granted landmark stat this week, was the se of rts 1969 agast police raids, protts that were creded wh talyzg the gay rights movement.

On Friday, throngs of upl, fai and tourists—gay and straight, young and old—all flocked to that se to pay tribute to the early gay rights pneers and rejoice the Supreme Court cisn that effectively legalized same-sex marriage across all 50 stat.

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In a historic cisn for the gay right's movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U.S. Constutn grants same-sex upl the right to marry. Jtice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry. * supreme court gay marriage celebration *

Mary O’Shghnsy, 52, a gay IT manager om New York, relled the years surroundg the Stonewall rts as a time of secrecy, and remembered two of her neighbors particular, a pair of women who had been nurs World War II and lived together the 1960s.

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We’re exced and proud to be gay and be gay Amerins and to be married as a gay uple after so many years together.

Hodg, the landmark se gave many gay people stabily prevly afford only to straight upl.

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” But she add that the cisn is not the fal step the gay rights movement.

Bin's evolutn on gay rights and same-sex marriage On almost no other issue has Amerin public opn shifted so dramatilly so quickly. In 1973, as a young senator, a gay rights activist nonted Bin about discrimatory feral regulatns.

"My gut reactn is they are secury risks, " Bin said of people who were gay the ary and Civil Service, "but I'll adm, I haven't given this much thought.

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" In the 1990s, like many other senators, Bin st a seri of vot that hurt the ph for gay rights — om cuttg off fundg om public schools that were "enuragg or supportg homosexualy as a posive liftyle alternative" to the Defense of Marriage Act 1996. Democrats had moved toward the half-measure of civil unns — givg legal rights to gay upl, but, largely bee of the polics, were not ready to e out fully support of "marriage.

Whether they're marriag of lbians or gay men or heterosexuals.

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