‘It is so orred.’ Supreme Court Jtic on gay marriage cisn | PBS NewsHour

Contents:

• WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS
• CROWDS AT STONEWALL INN CELEBRATE GAY RIGHTS VICTORY DES THE MAKG
• ‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN
• SEE SCEN OF CELEBRATN AFTER SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE RULG
• GAY MARRIAGE

WHAT THE SUPREME COURT'S GAY WEDDG WEBSE LG MEANS FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS

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.

CROWDS AT STONEWALL INN CELEBRATE GAY RIGHTS VICTORY DES THE MAKG

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. 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.

” 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. " 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.

‘IT IS SO ORRED.’ SUPREME COURT JTIC ON GAY MARRIAGE CISN

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.

[1/2]Supporters of gay marriage rally ont of the Supreme Court Washgton June 25, 2015. 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 jtic cled to hear the appeal of a lower urt's 2021 lg favor of news media pani cludg public rad and TV broadster KQED and advot of gay marriage who sought release of vio of the proceedgs ma for the trial judge. District Judge Vghn Walker, volved a lawsu brought by two gay upl who challenged Proposn 8 to ban same-sex marriage California, which passed wh the support of 52% of led 2010 that the state's bar on same-sex marriage vlated the U.

SEE SCEN OF CELEBRATN AFTER SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE RULG

The Supreme Court June 2015 a landmark lg of s own legalized gay marriage natnwi, lg along the same nstutnal grounds as rerd the 2010 trial for what he said would be a tool to help him wre his lg, statg that "'s not gog to be for purpos of public broadstg or televisg.

Kennedy, then the center of the High Court, rejected the optns before him, cidg agast sidg wh a same-sex uple who had been nied a ke for their Colorado weddg receptn and agast sidg wh the baker who said his oven was off-lims to gay upl. Jt a few weeks ago, when Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the natn’s hight-rankg Senate-nfirmed gay member of the Bin Admistratn, joed TIME’s Washgton Bure for a wi-rangg nversatn, he was blunt: “I mean, Roe fell and that was the law of the land for longer than I’ve been alive. In a historic cisn for the gay right’s movement, the Supreme Court led on Friday that the U.

Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn, said that gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry. Same-sex marriage supporters celebrate after the Supreme Court’s landmark lg on gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE

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Y., the first openly gay Ao-Lato member of Congrs, prid over the Rpect for Marriage Act would tablish that a marriage is nsired valid unr feral law if was legal the state where was performed. Supreme Court as hears arguments a major LGBT rights se on whether a feral anti-discrimatn law that prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex vers gay and transgenr employe Washgton, October 8, 2019.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.