LGBTQ rights: Five years after gay marriage lg, battl ntue

Contents:

• CONGRS NSIRS DIFYG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER LONG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• “PROGRS!” THE WORLD’S FIRST THREE-WAY GAY MARRIAGE
• HISTORY, PROGRS, AND THE FATE OF GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY RIGHTS

CONGRS NSIRS DIFYG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER LONG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS

Eskridge — who has another book on marriage equaly lled “From Outlaws to In-Laws” g out Augt — noted that although Congrs once labeled homosexual people as “sexual psychopaths, ” recent years, “space has been ma Amerin polil and social culture for people who who do not follow majory approach to sexual orientatn or genr inty. Televisn and the Wng of Same-Sex Marriage, ” spoke about the lims of the Obergefell cisn a recent terview: “When talkg about many of the bigger, practil fancial issu that marriage helps, same-sex marriage has really only benefed cisgenr whe lbians and gay men who already had some upward mobily, ” he noted.

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"It both reflects and accelerat the profound transformatn of hearts and mds, as well as law and polics, around the treatment of gay people, " says gay rights advote Evan Wolfson who found the anizatn Freedom to Marry. ”The Supreme Court extend workplace protectns natnwi last week for the LGBTQ muny, lg 6-3 that a landmark civil rights law barrg sex discrimatn the workplace appli to gay, lbian and transgenr the urt's majory, led by nservative Associate Jtice Neil Gorsuch, did not close the door on relig exemptns, sayg "other employers other s may raise ee exercise arguments that mer reful nsiratn. "'The air was electric'The high urt's 5-4 cisn that stat nnot ny marriage rights to gay men and lbians was hand down on June 26 – the same date as earlier landmark LGBTQ lgs agast state sodomy laws 2003 and the feral Defense of Marriage Act 2013.

"Lookg back, the victory is equally gratifyg to those like Evan Wolfson, founr of the Freedom to Marry mpaign; Jam Esseks, director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr & HIV Project; Roberta Kaplan, who reprented Edie Wdsor of New York the 2013 se that forced the feral ernment to regnize same-sex marriage; and Mary Bonto, the natn's leadg LGBTQ rights lawyer, who won both the Massachetts se 2003 and the Supreme Court se 2015. 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.

“PROGRS!” THE WORLD’S FIRST THREE-WAY GAY MARRIAGE

” 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. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

HISTORY, PROGRS, AND THE FATE OF GAY MARRIAGE

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

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Kansas and Texas were next 2005, and 2006 saw seven more stat passg Constutnal amendments agast gay towards the end of the , gay marriage beme legal var stat, cludg Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont (the first state to approve by legislative means) and New Hampshire. Domtic Partnerships Throughout the and the begng of the next, California equently ma headl for seawg on the gay marriage state was the first to pass a domtic partnership statute 1999, and legislators tried to pass a same-sex marriage bill 2005 and 2007.