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

Contents:

• THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, PAVG PATH FOR PROTECTG SAME SEX UNNS
• THIS MAP SHOWS HOW GAY MARRIAGE SPREAD ACROSS THE UNED STAT

THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI

12, 2016More than three years after a Supreme Court cisn gave feral regnn to same-sex marriag performed stat that allowed them, the mographics of same-sex married upl largely rema a fact, no one has a five unt of gay married upl the Uned reason ’s hard to get a fix on the marriag is that tailed marriage rerds are not tracked at the feral level. It don’t rely on sampl as the cens do, but all the tax rerds difference is particularly important when to untg gay and lbian populatns.

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

The problem wh timatg gay and lbian populatns is that they reprent such a small actn of the total populatn; any mistak how people answered their cens forms are likely to ph the number of gay upl and, particular, gay married upl wildly out of fact, this is what happened the 2000 cens and aga 2010. One of the more tertg problems was that many straight upl were beg classified as gay bee of rrectly checked box on a cens form. This rulted, acrdg to some timat, as much as a 25 percent overunt of gay did the Cens Bure try to ntrol for this error?

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

So gay upl who crossed state borrs to marry, but lived stat that did not regnize gay marriage, were not allowed to file jotly on their state tax returns. Hodg, the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that regnized gay marriage all stat. So the Treasury data is most likely unruntg same-sex marriag more than a dozen stat that did not regnize such marriag before the Obergefell the bt way to thk about the Treasury numbers is as a floor, lower than the hypothetilly perfect unt of gay marriage but the clost we’ve ever e to one.

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Most Detailed Map Yet of Gay Marriage Ameri. It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time? In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US.

Transgenr young people take a particularly hard-h: Fourteen stat are weighg bills excludg transgenr stunts om sports, and 11 have floated legislatn that bans medil re for transgenr mors, some even makg treatment a at least 14 stat have three or more anti-LGBTQ bills on the laws help notch progrs  FloridaNade Smh liv Florida, where “Ana Bryant put on the map the worst possible way” the 1970s wh her anti-gay Smh, the CEO and -founr of civil rights group Equaly Florida, has seen a slow transformatn the state recent years, maly bee ci and unti have moved the marker – much more so than the 2010, Florida was ranked a “negative” equaly state by MAP. When she was growg up the Panhandle, she had to trick a classmate to checkg out a book that had gay them om the library. Now her former high school has a gay alliance and there are anti-bullyg polici.

SENATE FEATS FILIBTER ON GAY MARRIAGE BILL, PAVG PATH FOR PROTECTG SAME SEX UNNS

In 2018, Coloradoans elected their first openly transgenr legislator and the untry’s first openly male gay ernor. Addnally, the urt's cisn means six other stat those judicial circus — North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, Colorado, Kansas and Wyomg — will eventually allow gay upl to marry, as those stat will be bound by the appellate urt lgs. That will brg the total number of stat allowg gay marriage to teractive at the top of this story shows which stat still ban same-sex marriag, stat where 's now legal and where gay marriag are allowed pendg STORIES:.

8 Wyomg beme the latt state to legalize gay marriage Tuday after state lawyers filed a legal notice sayg they would not appeal a urt cisn that overturned the state’s same-sex marriage ban.

THIS MAP SHOWS HOW GAY MARRIAGE SPREAD ACROSS THE UNED STAT

That means gay upl n now marry the state where gay teen Matthew Shepherd was beaten to ath 1998, what beme known as a high-profile hate-crime. The news after a feral judge stck down Arizona’s same-sex marriage ban Friday, makg Wyomg the latt a seri of urt cisns that have opened the door for gay marriage that state and 12 others this month.

The cisn to ny appeals signals that the Supreme Court agreed wh lower urts’ lgs that rtrictns on gay marriage were unnstutnal, but the Court did not yet want to make a sweepg lg that appli to all 50 stat.

Colorado, North Carola, and Wt Virgia have already dited they will allow gay upl to marry. On October 7, a feral urt San Francis clared Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage bans unnstutnal. 12, an Alaska urt overturned the state’s 16-year old nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage, allowg same-sex upl to marry for the first time.