Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

Contents:

• FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT, 2013
• 2013: THE YEAR OF GAY MARRIAGE?
• GAY MARRIAGE
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• SUPREME COURT BOLSTERS GAY MARRIAGE WH TWO MAJOR RULGS
• SUPREME COURT EXTENDS GAY-MARRIAGE RIGHTS WH TWO RULGS

FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE

Supreme Court was expected on Wednday to issue lgs two major s relatg to gay first three stat to allow gay marriage did so bee of urt lgs permtg , rather than through legislative actn or puttg the issue to voters to ci. Sce mid-2009, six stat have approved gay marriage laws by passg laws state legislatur and three stat by ballot California, same-sex marriage was legal briefly 2008 followg a urt lg permtg .

GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN

Supreme is a look at the stat that have approved gay ORDERS* MASSACHUSETTS - In 2003, Massachetts beme the first state to allow gay marriage after s hight urt led the state’s ban vlated the nstutnal rights of same-sex upl. LEGISLATIVE ACTION* VERMONT - In 2009, Vermont beme the first state to legalize gay marriage by legislative means. * NEW HAMPSHIRE - Two years after New Hampshire began allowg same-sex upl to enter to civil unns, the state approved gay marriage 2009.

* NEW YORK - After a gay marriage bill failed New York’s Democratic-ntrolled Senate by a marg of 38 to 24 2009, advot retooled their strategy and applied prsure to lawmakers who had voted “no. * RHODE ISLAND - In 2013, after the state legislature and ernor approved a gay marriage bill, Rho Island beme the last of the New England stat to legalize same-sex marriage. Over the last two years, the number of stat thorizg gay marriage had expand rapidly bee of legislative cisns, referendums or urt orrs.

In 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl.

STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)

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Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken.

Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt. Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men. He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT, 2013

Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr. Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law.

California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

2013: THE YEAR OF GAY MARRIAGE?

On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote.

Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts. In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn.

Wdsor cisn, gay marriage bans were overturned by urt lgs several stat, but those lgs were put on hold pendg appeals to the US Supreme Court. 6, 2014, the Supreme Court cled to hear appeals om five of those stat, and the cisn immediately cleared the way for legal gay marriage Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virgia, and Wisns.

GAY MARRIAGE

Six other stat which gay marriage bans had been overturned, Colorado, Kansas, North Carola, South Carola, Wt Virgia, and Wyomg, were also affected by the Supreme Court lg bee they were the jurisdictns of the lower urts that had overturned the gay marriage bans.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

In a 4-3 lg on May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court overturned state laws banng gay marriage. On May 26, 2009, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposn 8’s gay marriage ban, but on Aug.

SUPREME COURT BOLSTERS GAY MARRIAGE WH TWO MAJOR RULGS

Sce the lower urt had already clared Proposn 8 to be unnstutnal, the cisn was nsired to have cleared the way for gay marriag to rume the state. “Outsi of the marriage ntext, n you thk of any other ratnal basis, reason, for a State g sexual orientatn as a factor nyg homosexuals benefs or imposg burns on them? “I thk there’s substance to the pot that soclogil rmatn [about allowg gay upl to marry] is new.

“[T]he evince prented at trial shows that gays and lbians are the type of mory strict scty was signed to protect. That fdg follows exorably om this Court’s equal protectn jurispnce, the extensive trial rerd, and Proponents’ repeated ncsns that gay men and lbians have faced a history of discrimatn based on a tra that has no bearg on their abily to ntribute to society… [T]here is no group Amerin society who has been targeted by ballot iativ more than gays and lbians, and they have sentially lost a hundred percent of the ntts over same-sex marriage. Ined, the undisputed fact that gay men and lbians have been subjected to a history of discrimatn based on a tra that bears no relatnship to their abily to ntribute to society is sufficient, and of self, to renr classifitns based on sexual orientatn ‘spect’ and to give rise to heightened scty.

SUPREME COURT EXTENDS GAY-MARRIAGE RIGHTS WH TWO RULGS

“The Defense of Marriage Act do not discrimate between heterosexuals and homosexuals, but between oppose-sex married upl and same-sex married upl. Although DOMA admtedly has a greater impact on homosexuals than heterosexuals, that impact, unr this Court’s precents, is not nstutnally relevant unls n be traced back to an tent or purpose on behalf of Congrs to discrimate agast homosexuals, as opposed to the mere knowledge that would have a disparate impact on them. They clu the ernment shutdown, the bungled health-re webse rollout, the Edward Snown leaks, and the New Jersey and Virgia gubernatorial there's a story we fet to clu that should have been on the list: gay, when lookg back on , some uld argue that 2013 was the year of gay marriage and gay rights about :-- In the past year, gay marriage beme legal seven addnal stat (Delaware, Hawaii, Illois, Mnota, New Jersey, New Mexi, and Rho Island).