For more than a , the battle over same-sex marriage and other rights for gay upl has been hard fought U.S. urts and legislatur and at the ballot box. Use this map to view ton the fight and to explore how state laws have changed sce 2000. On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court led that same-sex upl have a nstutnal right to marry natnwi.
Contents:
- HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
- THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
- THE GAY MARRIAGE MAP
HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
The Supreme Court's cisn to ny appeals for five stat that wanted to ban same-sex marriage opens the door for expansn of gay unns * gay marriage map us 2014 *
This is an teractive map showg the legaly of same-sex (gay) marriage and civil unns the Uned n I fd more rmatn about a state? 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.
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 MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriage map us 2014 *
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.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, 2004. * gay marriage map us 2014 *
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.
STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
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. Governor Sean Parnell said the state would appeal, but that se would go to the Nth Circu, the same urt that stck down Idaho and Nevada’s gay marriage ban.
THE GAY MARRIAGE MAP
The above map currently shows where gay upl n and n’t get married, as of Oct. 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.
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?
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.