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:
- THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
- GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
- GAY MARRIAGE CHRONOLOGY
- MAP: GAY MARRIAGE LAWS BY STATE
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 interactive map *
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? 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.
GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
In June of 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. This timele highlights the chang state polici leadg up to that lg. * gay marriage interactive map *
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. 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.
GAY MARRIAGE CHRONOLOGY
* gay marriage interactive map *
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.
Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris. Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.
Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns. Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.
MAP: GAY MARRIAGE LAWS BY STATE
Worldwi, most of the untri that allow gay marriage are Wtern Europe. In the Ameris, five untri have legalized gay marriage. * gay marriage interactive map *
1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal. Over the last two years, the number of stat thorizg gay marriage had expand rapidly bee of legislative cisns, referendums or urt orrs. Gay Marriage State by State: From a Few Stat to the Whole Natn.
In 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl.
Gay marriage timele * gay marriage interactive map *
Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. Homosexual Marriage State-by-State – Interactive Map. To date, urts, legislatur and voters 19 stat – California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illois, Iowa, Mae, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexi, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rho Island, Vermont and Washgton state – and the District of Columbia have legalized[homosexual] marriage.
Meanwhile, 28 stat have nstutnal amendments banng gay marriage. To see an teractive map of the Uned Stat showg the chang homosexual marriage state by state, click here. Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people.
Transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or somethg else. For more than a , the battle over same-sex marriage and other rights for gay upl has been hard fought U. The Uned Kgdom’s Parliament London recently legalized same-sex marriage Northern Ireland, which had been the last UK nstuent untry to bar gay and lbian upl om marryg.