Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT
• WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
• SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

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. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT

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

WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?

Gay Marriage by State. Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn.

Below are the stat that have legalized gay marriage the orr which they legalized.

The followg stat have not legalized gay marriage:. In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl.

SUPREME COURT DECISN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT

Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote. 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.

Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else.

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. 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.

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs. "Jtice Alo asked, well then why not marry four gay men together?

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. Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. Ernment to provi the same benefs to both gay and heterosexual upl.

The Supreme Court on Friday legalized same-sex marriage the Uned the 5-4 landmark cisn, the majory of jtic led that stat mt license same-sex marriag and also regnize gay marriag performed legally other stat. Kennedy, who wrote the urt's prev three cisns on gay rights, had been the likely cidg the cisn was hand down, 36 stat and the District of Columbia allowed gay upl to marry. Each district urt led the petners' favor, but the Sixth Circu bed the s and reversed the was possible for the jtic to le that 's unnstutnal to ny gay upl all of the rights and privileg of marriage whout requirg stat to allow them to arguably was the largt se remag the fal days of the urt's term before ends next Tuday.