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TODAY IN HISTORY: 12 YEARS SCE MASSACHETTS BEME FIRST STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

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Legalizg gay marriage did more than rg weddg bells-- changed the landspe of acceptance and equaly for all Massachetts cizens.

Adam Reilly wrote about how Massachetts ma gay policians mastream: om Charlie Baker mpaigng wh his openly gay brother, to Mra Healey beg elected to Attorney General ltle notice of her sexualy.

Meno is remembered as a rock star of the LGBT muny, and many nsir him pivotal the legalizatn of gay marriage:On Monday, May 17, 2004, Meno proudly rted the lead platiffs Goodridge v.

REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS

Ten years ago this week, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage. Attorney Mary Bonto, one of the key drivers of the change, is a quiet, unassumg mother of two om Mae. * massachusetts first to legalize gay marriage *

Supreme Court revved up to take on the nstutnaly of gay marriage.

15 YEARS LATER, GAY UPLE RELLS THEIR ROLE MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC MARRIAGE LG

The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * massachusetts first to legalize gay marriage *

om same-sex upl Massachetts that uld prove legalizg gay marriage would posively affect the liv of Amerins. Before gay marriage beme legal natnally, many bs stepped up to ensure protectns for the LGBT muny.

LAWYER REFLECTS ON NATN'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG: 'THE CAGE HAD BEEN LIFTED'

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. * massachusetts first to legalize gay marriage *

Supreme Court pass gay marriage on June 26, 2015!

GAY MARRIAGE

Legal scholar Kenji Yosho spoke to WGBH News' Morng Edn on the role that Massachetts played the Supreme Court's cisn to legalize gay marriage:When Massachetts had same sex marriage…. Massachetts' "gay marriage" cisn.

HOW DID GAY MARRIAGE HAPPEN MASSACHETTS FIRST?

Hog and mortgag for gay and lbian upl, Mortgage. How to get married Massachetts, Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), July 2015.

A legal gui for lbian and gay upl by Frerick Hertz, Nolo, 2020. Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr fay law, Thomson Rters, Annual.

Morn fai: effective advocy for lbian and gay clients, MCLE, 2013. The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.

LOOKG BACK AT THE LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE MASS.

Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts.

The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference.

TEN YEARS AGO, MASSACHETTS TRODUCED TO GAY MARRIAGE

“I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife.

A first csh of 41 upl led up the middle of the night to be the first gays and lbians to be legally married the Uned Stat, wh some of the platiffs the urt se gettg ont-of-the-le scene was jubilant.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* MASSACHUSETTS FIRST TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE

Ten years ago, Massachetts troduced to gay marriage.

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