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• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL 6 YEARS AGO ILLOIS. SCE THEN, NEARLY 15,000 GAY UPL HAVE WED COOK COUNTY.
• RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS
• COUPL SEEK LG ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE SE
• LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS
• ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE BE LAW AS PROMPTS HOPE, NCERN
• WILL ILL. LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS?
• SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE LG PRAISED BY ILLOIS ADVOT
• GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL 6 YEARS AGO ILLOIS. SCE THEN, NEARLY 15,000 GAY UPL HAVE WED COOK COUNTY.

Greg Harris, a primary sponsor of the bill who is openly gay, appld activists and advot who lobbied for the legislatn.

Many of those state bans also face legal challeng, wh nearly 30 lawsus filed across the untry after two Supreme Court cisns the summer that favored gay marriage rights.

RIGHTS OF LBIANS, GAYS, BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENR PERSONS

': Gay upl exile return to Ameri post-DOMA cisnSame-sex marriage supporters cheer 'Crella moment'; opponents vow to fight onRights wh reach: For some gay upl, marriage is mere away -- but that's still too farDaniel Ark, Staff Wrer, NBC News.

”Gay and lbian upl won the right to marry Illois when former Gov. Illois was the first state the Midwt to allow gay marriage through legislative actn, Qun said.

Iowa legalized gay marriage 2009 when s Supreme Court overturned a state ban. marriageCHICAGO (WLS) -- Congrs took historic actn Thursday as the Hoe voted to pass the Rpect for Marriage Act, difyg gay marriage.

COUPL SEEK LG ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE SE

The vote is e for celebratn the LGBTQ muny Rpect of Marriage Act, which giv feral regnn to gay cheers were shared by Anna DeShawn, founr and host of E3 rad, an onle statn terg to LGBTQ and her wife Kaya got married 2017, and she said the law helps take the stg out of so much of the recent negative rhetoric her muny has endured. That means somethg means a whole lot, " she new law will repeal the Defense of Marriage Act which unr feral law had fed a marriage as between a man and a law is particularly important to gay rights activists who worry that after the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. And that feels good, " DeShawn Rpect for Marriage Act do not set a natnal requirement that all stat mt license gay marriage but do require dividual stat to regnize same sex and terracial marriag performed another state.

LAWMAKERS APPROVE GAY MARRIAGE ILLOIS

The Act prohibs discrimatn based on someone's actual or perceived sexual orientatn, which is fed to clu heterosexualy, homosexualy, bisexualy, and genr-related inty. Sexual orientatn is a protected tegory unr the Illois Hate Crim Act and clus actual or perceived heterosexualy, homosexualy, bisexualy, or genr-related inty. The natn’s largt anizatn voted to the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins released a guibook potg to laws ems discrimatory each state, and unted more than 75 anti-LGBTQ+ bills that have been signed to law this NAACP last month issued a travel advisory for Florida, a popular warm-weather statn the U.

In Illois, gay marriage was legalized 2014, grantg same-sex upl the same legal rights as oppose-sex upl. For example, bee marriage laws have recently changed, many gay and lbian upl are marryg later life than their straight unterparts. Nathaniel Iovelli (left) and Ted Daisher jo other supporters of same-sex marriage at a rally Chigo to celebrate the Illois General Assembly's passg of the gay marriage bill on Nov.

After months of wranglg among lawmakers and opposn om powerful relig groups, the Illois Statehoe approved gay marriage on Nov. CHICAGO (AP) — Twenty-five upl who filed a lawsu challengg Illois’ ban on gay marriage asked a judge on Wednday to le quickly their favor, sayg a recent U. Supreme Court cisn strikg down part of a law nyg feral benefs to married gay upl creat a new urgency the state.

ILLOIS GAY MARRIAGE BE LAW AS PROMPTS HOPE, NCERN

Illois legalized civil unns two years ago, but the recent Supreme Court cisn appli only to married gay Legal and the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn of Illois filed a motn for summary judgment Cook County Circu Court. Has me wonrg if they’re particularly nfint of their legal posn as a matter of law, ” said Peter Breen, executive director of the Thomas More Society, a public tert law firm that oppos gay marriage. Illois’ lawsu was filed last year agast Cook County Clerk David Orr, a supporter of gay marriage whose office is rponsible for issug marriage licens Chigo and the rt of the unty.

Madigan said she would file arguments support of the Knight, director of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr Project of the ACLU of Illois, said only marriage will ensure that gay upl Illois get protectns that other married upl enjoy, cludg fay medil leave and veterans and tax benefs. LGBTQ+ clus people who intify as: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, or Qutng. Employers n't discrimate agast you for beg transgenr or gay.

WILL ILL. LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE BEFORE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS?

This clus bullyg someone for beg gay or transgenr. Lawmakers approved gay marriage Tuday a historic vote that saw supporters overe cultural, racial and geographic divis and put Illois le wh a growg number of stat that have extend the right to wed to same-sex more than a year of tense lobbyg by both sis, gay lawmakers ma emotnal pleas to lleagu to give their fai equal rights even as opponents argued that dog so would unravel the foundatn of society. Rolvg the gay marriage qutn also allows state lears to get a divisive issue off their plat before next year's big statewi electn, even as long-standg fancial issu headled by the state's $100 billn public worker pensn shortfall rema unrolved.

Print Barack Obama noted his relatively recent nversn last year to supporter of gay marriage.

"Michelle and I are overjoyed for all the mted upl Illois whose love will now be as legal as ours — and for their iends and fay who have long wanted nothg more than to see their loved on treated fairly and equally unr the law, " Obama said a vote Tuday pped a year which prospects for gay marriage often were dim.

SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE LG PRAISED BY ILLOIS ADVOT

Supreme Court's landmark lg that stck down the fn of marriage as between a man and a woman for the purpose of receivg feral hailed as a major victory, the move created a suatn which gay upl livg stat that regnize same-sex marriage have more rights than their unterparts stat that haven't legalized gay marriage. The two-class system was a clear narrative that advot uld e when lobbyg lawmakers who were on the fence, ntendg jt didn't make sense for gay upl Illois to be nied accs to benefs that were available to upl livg jt across the borr Iowa.

GAY PEOPLE WHO E OUT LATER LIFE FACE UNIQUE OBSTACL

Advot soon received addnal help om Pope Francis, who warned that the Catholic Church uld lose s way by focg too much on social stanc, cludg opposn to homosexualy.

"If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? " Francis said ments sparked a wave of soul-searchg by several Catholic lawmakers who had battled to rencile their relig beliefs wh their sworn duty to reprent their nstuents who were creasgly supportive of gay rights even as Cardal Francis Gee remaed opposed. "For those that jt happen to be gay — livg a very harmon, productive relatnship but illegal — who am I to judge that they should be illegal?

Madigan had e unr fire om some gay rights groups who argued that he wasn't dog enough to build support the chamber he ntrols, but advot say he was cril roundg up the fal need vot the last several, Madigan acknowledged that he helped persua "a signifint number of people" to vote for the legislatn. "It was over five, " Madigan said, addg that was not over addn, Ain-Amerin lawmakers who had been divid on the issue provid some key vot favor, and three Hoe Republins me speaker gave much cred to Harris, the bill's sponsor, sayg he was steadfast the face of "unwarranted cricism" om some the gay muny who were not happy wh the way Harris was handlg the bill.