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.
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GAY MARRIAGE
Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed.
Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996). 4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
Is among 29 untri and jurisdictns that allow gay and lbian upl to wed. The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000.
Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.