As now, gay marriage is legal all 50 stat the Uned Stat. This marks a signifint tone the LGBTI+ rights movement, as same-sex marriage was not regnized any state until 2003
Contents:
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- ARE GAY MARRIAG LEGAL IN ALL 50 STAT?
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
The first lawsus volvg same-sex marriage, also lled gay marriage, started the 1970s, brgg the qutn of civil marriage rights for same-sex upl to public attentn.
Del Mart and Phyllis Lyon bee the first gay uple to marry and receive official regnn after beg together for 50 years. Thirty-seven stat have legalized gay marriage, wh rtrictns Kansas, Missouri, and Alabama. By one vote, the urt l that same-sex marriage nnot be banned the Uned Stat and that all same-sex marriag mt be regnized natnwi, fally grantg same-sex upl equal rights to heterosexual upl unr the 1971, jt two years after the Stonewall Rts that unofficially marked the begng of the stggle for gay rights and marriage equaly, the Mnota Supreme Court had found same-sex marriage bans nstutnal, a precent which the Supreme Court had never challenged.
ARE GAY MARRIAG LEGAL IN ALL 50 STAT?
As homosexualy gradually beme more accepted Amerin culture, the nservative backlash was strong enough to force Print Bill Clton to sign the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), prohibg the regnn of same-sex marriag at the feral level, to law 1996. Gay marriage was the predomant "culture war" issue of Gee W. Obergefell origated wh a gay uple, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur, who were married Maryland, where same-sex marriage was legal, but whose marriage was not regnized by Oh thori.
It also requir stat and the feral ernment to rpect gay marriag the stat where is the seven years sce the Obergefell cisn, same-sex marriag have bee more mon, but the chang have differed by has the number of same-sex marriag changed over time? In the years after Massachetts beme the first state to legally regnize same-sex marriage 2004, gay marriage legalizatn efforts picked up other 2011, there were around 168, 000 married same-sex upl the US. As now, gay marriage is legal all 50 stat the Uned Stat.
This landmark cisn ma gay marriage legal all 50 stat and tablished that same-sex upl had the same fundamental right to marry as oppose-sex upl.
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
In addn to the 50 stat, the District of Columbia also allows gay marriage.