A graphed timele of 1994-2015 of when gay marriage was legalized each state of the US, and when was banned.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
- STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- ARE GAY MARRIAG LEGAL IN ALL 50 STAT?
- GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
- NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
* newest state to legalize gay marriage *
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. 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.
STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
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. * newest state to legalize 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.
GAY MARRIAGE
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 * newest state to legalize gay marriage *
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?
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * newest state to legalize gay marriage *
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. 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.
They clud Judh Kasen-Wdsor, widow of gay rights activist Edie Wdsor; Matthew Hayn, -owner of Club Q, the LGBTQ club Colorado Sprgs where a gunman last month killed five people a mass shootg; Club Q shootg survivors Jam Slgh and Michael Anrson; and a number of platiffs om s that culmated the landmark civil rights se Obergefell vs. Philanthropist and Democratic donor David Boht, who has been an outspoken gay- and transgenr-rights activist and longtime supporter of Bin, told CNN that Tuday’s bill signg uld not e at a more ccial moment. “[Bin] has monstrated his support for s for lbian and gay civil rights, and Tuday’s signg to law is a reaffirmatn of that durg this time when rights are unr asslt, ” Boht said.
The rmatn below reflects the stat of gay marriage natnwi on June 25, 2015, the day prr to the Supreme Court’s cisn.
GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
3, 2015, the Alabama Supreme Court orred the state’s 68 probate judg to stop issug marriage licens to same-sex upl, spe an earlier feral urt lg that stck down the state’s gay marriage ban, and the US Supreme Court’s cisn to allow same-sex marriag to proceed the state. Stat where gay marriage bans had been overturned, but where appeals were progrs prr to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court lg.
ARKANSAS – On May 9, 2014, Arkansas’ gay marriage ban was led unnstutnal by Pulaski County Circu Judge Chris Piazza. Arkansas had prevly banned gay marriage by both state law and voter-approved nstutnal amendment. The Supreme Court effectively halted gay marriag om takg place, however, by notg that while Judge Piazza’s lg had stck down both the nstutnal amendment and the state law, had not affected an addnal state law prohibg unty clerks om issug same-sex marriage licens.
On May 15, 2014, Judge Piazza expand his lg to strike down the addnal law and any other measur that ma gay marriage illegal, but on May 16, 2014 the State Supreme Court spend that lg, haltg all gay marriag wh the state. 25, 2014, US District Judge Kriste Baker led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed her own lg, pendg expected appeals. Heyburn II led that Kentucky’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage vlat the equal protectn clse the US Constutn.
NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Heyburn’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban. 16, 2015, Frankl County Circu Judge Thomas Wgate led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but put his lg on hold, pendg the Supreme Court’s cisn. 6, 2014, a three-judge panel of the Sixth US Circu Court of Appeals overturned Judge Friedman’s lg 2-1, th upholdg the state’s gay marriage ban.
25, 2014, US District Judge Carlton Reev led the state’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, but stayed his own lg, pendg expected appeals. Louis Circu Judge Rex Burlison led that the state’s gay marriage ban is unnstutnal. 2, 2015, US District Judge Joseph Bataillon clared Nebraska’s gay marriage ban unnstutnal, scribg as an “unabashedly genr-specific gement of the equal rights of s cizens.