New York beme the sixth and largt state to legalize same-sex marriage after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill to law late Friday night. Gay weddgs will beg 30 days.
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]
A graphed timele of 1994-2015 of when gay marriage was legalized each state of the US, and when was banned. * 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.
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 *
California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
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 *
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.
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.
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 *
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.
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 STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
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.
NEW YORK BE THE SIXTH STATE TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
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.