Gay Marriage by State [Updated July 2023]

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE
• GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT
• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• GAY RIGHTS

GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE

Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people. Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.

Before Friday's lg, gay marriage had already been ma legal 37 stat and the District of Columbia — by eher legislative or voter actn or by feral urts that overturned state' bans.

As NPR's Na Totenberg reported when the Supreme Court heard the current se back April, nservative jtic had poted qutns for the attorneys: "Jtice Slia asked whether misters would be able to refe to marry two gay men.

GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL ALL 50 STAT: SUPREME COURT

He said, but that uld happen — uld happen that a mister would be forced to marry two gay men, vlatn of his beliefs.

The urt noted the change thkg, statg: "Well to the 20th century, many Stat nmned same-sex timacy as immoral, and homosexualy was treated as an illns.

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Qutns about the legal treatment of gays and lbians soon reached the urts, where they uld be discsed the formal disurse of the law. In a landmark cisn, the ne jtic of the US Supreme Court led that the US Constutn guarante marriage as a right for all, cludg gay and lbian upl. Wrg for the urt, Jtice Kennedy said gay and lbian upl have a fundamental right to marry: “no unn is more profound than marriage, for embodi the hight ials of love, fily, votn, sacrifice, and fay, ” he wrote.

Gay rights laws Ameri have evolved to allow — but some s ban — rights for gay, lbian and transgenr people on a range of issu, cludg marriage, hospal visatn, adoptn, hog, employment and school bullyg. The Supreme Court on Friday legalized same-sex marriage the Uned the 5-4 landmark cisn, the majory of jtic led that stat mt license same-sex marriag and also regnize gay marriag performed legally other stat. Kennedy, who wrote the urt's prev three cisns on gay rights, had been the likely cidg the cisn was hand down, 36 stat and the District of Columbia allowed gay upl to marry.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

Each district urt led the petners' favor, but the Sixth Circu bed the s and reversed the was possible for the jtic to le that 's unnstutnal to ny gay upl all of the rights and privileg of marriage whout requirg stat to allow them to arguably was the largt se remag the fal days of the urt's term before ends next Tuday. The Uned Stat joed 21 other untri legalizg gay marriage, cludg Argenta, Brazil and 1996, former Print Bill Clton signed ​the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to law, th banng feral regnn of same-sex marriage. Almost two s later, June 2013, the Supreme Court stck down DOMA by clarg unnstutnal bee barred feral regnn of gay rights.

The annual celebratn honors the 1969 Stonewall rts New York Cy, the birthplace of the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. As recently as five years ago, only 42 percent of rints said they favored same-sex marriage, acrdg to survey, which polled 2, 002 adults, also found that some groups ntued to be broadly opposed to gay marriage.

GAY RIGHTS

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.

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.

If the past week is any ditn, gay marriage is g to a state near you — and Monday, Oregon beme the 18th state to allow same-sex marriag. The next day, platiffs Montana filed the first challenge to the ban on gay marriage there, and the day after that, the same thg happened South Dakota — leavg North Dakota as the lone state wh a ban that hasn't been challenged. "There really is not another issue out there that has gaed so much support so fast, " said Charl Jough, natnal prs secretary for Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights anizatn that works for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr equal gas marriage equaly have been a victory for not jt gay upl, but for their sce Ben Wt and Pl Rummell of Portland, Ore., started fosterg an 8-year-old named Jay 2012, the ltle boy who had been passed om foster home to foster home had one qutn: "When am I gog to have a forever fay?