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.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
- WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
- GAY MARRIAGE
- STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
* which state is gay marriage legal *
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. Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.
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.
WHAT IS THE STATE OF GAY MARRIAGE THE US?
Gay Marriage by State. Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage.
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. The followg stat have not legalized gay marriage:.
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. 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.
STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else.
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.