Factbox: List of stat that legalized gay marriage | Rters

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE
• STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
• FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi.

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr.

STATE-BY-STATE HISTORY OF BANNG AND LEGALIZG GAY MARRIAGE

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. Gay Marriage by State.

Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage.

STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS

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:. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman. The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U.

District Court judge led that the state’s nstutnal amendment banng gay marriag had no “legimate purpose. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu later overturned the lg, restatg gay marriage bans Kentucky and four other stat. A state urt judge led November that Missouri’s 2004 nstutnal ban on gay marriage was illegal.

FACTBOX: LIST OF STAT THAT LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE

Lawmakers this week said the legislatn is a direct rponse to a suggtn om Supreme Court Jtice Clarence Thomas last month that landmark Supreme Court cisns on same-sex marriage, sex between gay upl and the right to ntraceptn should be revised followg the urt’s reversal of Roe v. Stat & DC Have Legal Gay Marriage. The rmatn below reflects the stat of gay marriage natnwi on June 25, 2015, the day prr to the Supreme Court’s cisn.

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. Washgton, DC legalized gay marriage on Mar. Stat where gay marriage bans had been overturned, but where appeals were progrs prr to the June 26, 2015 Supreme Court lg.

GAY MARRIAGE

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.