Lawyer Reflects On Natn's First Gay Marriag: 'The Cage Had Been Lifted' : NPR

Contents:

• LAWYER REFLECTS ON NATN'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG: 'THE CAGE HAD BEEN LIFTED'
• REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

LAWYER REFLECTS ON NATN'S FIRST GAY MARRIAG: 'THE CAGE HAD BEEN LIFTED'

Massachetts' "gay marriage" cisn. Hog and mortgag for gay and lbian upl, Mortgage. How to get married Massachetts, Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs (GLAD), July 2015.

A legal gui for lbian and gay upl by Frerick Hertz, Nolo, 2020.

REFLECTG ON MASSACHETTS' HISTORIC GAY RIGHTS LG, 15 YEARS LATER: ANALYSIS

Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr fay law, Thomson Rters, Annual. Morn fai: effective advocy for lbian and gay clients, MCLE, 2013.

The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens. Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts. The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference.

“I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

It had been six months sce her arguments had persuad Massachetts' hight urt to allow the natn's first legal gay marriag, but opponents were still tryg to stop the weddgs before they started. Early Fights Barney Frank, an openly gay former ngrsman, lls Bonto "the LGBT muny's equivalent of Thurgood Marshall" — a brilliant polil strategist for the way she methodilly built the se for gay marriage, one state at a time. Almost immediately after she began workg 1990 for the gay advocy group GLAD (Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs) Boston, clients started askg Bonto to sue for gay marriage.

Bonto wh Edward Balmelli and Michael Han, platiffs the landmark se that legalized gay marriage Massachetts.

' You uldn't e 'gay people' and 'civil rights' the same sentence.

GAY MARRIAGE MASSACHETTS

" In that ntext, Bonto says, gay marriage was a pipe dream. By the late 1990s, after seeg an almost-w for gay marriage Hawaii and gettg her own almost-w Vermont (that end civil unns stead of marriage), Bonto was ready to go for Massachetts.

"At the same time, I felt that simply allowg gay people to ntue to suffer was not acceptable. Perhaps nowhere more so than at the Massachetts Statehoe, where opponents were phg for a nstutnal ban on gay marriage.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

But setbacks ntued as well, like when voters nixed gay marriage Mae, where Bonto was livg wh her wife and tw girls.

He lls Bonto astute and profsnal, but says her legal arguments, which he nsirs flty, laid the foundatn for what he lls today's "tolerance for anyone who dar oppose gay marriage. For her part, Bonto dismiss suggtns that a new orthodoxy on gay marriage leav no room for dissent. Rather, she says, opponents simply lost steam once gay marriag started to happen.

As she puts , gay marriage is actually the bt se for gay marriage. Recently, some wh the gay muny have been tslg over who the movement's te hero are.

Same-sex upl n marry 17 stat and the District of Columbia, but still, there are more stat where gay upl are not allowed to marry than where they are. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File PhotoLIMA, July 21 (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated. Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay.

However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years. Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi.

The measure put gay and lbian marriag on hold the state, but a feral appeals urt 2010 emed Proposn 8 unnstutnal.