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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN
• THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI
• STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
• GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG
• HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED
• THIS MAP SHOWS HOW GAY MARRIAGE SPREAD ACROSS THE UNED STAT

GAY MARRIAGE STATE BY STATE: FROM A FEW STAT TO THE WHOLE NATN

Over the last two years, the number of stat thorizg gay marriage had expand rapidly bee of legislative cisns, referendums or urt orrs. Gay Marriage State by State: From a Few Stat to the Whole Natn. In 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl.

THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF GAY MARRIAGE AMERI

Supreme Court led all state bans on same-sex marriage unnstutnal, allowg gay and lbian upl to marry natnwi. 12, 2016More than three years after a Supreme Court cisn gave feral regnn to same-sex marriag performed stat that allowed them, the mographics of same-sex married upl largely rema a fact, no one has a five unt of gay married upl the Uned reason ’s hard to get a fix on the marriag is that tailed marriage rerds are not tracked at the feral level. It don’t rely on sampl as the cens do, but all the tax rerds difference is particularly important when to untg gay and lbian populatns.

The problem wh timatg gay and lbian populatns is that they reprent such a small actn of the total populatn; any mistak how people answered their cens forms are likely to ph the number of gay upl and, particular, gay married upl wildly out of fact, this is what happened the 2000 cens and aga 2010. One of the more tertg problems was that many straight upl were beg classified as gay bee of rrectly checked box on a cens form. This rulted, acrdg to some timat, as much as a 25 percent overunt of gay did the Cens Bure try to ntrol for this error?

So gay upl who crossed state borrs to marry, but lived stat that did not regnize gay marriage, were not allowed to file jotly on their state tax returns. Hodg, the 2015 Supreme Court cisn that regnized gay marriage all stat.

STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)

So the Treasury data is most likely unruntg same-sex marriag more than a dozen stat that did not regnize such marriag before the Obergefell the bt way to thk about the Treasury numbers is as a floor, lower than the hypothetilly perfect unt of gay marriage but the clost we’ve ever e to one. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 3 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Most Detailed Map Yet of Gay Marriage Ameri. Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, 2004.

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“The Supreme Court’s cisn is a huge victory for same-sex upl the US that will reverberate many untri that still ny people the right to marry the person they love, ” said Boris Dtrich, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights advocy director at Human Rights Watch.

GAY MARRIAGE CLARED LEGAL ACROSS THE US HISTORIC SUPREME URT LG

The Supreme Court’s cisn overturns the lower urt’s cisn, lg that the bans vlated the nstutnal right of gays and lbians to equal protectn unr the law. It immediately led to scen of jubilatn om ast to ast, as mpaigners, policians and everyday people – gay, straight and -between – hailed “a victory of love” lg, which Jtice Anthony Kennedy st the cidg vote, means the number of stat where gay marriage is legal will rise – albe after some stallg – om 37 to 50.

Photograph: Evan Golub/Demotix/CorbisThe crowd outsi the urt – ed, across the untry – epted joy after the lg was hand down, wh many longtime mpaigners cryg tears of joy and embracg their of “Love has won” reverberated among the hundreds gathered below the urt steps and across the street outsi the US Capol, as rabow flags tertwed wh the Amerin the crowd was California reprentative Mark Takano, an openly gay member of Congrs who scribed beg at the scene as both “profound and poted”. “The arc of history is que clear that the stggle for LGBT equaly is part of our civil rights, ” Takano sex marriage discrimatnJudd Proctor, a 65-year-old rint of Silver Sprg, Maryland, said he never thought he would live to see the day that gay marriage would be a nstutnal right.

HERE ARE THE STAT WHERE GAY COUPL CAN GET MARRIED

Photograph: Eric Gay/APRandy Johnson, a platiff one of the ncurrent s brought om Kentucky before the urt wh his partner Pl Campn, said he still had goosebumps, hours after their 20-year-old son had texted them two words: “We won.

Kathie DeNobriga, the mayor of Atlanta suburb Pe Lake who married her long-term partner out of state last year as one of the few openly gay policians the Amerin south, lled the urt lg “a victory of love opposn to fear”.

THIS MAP SHOWS HOW GAY MARRIAGE SPREAD ACROSS THE UNED STAT

”Legal same-sex weddgs were takg place for the first time on Friday across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Tennsee, even as the attorneys general Texas and Mississippi said marriag uld not take place attorney general Ken Paxton issued a long statement suggtg he would attempt to fight the legalisatn of gay marriage by assertg the “relig liberti” of clerks and officials.

He subsequently clarified that his office “is certaly not standg the way of the supreme urt’s cisn” gay upl waed at the state val rerds office New Orleans to get their marriage licens. ”But the five jtic the majory argued that privg them of marriage equaly “serve[d] to disrpect and subordate” gay and lbian people. ”The natn’s hight tribunal last weighed marriage equaly 2012, wh challeng to California’s effective ban on same-sex marriag, known as Proposn 8, and a key provisn of the feral Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) jtic then led favor of marriage equaly proponents, but ducked the qutn of whether gay marriage was a nstutnal right.

“It is hard for me to see now that any urt, anywhere, state or feral, uld possibly tolerate discrimatn agast gay people on any basis. 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.