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.
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HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
Celebratn outsi the Supreme Court on June 26, 2015, when gay marriage was legalized natnwi. On June 26, 2015, the US Supreme Court led that gay marriage is a right protected by the US Constutn all 50 stat. US public opn has shifted signifintly over the years, om 27% approval of gay marriage 1996 to 55% 2015, the year beme legal throughout the Uned Stat, to 61% 2019.
Proponents of legal gay marriage ntend that gay marriage bans are discrimatory and unnstutnal, and that same-sex upl should have accs to all the benefs enjoyed by different-sex upl. Gay Rights, 1960-1980s. The gay rights movement the US n be traced back to the Stonewall Rts that occurred followg a police raid on the Stonewall Inn New York Cy at 3 a.
Police raids on gay bars were monplace, but on this ocsn the gay and lbian patrons fought back and sparked days of protts.
GAY MARRIAGE
The Stonewall Rts marked the begng of a polil movement for gay rights durg a time when was illegal to have homosexual sex all stat except for Illois. [21] Between 1969 and 1974, the number of gay anizatns the untry swelled om fewer than 50 to nearly a thoand. Gay-rights activism the 1970s foced more on personal liberatn and visibily than on gag accs to stutns such as marriage.
While some gay activists sought the right to marry the early 1970s, others rejected marriage as “heterosexist” and saw as an outdated stutn. [23] The gay liberatn movement achieved a victory Dec. 1973 when the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn classified homosexualy as a mental disorr and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn did the same 1975.
The creased visibily of the gay muny prompted a well publicized backlash by opponents of gay-rights. One high-profile opponent of gay rights was sger and former Miss Oklahoma Ana Bryant who found the group Save Our Children and mpaigned to repeal lol ordanc that prohibed discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.