A lot has changed the s sce the Supreme Court dismissed a gay marriage se for lack of a "substantial feral qutn" the 1970s. Now that the urt has once aga weighed on the issue of gay marriage, here's a look at how the bate has touched Amerin life.
Contents:
- HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
- 2013: THE YEAR OF GAY MARRIAGE?
- TIMELE: GAY MARRIAGE IN LAW, POP CULTURE AND THE COURTS
HOW 2013 BEME THE GREATT YEAR IN GAY RIGHTS HISTORY
From the Whe Hoe and the Supreme Court on down, gay rights advot have won a strg of victori this year. Many Amerins rema opposed to same-sex marriage, but support for gays and gay marriage has been risg — particularly among young people. * gay marriage in 2013 *
Prr to last year's electns, gays and lbians had a civil right to marry only six stat. "This year reprented the te tippg pot, " says Eric Marc, thor of Makg Gay History. " This has been "the gayt year gay history, " the words of Fred Saz, vice print of the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, and not only bee dividual stat and the U.
2013: THE YEAR OF GAY MARRIAGE?
Supreme Court have extend greater protectns to gay upl. There have been substantive chang policy and personnel, wh Print Obama sentially doublg the number of openly gay dividuals who have served as feral judg and ambassadors. This year has also seen symbolic ton, cludg Obama enshrg the e of gays the civil rights pantheon his send gural addrs, and the first profsnal athlet major sports g out.
None of which is to suggt that anti-gay discrimatn has gone away entirely, or that all Amerins are on board wh the trends.
But an earlier Pew survey found that a majory of gay marriage opponents viewed s legal regnn as "evable. " And gay rights advot almost n't believe the progrs they've already ma. A Long Time Comg As wh any great societal change, this year's victori for the gay rights movement took a long time to gtate.
TIMELE: GAY MARRIAGE IN LAW, POP CULTURE AND THE COURTS
Gays and lbians had once plaed about feelg visible, but as lns of dividuals have e out, they not only have ma their polil sir more tangible but also have won sympathetic alli among many straights. "It took the shape of a ln different nversatns that a newly out gay fay member had wh her parents or his siblgs, " Kenll says. Jt as the prence of gays Amerin life me to seem more monplace, so did same-sex marriage.
"It took a long time for those gay marriage announcements to be route, " Harris says. " By the time Democrat Tammy Baldw of Wisns was sworn this year as the first openly gay senator U.
Heather Mizr, an openly gay Maryland Democrat nng for ernor next year.