Louisville's LGBTQ history: Timele of KY gay, lbian and trans past

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY
• KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG
• GAY MARRIAGE
• KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT
• JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN GAY MARRIAGE BAN KY. DI

GAY MARRIAGE REGNIZED IN KENTUCKY

Gay Marriage Regnized In Kentucky, For NowKentucky, for the moment, regniz gay marriage. In a historic lg rhapg the fn of the Amerin fay, the Supreme Court on Friday validated bans on same-sex marriage Kentucky and across the untry, holdg that gays and lbians have the nstutnal right to urt led 5-4 that stat mt grant same-sex upl licens to marry and regnize such marriag performed other stat. Wrg for the majory, Jtice Anthony Kennedy said the same-sex marriage bans worked "a grave and ntug harm" agast gays and lbians and disrpected them.

Court of Appeals upheld bans on gay marriage Kentucky, Michigan, Oh and ntu after vioThe cisn is a victory for six gay and lbian upl om Kentucky and restat two lgs by late U. "Mart Cothran, senr analyst for the Fay Foundatn of Kentucky, which promoted the 2004 state nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage or s regnn, said the lg "has nothg to do wh terpretg the Constutn" and "everythg to do wh an ele ste of judg who thk they have the power to rewre .

KY. MOV QUICKLY TO ADOPT GAY MARRIAGE LG

Albert Mohler Jr., print of the Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, who helped lead the culture war agast gay marriage, said the cisn plac every relig stutn legal jeopardy that tends to "uphold the nvictns held by believers for lennia. "The majory opn, which Kennedy was joed by Jtic Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bar Gsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, says the right of same-sex upl to marry is protected by both the equal protectn clse of the Constutn and s guarantee of due before the lg, gays and lbians had the right to marry 37 stat and the District of Columbia, and nearly 72 percent of the U.

GAY MARRIAGE

Populatn lived those feral and state urts granted gays the right to marry 26 of those stat, vers only three that adopted by popular vote and eight through their state legislatur. That meant a cisn by the Supreme Court agast gay marriage would have dramatilly pared back where is ntu after vioThe lead se cid by the urt arose 2013 when Jim Obergefell of Ccnati married his longtime partner, John Arthur, Maryland, where such marriag were legal. When Arthur died of Lou Gehrig's disease, Oh refed to list Obergefell as his spoe on the ath certifite, and he Kentucky se was set motn Febary 2014 when Heyburn led for four gay and lbian upl, sayg that Kentucky mt regnize same-sex marriag performed stat where that is legal.

"One's belief to the ntrary, however scerely held, nnot alone jtify nyg a selected group their nstutnal rights, " he wrote, beg the first feral judge the South to throw out a gay marriage months later, lg for two gay upl, Heyburn stck down Kentucky's ban on licensg gay marriag the state. Circu Court of Appeals beme the first feral appeals urt to le agast gay marriage.

"Bhear, who on electn to his first term as ernor 2008 signed an executive orr prohibg discrimatn agast state employe who are gay or transgenr, refed to say where he stood personally on gay marriage.

KENTUCKY CLERK WHO SAID ‘NO’ TO GAY COUPL WON’T BE ALONE COURT

Bhear: Whether gay marriage performed elsewhere mt be regnized Kentucky.

Bhear: Whether gays and lbians should be able to marry Kentucky. Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

JUDGE WHO STCK DOWN GAY MARRIAGE BAN KY. DI

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.