As the Supreme Court nsirs the nstutnal se for gay marriage, we look back at the role Vermont played jt 13 years ago the historic metamorphosis of the issue. The state's ernor, who wore a bulletproof vt that year, lled "the least civil public bate the state over a century."
Contents:
- HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
- VERMONT BE 4TH U.S. STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER OR QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL (LGBTQIA+) RIGHTS
- VERMONT LAWMAKERS LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- MOVG TO GAY VERMONT? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
HOW VERMONT'S 'CIVIL' WAR FUELED THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT
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About 7% of adults said they nsired themselv to be lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or somethg “other than heterosexual” 2021, pared to 3. Gay bars and other LGBTQ-specific spac are also few and far between.
VERMONT BE 4TH U.S. STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
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HistoryHomosexual activy Vermont? Homosexual activy Vermont is legal. Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Vermont?
It wasn't so long ago that a handful of Vermont legislators a shabby Statehoe mtee room stggled over what to ll their proposal to give marriage-like rights to the state's gay and lbian rints. But the Legislature Montpelier approved An Act Relatg to Civil Unns, and Dean quietly signed later that sprg, makg the first law the natn to extend marriage-like rights of any kd to gay and lbian upl. Ten stat followed Vermont's early civil unns example and extend to gay upl an array of spoal rights siar to, but short of, marriage.
Most recent polls show that though 31 stat have banned same-sex marriage, a growg majory of Amerins — cludg Print Obama — support marriage law equaly for gay cizens. A Shotgun 'Marriage' Late December 1999, Vermont's high urt jtic cid that two lbian upl and one gay uple were rrect argug that state law nfg marriage to heterosexuals was discrimatory.
LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER OR QUESTIONING, INTERSEX, ASEXUAL (LGBTQIA+) RIGHTS
Vermont legalized gay marriage on Tuday after lawmakers overro a veto om the ernor by a wafer-th marg, makg the New England state the fourth the Uned Stat where gays n wed. * gay marriage vermont *
The job to figure out fell to the Hoe Judiciary Commtee, whose members clud Lippert, then the only openly gay member of the Legislature, and Republin Rep.
At heargs, anti-civil unn activists nounced gays and lbians as abomatns, people who were sure to experience the wrath of God. They warned that approvg civil unns would stabilize "tradnal" marriage" and allow outsirs wh a "homosexual agenda" to propel the state down an immoral path of no return. Nancy Sheltra, brought anti-gay, anti-abortn activist Randall Terry, who ran his operatn out of a storeont jt down the street om the Statehoe.
"It was the most tense nversatn ever about the place of gay and lbian people our muni. They spoke of their fai, some talked about their gay children, and of the Constutn's guarantee of equal protectn unr the law.
VERMONT LAWMAKERS LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
The Vermont Legislature on Tuday legalized gay marriage the state by overridg the ernor’s veto. * gay marriage vermont *
"I knew that Bill [Lippert] was gay, and we'd talked about our fai, you know, Bill's fay, his partner, " Edwards says. "This was a world that was pletely foreign to me, " Dean, the former ernor, said a 2011 terview wh Vermont Public Televisn scribg his own "sual homophobia" lookg back at the civil unns bate. "I was unfortable wh gay people, " he told terviewer Christopher Graff, "and wh gay marriage.
" For Lippert, the opportuny to help change how gay and lbian people were viewed was one for the ag. "I was grateful that I had an opportuny to be the voice or to be the face of all the gay and lbian people that I knew, " he said. " Not once, he says now, did he wish he weren't the only openly gay member of the Legislature attemptg to rry out one of the most difficult jobs the state's history.
How Vermont's 'Civil' War Fueled The Gay Marriage Movement. "You uld have heard a p drop that buildg, and there were a lot of people there that night, " says Sneyd, also openly gay at the time and now news director at Vermont Public Rad and, wh his partner, proprietor of a bed and breakfast.
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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. * gay marriage vermont *
"There remas afoot Vermont prejudice agast gay men and lbians.... That those who stand bi gay and lbian people as their alli... " Gay and lbian Vermonters, he said, are your iends, neighbors and relativ who simply want the rights that everyone else has.
No Change/Much Change Vermont weathered the civil unns bate, and the nversatn years later over s gay marriage bill was largely wng of the earlier vrl. "I don't thk anyone who's not teractg wh the var forms of the gay muny will have noticed a huge difference, " he said, "but was never about a difference we would notice. Lippert, however, now one of a half-dozen openly gay Vermont legislators, has another take.
MOVG TO GAY VERMONT? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
" Both men are nvced that what Vermont went through — the agonizg nversatns, the vrl and ugls, the tears and the moments of grace — set a new urse for gay rights and ret the nversatn for those that would e after across the natn.