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The first to wed in Cambridge were Tanya McCloskey and Marcia Kadish at 9:15 a.m. [87] Cambridge City Clerk Margaret Drury was the first city clerk in the U.S. to perform a legal same-sex marriage. [88] Massachusetts has a three-day waiting period before issuing marriage licenses, but many couples obtained waivers of the waiting period in order ...
On April 11, 2001, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) sued the Massachusetts Department of Health in Superior Court on behalf of seven same-sex couples, all residents of Massachusetts, who had been denied marriage licenses in March and April 2001. All the plaintiffs had been in long-term relationships with their partners and four of ...
The SJC replied that civil unions were insufficient, and civil marriage was required. The legislature made no further action, and the stay expired on May 17, 2004. The state began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples the same day. This decision was one of the first in the world to find that same-sex couples have a right to marry.
After the 2003 decision, 36 states and Washington, D.C., followed Massachusetts in legalizing same-sex marriage. In June 2015, the Supreme Court ruled remaining state bans on same-sex marriage ...
The U.S. state of Massachusetts is one of the most LGBTQ-supportive states in the country. [3] In 2004, it became the first U.S. state to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the decision in Goodridge v.
When same-sex marriage was legalized in the U.S., opponents said it would undermine traditional marriage and destabilize families. So what actually happened? Q&A: These researchers examined 20 ...
The first legal same-sex marriage ceremony in the United States happened on February 12, 2004 between Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, when mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom ordered city hall to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This decision resulted in the celebration of the first gay marriage in the United States, when Martin and ...
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