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In 1996, the United States Congress passed and President Bill Clinton signed Public Law 104–199, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Section 3 of DOMA defines "marriage" and "spouse" for purposes of both federal law and any ruling, regulation, or interpretation by an administrative bureau or agency of the United States government. [1]
A newlywed same-sex couple celebrate their marriage in New Orleans in 2017.. The history of same-sex marriage in the United States dates from the early 1970s, when the first lawsuits seeking legal recognition of same-sex relationships brought the question of civil marriage rights and benefits for same-sex couples to public attention, though they proved unsuccessful. [10]
History of same-sex marriage legal status, 1971-2015, with influential legal decisions. Plot shows proportion of US states and the District of Columbia with: historical/traditional definition of marriage (gray); legislation enacted to ban same-sex marriage (blue); constitutional bans on same-sex marriage (yellow, includes states that also have legislative ban); statewide legal same-sex ...
The movement to obtain marriage rights for same-sex couples expanded steadily from that time until in late 2014 lawsuits had been brought in every state that still denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples. By late 2014, same-sex marriage had become legal in states that contained more than 70% of the United States population. In some ...
Here is where same-sex marriage is legal: Since 2001, when the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage, there have been ramped-up efforts worldwide to pass similar ...
A rainbow flag in support of gay rights flies in front of the Supreme Court in 2015. (Astrid Riecken for the Washington Post via Getty Images) (The Washington Post via Getty Im)
This article summarizes the same-sex marriage laws of states in the United States. Via the case Obergefell v.Hodges on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States legalized same-sex marriage in a decision that applies nationwide, with the exception of American Samoa and sovereign tribal nations.
2 April: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. [383] 21 May: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. [384] 24 May: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Taiwan, the first Asian country to do so. [385] 11 June: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. [386]