When did the us make gay marriage legal
Since the Netherlands became the first country to authorize same-sex marriage 12 years ago, many countries own followed suit.
France is the latest and supporters of gay marriage dream it will soon eliminate the final legal hurdles in Britain.
But where in the world can same-sex couples already receive married?
Just after midnight on 1 April 2001, four couples - Anne-Marie Thus and Helene Faasen, and three male couples - were married by the mayor of Amsterdam, Career Cohen, in the first legal gay marriage ceremony in the world.
"We are so ordinary, if you saw us on the street you'd just saunter right past us," said Ms Thus of the fuss over the televised City Hall ceremony.
"The only thing that's going to take some getting used to is calling her my spouse."
Denmark was the first country to present civil partnerships for lgbtq+ couples, in 1989, but it stopped short of allowing church weddings.
Countries including Norway, Sweden and Iceland followed suit in allowing partnerships offering many - but not all - of the rights and
Gay marriage declared legal across the US in historic supreme court ruling
Same-sex marriages are now legal across the entirety of the United States after a historic supreme court decision that declared attempts by conservative states to exclude them unconstitutional.
In what may prove the most significant civil rights case in a generation, five of the nine court justices determined that the right to marriage equality was enshrined under the matching protection clause of the 14th amendment.
Victory in the case – known as Obergefell v Hodges, after an Ohio man who sued the state to get his name listed on his late husband’s death certificate – capped years of campaigning by LGBT rights activists, high-powered attorneys and couples waiting decades for the justices to rule. It immediately led to scenes of jubilation from coast to coast, as campaigners, politicians and everyday people – gay, straight and in-between – hailed “a victory of love”.
The ruling, in which Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the deciding vote,means the number of states where gay marriage is legal will rise – albeit after some stalling – from 37 to 50.
“They ask for identical dignity in the eyes of the law,” Kennedy wrote in
Date Same Sex Marriage Legalized By State
All 50 states in the United States have legalized same-sex marriage. Below are the dates when each state did so. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a right guaranteed by the Constitution, thus making same-sex marriage legal in the 13 states that have not legalized same-sex marriage up to that point.
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