Search results
Vermont was the first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage through legislative means rather than litigation. On June 3, 2009, New Hampshire by enacting legislation became the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, [51] effective January 1, 2010.
Jun 26, 2015 · This timeline highlights the changes in state policies leading up to that ruling, starting in 1995 – when Utah became the first state to enact a Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage following a ruling by the state’s highest court in 2003.
Jun 9, 2017 · In 2010, Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, found Section 3 of DOMA—the part of the 1996 law that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman—to be...
May 17, 2024 · Twenty years ago today, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Just after midnight on May 17, 2004, couples began filling out license applications at Cambridge...
6 November: Voters in the US states of Maine, Maryland, and Washington approve same-sex marriage laws in referendums, becoming the first jurisdictions in the world to legalize same-sex marriage through this process, while voters in the US state of Minnesota become the first to reject a constitutional amendment seeking to ban same-sex marriage ...
On November 6, 2012, Maine, Maryland, and Washington became the first states to legalize same-sex marriage through popular vote. Same-sex marriage had been legalized in the District of Columbia and 21 Native American tribal nations as well. The June 2013 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v.
Jun 26, 2015 · BOSTON (AP) — In Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, Friday's U.S. Supreme Court decision granting same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide drew an exuberant response from those who started the fight more than a decade ago.
