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Gallup found that nationwide public support for same-sex marriage reached 50% in 2011, [6] 60% in 2015, [7] and 70% in 2021. [8] In the 2020 United States census, same-sex married couples accounted for 0.5% of all U.S. households while unmarried same-sex couples accounted for 0.4% of all U.S. households.
2020–present. A 2024 Gallup poll found that 69% of Americans (83% of Democrats, 74% of independents and 46% of Republicans) supported same-sex marriage, while 29% opposed it. [20] A 2023 New York Times / Siena poll found that 70% of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 22% opposed it.
The issue of marriage had enough appeal within the gay and lesbian community that in April 1993, as part of the demonstrations surrounding the gay rights march in Washington, D.C., about 1,500 same-sex couples staged a mass wedding ceremony with "a dozen ministers, organ music, photographers and rice" at the National Museum of Natural History ...
In response to court action in a number of states, the United States federal government and a number of state legislatures passed or attempted to pass legislation either prohibiting or allowing same-sex marriage or other types of same-sex unions. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Obergefell v.
t. e. Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2024, marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 36 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
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.
March 3: Washington, D.C.'s statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect. [155] April 1: The 2010 United States census becomes the first to track same-sex-led households, both married and unmarried. [156] July 8: Judge Joseph Tauro of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts holds in two related cases ( Gill v.
On 26 June 2015, the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, thereby making same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States. [73] Prior to 26 June 2015, same-sex marriages were legal in the District of Columbia, Guam, and thirty-six states.