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A December poll revealed that 32% supported the concept of civil unions, 31% would offer full marriage rights to same-sex couples, and 30% opposed any legal recognition for gay and lesbian partnerships. In a July 17 poll by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, 55 percent opposed same-sex marriage, and 36 percent were in favor.
Approval of same-sex marriage is even higher in younger generations; among 18-34 year olds, according to the General Social Survey, support is near-universal. A 2021 Public Religion Research Institute poll of the states found majority support for same-sex marriage in 47 states, ranging from 50% in South Carolina to 85% in Massachusetts.
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).
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.
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 ...
Same-sex marriages accounted for 17% of all marriages, and 62% of those were between women. [38] By December 31, 2015, approximately 15,750 same-sex marriages had been performed in Washington, a significant proportion of which occurred in the first 12 months of legalisation. [39] 2,091 same-sex marriages were performed in 2016, 1,915 in 2017 ...
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.
A former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples a decade ago is appealing a ruling ordering her to pay thousands in attorney fees. The appeal filed by ...