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The Pew Research Center similarly found 40% in 2010, 50% in 2013 and 61% in 2019. [212] As of 2016, 83% of Americans aged 18–29 supported same-sex marriage. [213] As of 2021, there is majority support for same-sex marriage in 47 states, ranging from 50% in South Carolina to 85% in Massachusetts.
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.
60–69%. 50–59%. 49% (plurality support) Public opinion of same-sex marriage in the United States has significantly changed since the 1990s, [2] and an overwhelming majority of Americans now favor same-sex marriage. [3] Approval of same-sex marriage is higher in younger generations; [4] among 18–34 year olds, support is near-universal. [5]
Vermont. Virginia. Washington. West Virginia. Wisconsin. Wyoming. Same-sex marriage law in the United States by state. List of U.S. state and territorial statutes and codes, along with the Code of the District of Columbia, recognizing or prohibiting same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships.
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 ...
California Supreme Court overturns Proposition 22 and rules that in 30 days, same-sex marriages must be legal. [506] Yes. Same-sex marriage licenses issued in California from June 17, 2008, to November 5, 2008 On November 5, 2008, Proposition 8 goes into effect banning same-sex marriage in the Constitution of California.
The veteran gay rights and gay marriage activist Evan Wolfson has called these claims "historic revisionism". In a July 2, 2011, editorial The New York Times opined, "The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments."
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. Prior to 26 June 2015, same-sex marriages were legal in the District of Columbia, Guam, and thirty-six states.