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Here are all the ways marriage equality has been 'unambiguously positive' for America

The study from the RAND Corp. comes 20 years after the first legal marriages for same-sex couples took place in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey nominates former partner for high court, raises GOP ire

Healey has nominated Gabrielle Wolohojian to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Reflecting on 20 Years of Making the Impossible Possible – and the Challenges Ahead

On the anniversary of Massachusetts's ruling on marriage equality, Mary Bonauto, the lead counsel for the same-sex couples involved in the case, writes about how LGBTQ+ history was made and how to keep going.

20 Years Ago Today Massachusetts Made History by Ruling in Favor of Marriage Equality

The ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court made Massachusetts the first in the nation with equal marriage rights.

Massachusetts high court considers legality of marriage ballot initiative

Today the Massachusetts supreme judicial court in Boston hears a challenge to a ballot initiative on same-sex marriage that would go before voters in 2008.

Massachusetts court to hear lawsuit over nonresident same-sex marriages

On Thursday the Massachusetts supreme judicial court will hear arguments on the denial of marriage licenses to eight out-of-state gay couples. At issue is a 1913 law that forbids out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union would not be legally recognized in their own state.

Same-sex marriage ban advances in Massachusetts

Lawmakers in Massachusetts voted on Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to move forward.

Massachusetts governor urges legislative vote on same-sex marriage issue

Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to order an anti-same-sex marriage measure onto the ballot if legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.

Massachusetts judge approves marriage there for Rhode Island gays

A lesbian couple from Rhode Island has the right to marry in Massachusetts because laws in their home state do not expressly prohibit same-sex marriage, a judge in Boston ruled Friday.

Gov. Romney Didn't Know Gay People Had Families

While his state's high court considered the case that led to marriage equality in Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney told the plaintiff he didn't care what reason she gave her daughter as to why her moms couldn't marry.