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The vast majority of Americans opposed same-sex marriage on May 17, 2004, when the first same-sex couples took their vows after a court decision in Massachusetts. Well, times have changed.
“Vann and I are excited to share that we’re married!” Pappas announced on Twitter.
The court will be asked whether marriage equality rights recognized in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision can be retroactively applied to unmarried couples.
The court’s LGBTQ+ decisions have given our community cause for celebration as well as cause for despair. Here’s a look back at these rulings.
In the years since, the LGBTQ+ community has seen tremendous strides in the push toward equality, but much work remains to protect the rights of marginalized people.
The Texas senator has long been a marriage equality foe, but he's taking the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade to make his case.
The legendary civil rights activist will attend a White House Pride celebration on the day of the anniversary.
The justices marked the two-year anniversary of their Obergefell ruling with a summary ruling that repeatedly cited it.
Arkansas is the latest Southern state to declare war against same-sex marriage and parenting.
In an exclusive interview with The Advocate Evan Wolfson talks about the likelihood of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning marriage equality.
Some 823,000 married queer couples live in the U.S. today, double the number from before the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land.
Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members opened the court's term with that assertion.
Barring some highly improbable miracle, marriage equality will probably not exist nationally by 2024 -- possibly 2025 at the latest.
A secret deal between Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy still has implications today.
“I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.
The justices will meet on Friday to consider whether to grant Kim Davis a hearing on her challenge to marriage equality.
The court's notoriously homophobic chief justice calls the Obergefell ruling "lawless" but says he has to abide by it.
The U.S. Senate is set to take up the bill Wednesday.
Opinion: "Today, we are seeing a massive attack on the rights of LGBTQ+ people. Since 2022, an astounding 1,903 bills aimed at restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ people have been introduced – at least one in each of our 50 state legislatures. 220 have become law in 27 states," writes Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings.
The justices will meet privately this week to decide whether they will hear the former Kentucky clerk's latest appeal.
LGBTQ+ people would face something Barrett herself cautioned against: "a shallow and unfulfilling life," says the marriage equality plaintiff.
