Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States

• In Grand Rapids, Michigan, male impersonator Annie Hindle married her dresser Annie Ryan while on a tour through the mid-west. Hindle dressed in male clothing and gave her name as Charles and a local Baptist minister performed the ceremony.[https://books.google.com/books?id=TdSJAwAAQBAJ&q=annie+hindle+new+york+sun&pg=PA124 The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater]. San Francisco, California: Cleis Press, Inc. 2004. pp. 123–124. ISBN 9781573441988. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

• August: Shipment of the August 1953 issue of ONE magazine, with the cover story "Homosexual Marriage?", is delayed by U.S Post Office officials for three weeks while they try to determine whether its contents are obscene.{{cite news|last1=Mauro|first1=Tony|title=High Court's First Gay-Issues Ruling|url=http://m.nationallawjournal.com/module/alm/app/nlj.do#!/article/1727646081|access-date=January 12, 2015|work=National Law Journal|date=December 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150121024140/http://m.nationallawjournal.com/module/alm/app/nlj.do#!/article/1727646081|archive-date=January 21, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

===1958===

• January 13, 1958: In One, Inc. v. Olesen, the United States Supreme Court rules that homosexual writings cannot be banned from mailing under the guise of obscenity.

• A woman in Jess Stearn's popular non-fiction work The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian explains that she congratulated two men on their wedding because "Having no status in the law of the land...the homosexual marriage must be maintained only through mutual love and devotion of those involved."{{cite book|last1=Stearn |first1=Jess|title=The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian|date=1964|publisher=Doubleday & Company |location=NY |url=https://www.google.com/search?q=Stearn+grapevine+%22only+through+the+mutual+love%22&btnG=Search+Books |access-date=January 15, 2015|page=116}}

• Publishers Weekly reports that Jean Genet's The Miracle of the Rose "delicately describes a secret homosexual marriage".{{cite journal|title=Miracle of the Rose|journal=Publishers Weekly|date=1966|volume=189 |issue=10–17 |page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbspAQAAIAAJ&q=%22homosexual+marriage%22|access-date=January 15, 2015}}

• December 3: Theologians who object to acceptance of homosexual relationships are reported to be "dubious about how 'fulfilling' even a lasting homosexual relationship can be and point out that a homosexual 'marriage' lacks the discipline and formal commitment of legal sanctions".{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/12/03/84992192.pdf | access-date = June 9, 2017 | date = December 3, 1967 | title = Religion: Views on Homosexuals | last = Fiske | first = Edward B.}}

• December 22: A report in the New York Times says the plot of Spitting Image, a play scheduled for Off Broadway in February, involves "a pair of homosexuals who marry and have a baby". It calls the premise "farcical" and an "outrageous charade".{{cite news | work = New York Times | date = December 22, 1968 | access-date = June 8, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/12/22/295048342.pdf | first = Lewis | last = Funke | title = Never Too Late for 'Angela' }}

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The modern gay movement for PRIDE and marriage equality in the United States began on the Minneapolis campus (U of M) of the University of Minnesota.Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "America’s First Gay Marriage" (binder #7), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.

• University president Eric Kaler apologized to McConnell for the treatment inflicted by the Board of Regents in 1970.
• 22 June 2012: Anon., "News", University News Service. "U of M President Eric Kaler has called McConnell's treatment reprehensible, regrets that it occurred and says that the university's actions at that time were not consistent with the practices enforced today at the university."
• 17 February 2020: McConnell received a letter from Robert Burgett (Senior Vice President, University of Minnesota Foundation) announcing his enrollment as a member of the Heritage Society of the President's Club. James Michael McConnell, librarian,Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "Full Equality, a diary" (volumes 5a-e), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.
• March 1967: On Baker's 25th Birthday, McConnell insisted that he would accept Baker's invitation to be lovers if, and only if, he could find a way for the relationship to be recognized as a "legal" marriage.
• June 1970: University Librarian mailed an offer of employment to McConnell.
• July 1970: James F. Hogg (Secretary, the Board of Regents) arranged for a letter to be delivered to McConnell:
• The Board accepted the recommendation of its Executive Committee "That the appointment of Mr. J. M. McConnell to the position of the Head of the Cataloging Division of the St. Paul Campus Library at the rank of Instructor not be approved on the grounds that his personal conduct, as represented in the public and University news media, is not consistent with the best interest of the University."
• 1971: A federal court of appeals allowed such discrimination to continue.
• 1972: Hennepin County Library, then a diverse and growing system of 26 facilities, hired McConnell. and Richard John Baker,Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "Full Equality, a diary", (volumes 6a-b), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.
• As a student body president (elected 1971, re-elected 1972), he was known by different names:
• March 1942: Richard John Baker, Certificate of Birth
• September 1969: Jack Baker, name adopted to lead activists demanding gay equality
• August 1971: Pat Lyn McConnell, married name via Decree of Adoption law student, applied for a marriage license.May: in Minneapolis, within the Fourth Judicial District, which includes all of Hennepin County. Gerald R. Nelson, Clerk of District Court, denied the license because both applicants were men.Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "Full Equality, a diary", (volume 2ab), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.
• May 1970: Letter addressed to Gerald R. Nelson from George M. Scot, County Attorney
• page 6: "The consequences of an interpretation of our marriage statutes which would permit males to enter into the marriage contract could be to result in an undermining and destruction of the entire legal concept of our family structure in all areas of law."
• Baker sued Nelson, insisting that the license was not forbidden."Minnesota Statutes Annotated", West Publishing Co.
• Chapter 517.01: Marriage a civil contract. "Marriage, so far as its validity in law is concerned, is a civil contract, to which the consent of the parties, capable in law of contracting, is essential."
• Chapter 517.03: Marriages prohibited. [The list does not include parties of the same gender.]
• Courts were not persuaded.

• January 26: Look magazine devotes three pages of its cover story "The American Family" to a gay couple, Jack Baker and Michael McConnell.{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jpaauFUgLuAC&pg=PA70 | title= Out For Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America | pages=70–1 | first1= Dudley | last1= Clendinen |first2=Adam |last2=Nagourney | access-date = July 13, 2017| publisher = Touchstone | date= 1999| isbn= 9781476740713 }}
• June 4: Members of the Gay Activists Alliance demand marriage rights for same-sex couples at New York City's Marriage License Bureau.{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|title=Arthur Evans, Leader in Gay Rights Fight, Dies at 68 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/us/arthur-evans-68-leader-in-gay-rights-fight-is-dead.html|access-date=March 26, 2013 |newspaper=New York Times|date=September 14, 2011}}{{cite news|last=Franke-Ruta|first=Garance|title=The Prehistory of Gay Marriage: Watch a 1971 Protest at NYC's Marriage License Bureau|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/the-forgotten-1971-gay-activist-protest-at-new-york-citys-marriage-license-bureau/274357/|access-date=March 26, 2013 |newspaper=The Atlantic|date=March 26, 2013}}
• Jack Baker and Michael McConnell apply and are granted a marriage licence in Blue Earth County, Minnesota after discovering the county has no laws prohibiting same sex marriage. Therefore on 3, Sept, 1971 both men became the first legally married same sex couple in US and modern recorded history.
• October 15: The Minnesota Supreme Court rules in Baker v. Nelson that the state's statute limiting marriage to different-sex couples does not violate the U.S. Constitution. However this ruling did not invalidate the 1971 licence in Blue Earth County{{cite news|last=Denniston|first=Lyle|title=Gay marriage and Baker v. Nelson|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/gay-marriage-and-baker-v-nelson/|access-date=October 18, 2012|newspaper=SCOTUSblog|date=July 4, 2012}}

• The National Coalition of Gay Organizations calls for the repeal of all statutes that limit marriage to different-sex couples and for extending the legal benefits of marriage to all cohabiting couples.{{cite book|last=Eskridge Jr.|first=William N. |title=Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights|year=2002 |publisher=Routledge|page=5 |isbn=9781135313722 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfOOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA5}}
• March 21: Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, principal sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment, defends it against critics who contend it would require states to permit same-sex marriages: "All it says is that if a state legislature makes a judgment that it is wrong for a man to marry a man, then it must say that it is wrong for a woman to marry a woman".{{cite book |last1=Eisler |first1=Riane Tennenhaus|title=Equal Rights Handbook|date=1998|publisher=Excel Press|isbn=1-58348-025-0 |page=12 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2q8rHis70YC&pg=PA12|access-date=January 14, 2015}}; Phyllis Schlafly and Paul Freund contended that the ERA would invalidate laws denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite book |last1= Felsenthal |first1=Carol|title=The Sweatheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schlafly |date=1981 |publisher= Doubleday|page=238}}
• October 10: The United States Supreme Court dismisses appeal in Baker v. Nelson, a decision that refused to invalidate Minnesota's restriction of marriage to different-sex couples, "for want of a substantial federal question."{{cite news|last=Denniston|first=Lyle|title=Gay marriage and Baker v. Nelson|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/07/gay-marriage-and-baker-v-nelson/|access-date=October 7, 2012|newspaper=SCOTUSblog|date=July 4, 2012}}{{cite court |litigants=Baker v. Nelson |vol=409 U.S. |opinion=810 |date=1972 |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/21017674/Baker-v-Nelson-409-U-S-810-1972 |access-date=1 April 2012}}{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26318353|title=Baker v. Nelson, Case # 71-1027|date=10 October 1972|website=National Archives and Records Administration|access-date=16 June 2016|archive-date=15 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915203916/https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26318353|url-status=dead}}
• Until 26 June 2015, dismissal of the appeal challenging the Minnesota opinionTitle of decision, as posted by the court.
• NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court was required to accept the appeal as a matter of right, a practice that the Supreme Court Case Selections Act ended in 1988. was treated as a binding precedent. Thus, lower federal courts could not offer a contrary conclusion when presented with the precise issue "necessarily decided" by the Court.See, e.g. [http://openjurist.org/432/us/173 Mandel v. Bradley], 432 U.S. 173, 176 (1977)
• "[D]ismissals for want of a substantial federal question without doubt reject the specific challenges presented in the statement of jurisdiction.... They do prevent lower federal courts from coming to opposite conclusions on the precise issues presented and necessarily decided by those actions.";
• see generally Note, {{cite journal |title=The Precedential Effect of Summary Affirmances and Dismissals for Want of a Substantial Federal Question by the Supreme Court after Hicks v. Miranda and Mandel v. Bradley |journal=Virginia Law Review |volume=64 |issue=1 |year=1978 |pages=117–143 |jstor=1072545 |last1=t. l. p |first1=Jr |doi=10.2307/1072545 }}
• Because Hennepin County had argued that the marriage license issued previously in Blue Earth County rendered this case Moot,Sources: Michael McConnell Files, "America’s First Gay Marriage" (binder #3), Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, U of M Libraries.
• October Term, 1972: "Appellee's Motion to Dismiss Appeal and Brief" by George M. Scott, County Attorney
• page 7: "Questions Raised by This Appeal Are Moot". the "precise issue" necessarily decided by the Court may not have been the inherent right of gay citizens to marry the adult of one's choice.

• January: The Yale Law Journal publishes an unsigned article, "The Legality of Homosexual Marriage", which argues that "[a] credible case can be made that the denial of marriage licenses to all homosexual couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment" and that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment would make such a claim irrefutable.{{cite journal|title=The Legality of Homosexual Marriage|journal=Yale Law Journal|date=January 1973|volume=82|issue=3 |pages=573–589|jstor=795310|doi=10.2307/795310}}
• July 1: Maryland bans same-sex marriage, the first state to enact such a statute.{{cite web |url=http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/history-and-timeline-of-marriage |title=History and Timeline of the Freedom to Marry in the United States |publisher=Freedom to Marry |access-date=February 4, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912035547/http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pages/history-and-timeline-of-marriage |archive-date=September 12, 2013 }} Some sources date this statute to January 1, 1973, but the 2006 court decision in Conaway and Deane refers to votes recorded in "1973 Senate Journal at 273 and 1973 House Journal at 274", citing legislative activity during 1973. [http://mdcourts.gov/coappeals/highlightedcases/deane/appellantsbrief.pdf p. 27 note 15], accessed March 27, 2013. One source in the records of the Maryland General Assembly sets the effective date as July 1, 1973. See Archives of Maryland Online: [http://aomol.net/000001/000709/pdf/am709--574.pdf Session Laws, 1973; Volume 709, Page 574]
• November 9: The Kentucky Court of Appeals rules in Jones v. Hallahan that two women were properly denied a marriage license based on dictionary definitions of marriage, despite the fact that state statutes do not restrict marriage to a female-male couple.{{cite book|last=Cantor|first=Donald J.|title=Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America|year=2006|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|location=Middletown, CT |pages=117–8 |isbn=9780819568120|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lydHmmrHB8QC&pg=PA117|display-authors=etal}}; Kentucky Court of Appeals: [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15833400561917503834&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr Jones v. Hallahan, November 9, 1973]

• May 2: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) airs an installment of its one-hour debate series The Advocates that considers the question "Should Marriage Between Homosexuals Be Permitted?". Participants include Frank Kameny, Elaine Noble, and Charles Socarides.{{cite web|title=Preservation Master, May 2, 1974|url=http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/f4ae6e-should-marriage-between-homosexuals-be-permitted|website=Open Vault|publisher=WGBH (Boston)|access-date=January 15, 2015}}
• May 20: The Washington Court of Appeals holds in Singer v. Hara that the state's statute banning same-sex marriage does not violate the state constitution and raises no federal issues.{{cite book|last=Cantor|first=Donald |title=Same-Sex Marriage: The Legal and Psychological Evolution in America|year=2006|publisher=Wesleyan University Press |location=Middletown, CT|page=118|isbn=9780819568120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lydHmmrHB8QC&pg=PA118|display-authors=etal}}Washington Court of Appeals: [https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5576229373244357890&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr Singer v. Hara, May 20, 1974]

• March 26 – April 22: In Colorado, the Boulder County Clerk, Clela Rorex, issues marriage licenses to 6 same-sex couples after receiving a favorable opinion from an assistant district attorney.{{cite news |last=Lichtenstein |first=Grace |title=Homosexual Weddings Stir Controversy in Colorado|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/04/27/357643542.pdf |access-date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 27, 1975}}{{cite news|last1=Harris|first1=Kyle|title=Clela Rorex Planted the Flag for Same-Sex Marriage in Boulder Forty Years Ago|url=http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/08/clela_rorex_same_sex_marriage_boulder.php|access-date=August 22, 2014|work=Westword Newsletters|date=August 13, 2014|archive-date=August 14, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814025416/http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/08/clela_rorex_same_sex_marriage_boulder.php|url-status=dead}} When one of those married in Boulder tried to use it to sponsor his husband for immigration purposes, he lost his case, Adams v. Howerton, years later in federal court.Leagle, Inc.: [http://174.123.24.242/leagle/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19801605486FSupp1119_11441.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 Adams v. Howerton, 486 F. Supp. 1119 (C.D.Cal.1980)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321194316/http://174.123.24.242/leagle/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=19801605486FSupp1119_11441.xml&docbase=CSLWAR1-1950-1985 |date=March 21, 2012 }}. Accessed July 30, 2011
• Virginia enacts a statute that says "A marriage between persons of the same sex is prohibited."{{cite web|title=§ 20-45.2. Marriage between persons of same sex. |url=http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?000+cod+20-45.2 |work=Code of Virginia Searchable Database|publisher=Virginia General Assembly|access-date=February 16, 2013}} In 1977 it was amended to prohibit the recognition of same-sex marriages established in other jurisdictions.

• June 8: Governor Reubin Askew signs legislation banning same-sex marriage in Florida.{{cite news|title=Askew signs bill to ban gay marriage|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bg9UAAAAIBAJ&pg=5440,6335076&dq=florida+marriage+ban&hl=en|access-date=February 15, 2013|newspaper=Boca Raton News|date=June 9, 1977}}
• August 18: Governor Jerry Brown signs legislation banning same-sex marriage in California.{{cite news|title=Homosexual Marriage Ban Signed|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xHMjAAAAIBAJ&pg=6572,1175314&dq=homosexual-marriage+ban&hl=en|access-date=February 15, 2013|newspaper=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=August 19, 1977}}
• Wyoming bans same-sex marriage by statute.{{cite book|last=Koppelman|first=Andrew|title=Same Sex, Different States: When Same-sex Marriages Cross State Lines|year=2006|publisher=Sheridan Books|location=Ann Arbor, Michigan|page=138|isbn=0300135130|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA171Yp4T5QC&pg=PA138}}

• March: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opposes to the Equal Rights Amendment in part because its passage "could extend legal protection to same-sex lesbian and homosexual marriages", citing the arguments made by Paul A. Freund of Harvard Law School before the Senate Judiciary Committee.{{cite news|title=The Church and the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: A Moral Issue|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1980/03/the-church-and-the-proposed-equal-rights-amendment-a-moral-issue?lang=eng |access-date=January 25, 2014|newspaper=Ensign|date=March 1980|quote=Passage of the ERA would carry with it the risk of extending constitutional protection to immoral same-sex—lesbian and homosexual—marriages.... While it cannot be stated with certainty whether this or any other consequence will result from the vague language of the amendment, the possibility cannot be avoided.}}

• February 25: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding Adams v. Howerton, holds that for immigration purposes Congress intended its use of the words marriage and spouse to have their "ordinary meaning" which "contemplates a relationship between a man and a woman".{{cite web| url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1462461686855181202&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr |title=Adams v. Howerton|publisher=Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals |date=February 25, 1982 |access-date= March 26, 2015|website=Google Scholar}}
• May: San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes Harry Britt's measure to extend health insurance coverage to same-sex domestic partners of public employees, largely because of the reaction to the early days of AIDS, but does not provide for a registry available to the general public. Mayor Dianne Feinstein vetoes the measure.Bishop, Katherine. "[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=950DEFD9163DF932A05756C0A96F948260 San Francisco Grants Recognition to Couples Who Aren't Married]," New York Times 31 May 1989.

• May 11: A three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania rules in De Santo v. Barnsley that a same-sex couple cannot contract a common law marriage: "the limits of common law marriage must be defined in light of the limits of statutory marriage."[https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12528764226087213713&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr De Santo v. Barnsley, May 11, 1984], retrieved January 19, 2013
• The Unitarian Universalist Association endorses "services of union" for same-sex couples.{{cite web | publisher= Unitarian Universalist Association | access-date= June 7, 2016 | url= http://www.uua.org/lgbtq/history/185789.shtml | title= Unitarian Universalist LGBTQ History & Facts | archive-date= March 4, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045600/http://www.uua.org/lgbtq/history/185789.shtml | url-status= dead }}
• 4 December: The Berkeley City Council passes a domestic partnership policy to offer insurance benefits to city employees in same-sex relationships, which made Berkeley the first city in the U.S. to do so. Among the people who fought for the approval of the policy was Tom Brougham, a Berkeley city employee who coined the term "domestic partner" and created the concept in a letter sent to the Berkeley City Council a few years earlier.{{cite web |publisher= East Bay Times |access-date= 2022-04-09 |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/06/28/berkeley-activists-set-milestone-for-domestic-partnerships-in-1984/ |title= Berkeley, activists set milestone for domestic partnerships in 1984 |author= Scherr, Judith |date=2013-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409192136/https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2013/06/28/berkeley-activists-set-milestone-for-domestic-partnerships-in-1984/ |archive-date=9 April 2022 |url-status=dead}}

• 25 March: Newly incorporated city of West Hollywood becomes the first US city to enact a domestic partnership registry open to all its citizens.{{cite web |work= The New York Times |access-date= 2022-04-09 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/19/us/the-talk-of-west-hollywood-west-hollywood-acting-on-pledges.html |title=The talk of West Hollywood; West Hollywood acting on pledges |author= Lindsey, Robert |date=1985-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524170749/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/19/us/the-talk-of-west-hollywood-west-hollywood-acting-on-pledges.html |archive-date=24 May 2015 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |publisher= The Daily Beast |access-date= 2022-04-09 |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-worlds-first-official-same-sex-partners-reveal-all-about-making-history-8?ref=scroll |title=Meet The People Who Made History as The World's First Official Same-Sex Partners |author= Lang, Nico |date=2020-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409194022/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-worlds-first-official-same-sex-partners-reveal-all-about-making-history-8?ref=scroll |archive-date=9 April 2022 |url-status=dead}}

• New Hampshire bans same-sex marriage by statute.{{cite news|last=Early|first=Brian|title=Gay civil union debate flares in New Hampshire|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gays-newhampshire-idUSN0540726020070405|access-date=February 17, 2013|newspaper=Reuters|date=April 5, 2007}}

• 30 May: San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes a domestic partnership registry ordinance,{{cite web |title=San Francisco Grants Recognition To Couples Who Aren't Married |author= Bishop, Katherine |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/31/us/san-francisco-grants-recognition-to-couples-who-aren-t-married.html?sec=health |access-date=2022-04-09 |work= The New York Times |date=1989-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819081517/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/31/us/san-francisco-grants-recognition-to-couples-who-aren-t-married.html?sec=health |archive-date=19 August 2018 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=San Francisco Set to Define 'Family' |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1989/october-20/public-policy-san-francisco-set-to-define-family.html |access-date=2022-04-09 |publisher= Christianity Today |date=1989-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020052855/https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1989/october-20/public-policy-san-francisco-set-to-define-family.html |archive-date=20 October 2020 |url-status=dead}} which is closely defeated by San Francisco voters as Proposition S on 7 November.{{cite web |title=1989 local elections and the defeat of Propositions S and P - 10 November 1989 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Z1SHvyRfnrP29fzwLtbhd2/1989-local-elections-and-the-defeat-of-propositions-s-and-p-10-november-1989 |access-date=2022-04-09 |publisher= BBC |date=1989-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202214948/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2Z1SHvyRfnrP29fzwLtbhd2/1989-local-elections-and-the-defeat-of-propositions-s-and-p-10-november-1989 |archive-date=2 December 2021 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |title=Campaign Trail; 2 Candidates Who Beat Death Itself |author= Reinhold, Robert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/30/us/campaign-trail-2-candidates-who-beat-death-itself.html |access-date=2022-04-09 |work= The New York Times |date=1990-10-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108224917/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/30/us/campaign-trail-2-candidates-who-beat-death-itself.html |archive-date=8 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}
• Andrew Sullivan's essay "Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage" appears in the New Republic.{{cite news|last=Sullivan|first=Andrew|title=Here Comes the Groom|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/gay_marriage_votes_and_andrew_sullivan_his_landmark_1989_essay_making_a.single.html |access-date=January 19, 2013|newspaper=Slate |date=November 9, 2012}}

• California Assemblyman John L. Burton, D-San Francisco, proposed Assembly Bill 167 that would have changed the state civil marriage code to permit same-sex marriages.{{cite web|last1=Tremblay|first1=J.P.|title=Homosexual anti-bias, marriage bills sure to cause a stir|url=http://www.unmarriedamerica.org/Archives/1972-2005-TFC-News-Stories/1991-Sacramento-Job-and-Marriage-Bills.pdf|website=Unmarried America.org|publisher=The Sacramento Union|access-date=26 June 2015}}
• June: Berkeley becomes the third city in California to create a domestic partnership registry for same- and opposite-sex couples.
• October: Fox Broadcasting Company airs the first same-sex wedding on national television in the episode "Can't Help Loving That Man" of its sitcom Roc.{{cite news|last=Kearnan|first=Scott|title=Throwback Thursday: Before DOMA, who threw TV's first gay wedding?|url=https://www.boston.com/ae/blogs/mediaremix/2013/06/throwback_thursday_before_doma.html|access-date=January 24, 2014|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=June 27, 2013}}

• May 5: The Supreme Court of Hawaii sends the case of Baehr v. Miike to a trial court after ruling that the state same-sex marriage ban was presumed to be unconstitutional and that the State would need to demonstrate a compelling interest in denying same-sex couples the right to marry.N.R. Gallo, Introduction to Family Law (Thomson Delmar Learning, 2004), 145, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sd-UeVfYS0sC&pg=PA145 available online], accessed October 7, 2012{{cite web |author= Blair, Chad |title= How Hawaii Helped Lead The Fight For Marriage Equality |url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/05/chad-blair-how-hawaii-helped-lead-the-fight-for-marriage-equality/ |access-date=2022-04-09 |publisher= Honolulu Civil Beat |date=2021-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210524135250/https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/05/chad-blair-how-hawaii-helped-lead-the-fight-for-marriage-equality/ |archive-date=24 May 2021 |url-status=dead}}
• The Conference of Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America write in a pastoral letter that they find no scriptural basis for blessing same-sex unions.{{cite book|editor-last=Siker|editor-first=Jeffrey|title=Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Press|page=117|isbn=9780313014314|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nYCeP_w8YC&pg=PA117}}
• December: In A Place at the Table, Bruce Bawer argues for the legal and religious recognition of same-sex relationships as marriages, arguing for what he calls the "silent majority" of non-radicals like himself and criticizing the gay community's identification of homosexuality with sexual behavior.{{cite news|last1=Steinfels|first1=Margaret O'Brien|title=Gay and Conservative|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/12/books/gay-and-conservative.html|access-date=February 3, 2015|work=New York Times|date=February 3, 2015}}

• September: Governor Pete Wilson from California vetoes a bill that would have legalized domestic partnerships in the state.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/us/veto-on-domestic-partners.html |title=Veto on Domestic Partners |work=The New York Times |access-date=2022-04-09 |date=1994-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220410025214/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/12/us/veto-on-domestic-partners.html |archive-date=10 April 2022 |url-status=dead}}

• January 19: The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruling in Dean v. District of Columbia upholds the denial of a marriage license to two men.[http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/library/documents/DeanvDC.pdf Dean v. District of Columbia, January 19, 1995], retrieved January 19, 2013

• 21 September: As a direct result of the Baehr v. Lewin ruling of 1993, President Bill Clinton signs the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) into law, which banned the federal Government from recognizing same-sex unions.MetroWeekly: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111001211331/http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=6613 Chris Geidner, "Becoming Law," 29 September 2011], accessed 3 March 2012{{cite news|last=Winerip|first=Michael|title=Gay Support for Clinton Holds in Middle America|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/us/gay-support-for-clinton-holds-in-middle-america.html|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 22, 2012}}
• December 3: A Hawaii trial court holds that no compelling interests support Hawaii's statute limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples. The decision is stayed pending review by the Supreme Court of Hawaii.{{cite web |url=http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court/downloads/baehr_hi_19961203_decision-hi-circuit-court.pdf |title=Trial-court decision in Baehr v. Miike |date=December 3, 1996 |publisher=First Circuit Court, State of Hawaii |access-date=June 6, 2009 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720173024/http://data.lambdalegal.org/in-court/downloads/baehr_hi_19961203_decision-hi-circuit-court.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/specials/samesex.html |title=Coverage of Hawaii same-sex marriage cases |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |access-date=June 6, 2009}}
• The Unitarian Universalist Association adopts a resolution calling for full marriage equality for same-sex couples
• At its General Convention, the United Methodist Church, which in 1972 said that "the practice of homosexuality [is] incompatible with Christian teaching", votes 553 to 321 to adopt a rule that "Ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be conducted in our churches."{{cite book|editor-last=Siker|editor-first=Jeffrey|title=Homosexuality and Religion: An Encyclopedia|year=2007|publisher=Greenwood Press|page=220|isbn=9780313014314|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N6nYCeP_w8YC&pg=PA220}}

• June 3: Minnesota bans same-sex marriage by statute and prohibits the recognition of same-sex marriages legalized elsewhere.{{cite web|title=1997 Regular Session Chapter 517.03 Prohibited Marriages Relations|publisher=Minnesota Legislature – Office of the Revisor of Statutes|year=1997 |work=Minnesota Session Laws |url=https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/laws/?id=203&doctype=Chapter&year=1997&type=0#a10 |access-date=March 28, 2013}} Effective the day following final enactment. Signed by the governor June 2, 1997.
• November 2: The Union of American Hebrew Congregations calls for legislation to allow gays and lesbians access to civil marriage and supports efforts to consider a religious ceremony to celebrate such marriages.{{cite news|title=Civil Marriage for Gay and Lesbian Jewish Couples|url=http://www.bjpa.org/Publications/details.cfm?PublicationID=7794 |date=November 2, 1997 |access-date=January 25, 2014|newspaper=Berman Jewish Policy Archive (NYU)}}
• As a direct result of the Baehr v. Lewin ruling of 1993, Hawaii passes a law to establish Reciprocal beneficiary relationships, which made Hawaii the first state in the country to offer statewide recognition for same-sex couples.{{cite web |author=Essoyan, Susan |title=Hawaii Approves Benefits Package for Gay Couples |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-30-mn-53927-story.html |access-date=2022-04-09 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1997-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210329075309/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-04-30-mn-53927-story.html |archive-date=29 March 2021 |url-status=dead}}

• February 27: In Brause v. Bureau of Vital Statistics, an Alaska court orders the state to show it has a compelling reason for prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Miriam|title=Political Institutions and Lesbian and Gay Rights in the United States and Canada|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|location=NY|pages=118–9|isbn=9780203895016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0g5coTAgLgC&pg=PA118}}
• November 3: Hawaii voters pass a constitutional amendment to give the Hawaii State Legislature the power to reserve marriage to different-sex couples.{{Cite web|publisher=Hawaii Office of Elections|title=General Election 1998|url=http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/1998/general/98swgen.htm|date=November 3, 1998|access-date=July 6, 2010}}
• November 3: Voters in Alaska approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite web|url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar9.htm |title=Same-sex marriage in Alaska |publisher=Religioustolerance.org |access-date=January 28, 2011}}

• 22 September: Governor Gray Davis from California signs a domestic partnerships bill into law that provided limited rights for same-sex couples,[http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_26&sess=9900&house=B&author=migden AB 26.] Legislative Counsel of California. 1999–2000 Session. which made California the first state in the country to have a statewide domestic partnership scheme and the second to provide a registry for same-sex couples after Hawaii.
• December 9: The Supreme Court of Hawaii in Baehr v. Miike upholds the state's ban on same-sex marriage.{{Cite court|litigants=Baehr v. Miike|opinion=No. 20371|court=Supreme Court of Hawaii|date=December 9, 1999}}
• December 20: The Vermont Supreme Court holds in Baker v. Vermont that excluding same-sex couples from marriage violates the Vermont Constitution and orders the legislature to establish same-sex marriage or an equivalent status.{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Carey|title=Vermont High Court Backs Rights of Same-Sex Couples|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/21/us/vermont-high-court-backs-rights-of-same-sex-couples.html|access-date=September 22, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 21, 1999}}

• March 7: California voters approve Proposition 22, adding the statement "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California" to the state's statutes.{{cite book|last=Klarman |first=Michael J.|title=From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage |year=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press|location=NY|page=84|isbn=9780199977215|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MklSQyyq03AC&pg=PA84}}
• 26 April: Governor Howard Dean from Vermont signs a civil unions bill in response to the ruling of Baker v. Vermont, thus making Vermont the first state in the U.S. to give civil union rights to same-sex couples. It became law on 1 July.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/us/national-news-briefs-governor-of-vermont-signs-gay-union-law.html |title=National News Briefs; Governor of Vermont Signs Gay-Union Law |date=2000-04-27 |work= The New York Times |access-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220050820/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/27/us/national-news-briefs-governor-of-vermont-signs-gay-union-law.html |archive-date=20 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar8d.htm |title=House Committee activity |publisher=Religioustolerance.org |access-date=26 July 2012}}{{cite news|last=Goldberg|first=Carey |title=Vermont Gives Final Approval to Same-Sex Unions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/26/us/vermont-gives-final-approval-to-same-sex-unions.html|access-date=July 23, 2013 |newspaper=New York Times|date=April 26, 2000}}
• November 7: Voters in Nebraska approve a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news|last=North|first=John|title=South Carolina, South Dakota vote for lotteries|url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/07/ballot.wrap/|access-date=October 7, 2012|newspaper=CNN|date=November 8, 2000}}

• May 15: Rep. Ronnie Shows (D-MS) introduces the Federal Marriage Amendment, a law to amend the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman and to prevent the extension of the rights of marriage to unmarried persons.{{cite news|title=Marriage Amendment Preserves Male-Female Union|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52891,00.html |access-date=October 7, 2012|newspaper=Fox News|date=May 16, 2002}}
• November 5: Voters in Nevada approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news|last=Bosshart |first=Becky |url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/apr/10/despite-rulings-elsewhere-nevada-unlikely-change-b/ |title=Experts: No change in sight for state's gay marriage ban - Friday, April 10, 2009 |newspaper=Las Vegas Sun |access-date=December 20, 2011}}

• 18 November: The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts rules in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that same-sex couples have the right to marry, setting the start date for the ruling to come into effect on 17 May 2004, to allow the legislature six months to modify state law if it chooses to.{{cite news|last=Belluck| first=Pam| title=Marriage by Gays Gains Big Victory in Massachusetts|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/us/same-sex-marriage-overview-marriage-gays-gains-big-victory-massachusetts.html|access-date=12 July 2017|newspaper=New York Times|date=19 November 2003}}

• 12 January: The Legislature of New Jersey passes a registered partnerships bill. It came into effect on 10 July.
• February 4: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, responding to a query from the state Senate, issues an opinion that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry and that a designation like civil union constitutes discrimination.{{cite news|last=Neilan|first=Terence|title=Gays Have Full Marriage Rights, Massachusetts Court Says|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/national/04CND-MASS.html|access-date=December 11, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 4, 2004}}
• February 12 – March 11: San Francisco issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• February 20: A clerk in Sandoval County, New Mexico, issues licenses to same-sex couples until state Attorney General Patricia Madrid issues an opinion stating that the licenses are "invalid under state law".{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Gay-unions-in-New-Mexico-But-state-forces-2820938.php |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |title=Gay unions in New Mexico, but state forces county clerk to stop |first=Rona |last=Marech |date=February 21, 2004|access-date=July 21, 2013}}
• February 25: President George W. Bush calls for a constitutional amendment "defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and woman as husband and wife."{{cite news|title=Bush's Remarks on Marriage Amendment|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/25/us/same-sex-marriage-bush-s-remarks-on-marriage-amendment.html|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 25, 2004}}
• February 27: Several same-sex couples are wed in New Paltz, New York. The marriages are later invalidated.{{cite web |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/columns/statepolitic/n_10018/ |title=The Marrying Kind |access-date=September 25, 2012 |last=Kolker |first=Robert |work=New York Magazine |date=March 8, 2004 }}
• March 5–9: A clerk in Asbury Park, New Jersey, processes several marriage licenses for same-sex couples until warned by the state attorney general to stop. A deputy mayor officiates at the marriage of one couple on March 8.{{cite news |last=Crampton|first=Thomas|title=Issuing Licenses, Quietly, To Couples in Asbury Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/nyregion/issuing-licenses-quietly-to-couples-in-asbury-park.html|access-date=July 21, 2013|newspaper=New York Times |date=March 10, 2004}}{{cite news |last=Crampton|first=Thomas|title=Asbury Park Halts Gay-Marriage Applications, Sending Issue to Courts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/11/nyregion/asbury-park-halts-gay-marriage-applications-sending-issue-to-courts.html |access-date=July 21, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=March 11, 2013}}
• March 3: Multnomah County, Oregon, issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|title=Oregon county issues same-sex marriage licenses|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/03/same.sex.marriage/index.html?_s=PM:US|access-date=November 1, 2012|newspaper=CNN|date=March 3, 2004|archive-date=May 8, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508165554/http://articles.cnn.com/2004-03-03/us/same.sex.marriage_1_marriage-licenses-multnomah-county-board-diane-linn?_s=PM:US|url-status=live}}
• April: The U.S. state of Maine adopts a registered partnerships bill. The law came into effect on 30 July.Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 22, sec. 2710
• April 20: An Oregon state judge orders Multnomah County to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, declares the 3,000 issued since March 3 valid, and orders the state legislature to create an equivalent of marriage for same-sex couples.{{cite news|last=McCall|first=William|title=Judge orders stop to gay marriage in Multnomah County|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20040420/webgaymarriage20/judge-orders-stop-to-gay-marriage-in-multnomah-county|access-date=November 1, 2012|newspaper=Seattle Times|date=April 20, 2004}}
• May 17: Same-sex marriage starts in Massachusetts.{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/news/specials/gay_marriage/articles/2004/05/17/cambridge_plays_host_to_a_giant_celebration/|title=Cambridge plays host to a giant celebration|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 17, 2004 | first1=Joanna | last1=Weiss | first2=Lisa | last2=Kocian |access-date=October 24, 2012}}
• August 3: Voters in Missouri approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38861-2004Aug4.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | first=Alan | last=Cooperman | title=Gay Marriage Ban in Mo. May Resonate Nationwide | date=August 5, 2004}}
• August 4: A King County Superior Court judge finds for the plaintiffs in a challenge to the state's Defense of Marriage Act in Andersen v. King County, becoming the first trial judge in the country to rule a state DOMA unconstitutional;{{cite news |last1=Turnbull |first1=Lornet |title=Gay-marriage fight heats up after ruling |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20040808/gaymarriage08m/gay-marriage-fight-heats-up-after-ruling |access-date=30 December 2024 |publisher=The Seattle Times |date=8 August 2004}} the [https://www.courts.wa.gov/newsinfo/content/pdf/AndersenVSims.pdf ruling] is stayed pending appeal.
• August 12: The California Supreme Court rules that the same-sex marriages performed in San Francisco in February and March are void.{{cite news | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/gay-marriage-2004.html | title=California Court Nullifies Same-Sex Marriages | publisher=PBS NewsHour | date=August 12, 2004 | access-date=October 24, 2012 | archive-date=February 20, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220192732/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/gay-marriage-2004.html | url-status=dead }}
• September 18: Voters in Louisiana approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite web |url=http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=19142 |title=Baptist Press - 78-22%: Louisiana passes const. marriage amendment - News with a Christian Perspective |publisher=Bpnews.net |date=September 20, 2004 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |archive-date=February 16, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060216073110/http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=19142 |url-status=dead }}
• November 2: Voters in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Utah approve state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news|first=Joel |last=Roberts |agency=Associated Press|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/11-states-ban-same-sex-marriage/ |title=11 States Ban Same-Sex Marriage |publisher=CBS News |date=November 2, 2004 |access-date=January 28, 2011}}

• January 20: An Indiana appeals court upholds the constitutionality of the state's statute defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.{{cite news|title=Court rejects challenge to Indiana's gay marriage ban |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2005/01/21/court-rejects-challenge-indianas-gay-marriage-ban-14866|access-date=August 9, 2013|newspaper=The Advocate|date=January 21, 2005}} The plaintiffs do not appeal to the state supreme court.{{cite news|title=Couples won't seek appeal in Indiana gay marriage case|url=http://www.advocate.com/news/2005/02/19/couples-wont-seek-appeal-indiana-gay-marriage-case-15199|access-date=August 9, 2013|newspaper=The Advocate|date=February 19, 2005}}
• April 5: Kansas voters approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news| url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/kansas-voters-approve-gay-nups-ban |publisher=Fox News |title=Kansas Voters Approve Gay Nups Ban |date=April 6, 2005}}
• April 14: Oregon's highest court rules in Li & Kennedy v. State of Oregon that the 3,000 same-sex marriages performed in the state in March and April 2004 were never valid.{{cite news|last=Kershaw|first=Sarah|title=Oregon Supreme Court Invalidates Same-Sex Marriages|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/national/15gays.html|access-date=November 1, 2012 |newspaper=New York Times|date=April 15, 2005}}
• April 20: Governor Jodi Rell from the U.S. State of Connecticut signs a same-sex civil unions bill into law after passing the State Senate 26 to 8 earlier that day. The bill was previously approved on 13 April by the State House of Representatives in an 85–63 vote. It came into effect on 1 October.
• May 12: U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon rules in Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning that a constitutional amendment to the Nebraska Constitution that denies recognition of same-sex couples under any designation violates the U.S. Constitution.{{cite news|title=Judge Voids Same-Sex Marriage Ban in Nebraska|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/national/13nebraska.html|access-date=November 25, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 13, 2005}} (His decision is overruled in 2006 by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.){{cite news |last1=Belluck|first1=Pam|last2=Ruethling|first2=Gretchen|title=2 Court Rulings Deal Blow To Same-Sex Marriage |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E7DC1F30F936A25754C0A9609C8B63|access-date=November 25, 2012 |newspaper=New York Times|date=July 15, 2006}}
• July 4: At the 25th General Synod of the United Church of Christ in Atlanta, Georgia, delegates voted to adopt the resolution, "Equal Marriage Rights for All," affirming homosexuality as compatible with Christian living and allowing for same-sex marriage ceremonies to be performed in UCC congregations. The United Church of Christ became the first major Mainline Christian body and major Christian denomination in the United States to do so.{{cite news|title=Marriage Equality and the UCC |url=http://www.ucc.org/lgbt_issues_marriage-equality_index}}
• September 29: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes legislation establishing same-sex marriage.{{cite news|title=Schwarzenegger vetoes gay marriage bill|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/states/2005-09-29-schwarzenegger-veto-gay-bill_x.htm|access-date=September 25, 2012|newspaper=USA Today|date=September 29, 2005}}
• November 8: Voters in Texas approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite web |url=http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=779&Itemid=118 |title=Texas marriage amendment passes but debate continues over impact |publisher=Associated Baptist Press |date=November 8, 2005 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113031739/http://www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=779&Itemid=118 |archive-date=January 13, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}

• June 6: Voters in Alabama approve a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite web |url=http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=23414 |title=Baptist Press - Ala. becomes 20th state to pass marriage amendment - News with a Christian Perspective |publisher=Bpnews.net |date=June 7, 2006 |access-date=January 28, 2011 |archive-date=August 30, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830160707/http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=23414 |url-status=dead }}
• July 6: The New York Court of Appeals issues its decision in Hernández v. Robles, stating that same-sex partners do not have the right to marry under the New York Constitution.{{cite web|url =http://courts.state.ny.us/Reporter/3dseries/2006/2006_05239.htm|title = Hernandez v. Robles. 2006 NY Slip Op 05239 [7 NY3d 338].|access-date =July 19, 2012}}
• July 14: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning reverses a lower court's 2005 decision and rules that a Nebraska constitutional amendment that bans all recognition of same-sex relationships is not unconstitutional.{{cite news|last=Mabin|first=Clarence|title=Appeals court reinstates same-sex marriage ban|url=http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_8e7e6457-0849-5d92-b6e7-8c7bab489ccd.html|access-date=September 25, 2012|newspaper=Journal Star|date=July 13, 2006}}
• October 25: The New Jersey Supreme Court holds unanimously in Lewis v. Harris that excluding same-sex couples from marriage violates the state constitution's guarantee of equal protection. A majority of four justices gives the state legislature six months to amend the state's marriage laws or create civil unions.{{cite news|last=Chen|first=David W.|title=New Jersey Court Backs Rights for Same-Sex Unions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/nyregion/26marriagecnd.html|access-date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 25, 2006}}
• November 7: Arizona voters reject an initiative banning the recognition of same-sex marriages and civil unions.{{cite news|last=Geis|first=Sonya|title=New Tactic In Fighting Marriage Initiatives|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/19/AR2006111901168.html|access-date=October 28, 2012|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 20, 2006}}
• November 7: Voters in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wisconsin approve state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news| url=http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/ballot.measures/ | work=CNN | title=CNN.com - Elections 2006}}{{cite web |url=http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/a/Election2006.htm |title=Mid-Term Election Results for Gays 2006 - Gay Election Results 2006 - Gay Ballot Measures |publisher=Lesbianlife.about.com |date=December 7, 2011 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |archive-date=February 3, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203150930/http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/a/Election2006.htm |url-status=dead }}
• 21 December: Governor Jon Corzine from New Jersey signs a bill legalizing civil unions into law.{{cite web |url=http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3787_I1.PDF |title=New Jersey Public Law 2006, c.103 |access-date=31 July 2007 |year=2006 |publisher=New Jersey Legislature |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125124923/http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/A4000/3787_I1.PDF |url-status=dead }} It took effect on 19 February 2007.

• April 21: Governor Chris Gregoire from Washington signs a domestic partnerships bill into law.{{cite web

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• May 9: Governor Ted Kulongoski from Oregon signs a domestic partnerships bill into law. It came into effect on 1 February 2008.
• May 31: Governor John Lynch from New Hampshire signs a civil unions bill into law. It came into effect on 1 January 2008.
• August 30: A court of Iowa strikes down its ban on same-sex marriage as a result of a legal challenge. About 20 couples obtained marriage licenses and one couple married before the judge issued a stay of his ruling pending appeal.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gaymarriage_websep01,1,4408589.story |title=First Iowa gay marriage shows 'love and justice' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907204548/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-gaymarriage_websep01,1,4408589.story |archive-date=7 September 2008 | work=Chicago Tribune}}, Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 31 August 2007
• September 18: Maryland's highest court decides Conaway v. Deane, rejecting a challenge to the state's prohibition on same-sex marriage.{{cite web|title=Maryland High Court Denies Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples, September 18, 2007|url=http://www.hrc.org/press-releases/entry/maryland-high-court-denies-marriage-equality-for-same-sex-couples|publisher=Human Rights Campaign|access-date=October 29, 2012}}
• October 12: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes same-sex marriage legislation for the second time.{{cite news|last=Tucker|first=Jill|title=Schwarzenegger vetoes same-sex marriage bill again|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Schwarzenegger-vetoes-same-sex-marriage-bill-again-2497886.php|access-date=September 25, 2012|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 12, 2007}}

• May 14: New York Governor David Paterson orders state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.{{cite news|last=Peters|first=Jeremy W.|title=New York to Back Same-Sex Unions From Elsewhere|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/nyregion/29marriage.html|access-date=July 7, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 29, 2008}}
• May 15: The Supreme Court of California decides In re Marriage Cases and overturns the state's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Egelko|first=Bob|title=State's top court strikes down marriage ban|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/State-s-top-court-strikes-down-marriage-ban-3213394.php|access-date=October 30, 2012|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|date=May 16, 2008}}
• 22 May: Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland signs into law two bills legalizing domestic partnerships. They came into effect on 1 July.
• 29 May: Governor David Paterson from New York signs an executive order mandating state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed out-of-state equally under the law. New York thus became the first U.S. state that did not allow same-sex marriages,{{citation needed|date=November 2014}} but whose state agencies recognized same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.
• June 17: In California, county clerks begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|last=McKinley |first=Jesse|title=Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Wed in California|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/us/17cnd-marriage.html |access-date=July 7, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 18, 2008}}
• July 31: Massachusetts repeals its 1913 law invalidating any marriage of non-residents if the marriage is invalid in the state where they live.{{cite news|last=Levenson|first=Michael |title=Same-sex couples applaud repeal |url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/01/same_sex_couples_applaud_repeal/ |access-date=July 7, 2013 |newspaper=Boston Globe|date=August 1, 2008}}
• August 25: The Democratic National Convention adopts a platform that "oppose[s]the Defense of Marriage Act and all attempts to use this issue to divide us" and suggests support for same-sex marriage.{{cite web|title=2008 Democratic Party Platform|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=78283|work=The American Presidency Project|publisher=University of California Santa Barbara|access-date=November 27, 2012|quote=We support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections.}}
• September 1: The Republican National Convention adopts a platform that "laments that judges are ... undermining traditional marriage laws", endorses the Federal Marriage Amendment and state initiatives that support "traditional marriage", and references "the right of states not to recognize same-sex 'marriages'".{{cite web|title=2008 Republican Party Platform |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=78545 |work=American Presidency Project|publisher=University of California Santa Barbara|access-date=November 27, 2012 |quote=Unbelievably, the Democratic Party has now pledged to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which would subject every state to the redefinition of marriage by a judge without ever allowing the people to vote on the matter. We also urge Congress to use its Article III, Section 2 power to prevent activist federal judges from imposing upon the rest of the nation the judicial activism in Massachusetts and California.}}
• October 10: The Supreme Court of Connecticut, in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, rules that the state's prohibition of same-sex marriage violates the state constitution.{{cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|title=Gay Marriage Is Ruled Legal in Connecticut|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/nyregion/11marriage.html|access-date=September 25, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 10, 2008}}
• November 4: Voters in Arizona, California, and Florida approve state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27523989 |title=States issue verdicts on gay rights, abortion |publisher=NBC News |date=November 5, 2008 |access-date=December 20, 2011}}
• November 5: Proposition 8 takes effect in California, preventing the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses.
• November 12: Same-sex marriage starts in Connecticut.{{cite news|last=Foderaro|first=Lisa W.|title=Gay Marriages Begin in Connecticut|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/nyregion/13marriage.html|access-date=September 22, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 12, 2008}}

• April 3: The Iowa Supreme Court, ruling in Varnum v. Brien, holds that the state's restriction of marriage to different-sex couples violates the equal protection clause of the Iowa Constitution.{{cite news|last=Davey|first=Monica|title=Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04iowa.html|access-date=October 21, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 3, 2009}} All three of the states that had legalized same-sex marriage at this point—Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Iowa—had done so by court ruling.{{Cite news|date=2013-06-26|title=Factbox: List of states that legalized gay marriage|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-states-idUSBRE95P07A20130626|access-date=2021-10-17}}
• April 7: The Vermont General Assembly overrides Governor Jim Douglas's April 6 veto of same-sex marriage legislation, making it the first state to institute same-sex marriage by statute.{{cite news|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|title=Gay Rights Groups Celebrate Victories in Marriage Push|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/us/08vermont.html|access-date=October 22, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 7, 2009}}
• April 23: Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell signs legislation converting existing civil unions into marriages effective October 1, 2010.{{cite news|title=Vote caps decade-long Conn. gay marriage fight|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna30362523|access-date=October 29, 2012|newspaper=NBC News|date=April 23, 2009}}
• April 27: Same-sex marriage starts in Iowa.{{cite news|last=Davey|first=Monica|title=A Quiet Day in Iowa as Same-Sex Couples Line Up to Marry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28marriage.html|access-date=October 22, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 27, 2009}}
• May 6: Maine Governor John Baldacci signs the marriage equality law, the first governor in the U.S. to sign such legislation.{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/gay_marriage_la.html|title=Gay marriage law signed in Maine, advances in N.H|newspaper=Boston Globe|last=Russel |first= Jenna |date=May 6, 2009|access-date=October 3, 2012}}
• May 18: Governor Chris Gregoire from Washington signs a so-called "everything-but-marriage" registered partnerships bill into law.{{cite web |url=http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1236&newsType=1 |title=Gov. Gregoire signs legislation to expand rights to domestic partners |publisher=Governor.wa.gov |date=18 May 2009 |access-date=26 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215064133/http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1236&newsType=1 |archive-date=15 February 2012 }}{{cite web|url=http://apps.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?bill=5688&year=2009 |title=SB 5688 – 2009–10 |publisher=Apps.leg.wa.gov |access-date=26 July 2012}} It was passed by the State Senate on 10 March and by the House of Representatives on 15 April. However, opponents organized a referendum that took place on 3 November.
• May 26: The California Supreme Court, ruling in Strauss v. Horton, upholds Proposition 8's ban on same-sex marriage and holds that same-sex marriages performed before its passage remain valid.{{cite news|title=California Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXjgJBirm_0g|access-date=October 31, 2012|newspaper=Bloomberg News|date=May 26, 2009}}
• May 31: The Assembly of the U.S. state of Nevada legalizes domestic partnerships by a 28–14 vote,{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/30/senate-overrides-governors-veto-domestic-partners-/|title=Senate overrides governor's veto of domestic partners bill|first=Cy|last=Ryan|work=LasVegasSun.com|date=30 May 2009|access-date=14 October 2014}} overriding a veto from Governor Jim Gibbons after the Senate did the same on 30 May by a 14–7 vote.{{cite web |url=http://www.ktnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10453082 |title=House overrides governor's veto of domestic partners bill |work=KTNV |access-date=14 October 2014}} {{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The law came into effect on 1 October.
• June 3: New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signs legislation legalizing same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|title=New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04marriage.html|access-date=October 30, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 3, 2009}}
• June 29: Governor Jim Doyle from Wisconsin signs into law a bill legalizing registered partnerships. The bill was previously approved by the State Assembly in a 50–48 vote on 13 JuneState Assembly Votes to Approve Domestic Partnerships!, Fair Wisconsin and by the State Senate in a 17–16 vote on 17 June. The law came into effect on 3 August.
• July 1: The U.S. state of Colorado begins recognizing designated beneficiary agreements.{{cite news|url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12109357

|title=Ritter signs bill that will help gay couples – The Denver Post|work=Denver Post

|access-date=29 April 2009|date=9 April 2009}}

• July 6: The District of Columbia starts recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other U.S. states, although same-sex marriages cannot be performed in D.C. itself.
• July 17: The General Convention of the Episcopal Church approves a resolution calling for the development of a rite for blessing same-sex unions and allowing bishops where unions are legal to use their own judgment in blessing such unions until the rite becomes available.{{cite web|title=Develop Liturgies for Blessings Unions and Provide Generous Pastoral Response|url=http://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/acts/acts_resolution-complete.pl?resolution=2009-C056|work=The Acts of Convention, 1976-2009|publisher=Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date=January 25, 2014}}{{cite news|last=Goodstein|first=Laurie|title=Episcopal Bishops Give Ground on Gay Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/us/16episcopal.html|access-date=January 25, 2014|newspaper=New York Times |date=July 15, 2009}}
• August 21: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America votes by a 559-441 margin to allow non-celibate gay and lesbian pastors in committed, monogamous relationships to be ordained to pastoral office. It also allows, but not requires, for ELCA pastors to perform blessings on same-sex weddings.{{cite web|title=Same-sex unions accepted by Evangelical Lutherans|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/same-sex-unions-accepted-by-evangelical-lutherans/nQM5R/|access-date=2015-06-27|archive-date=2015-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630194931/http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/same-sex-unions-accepted-by-evangelical-lutherans/nQM5R/|url-status=dead}} It becomes the second Mainline denomination to do so.
• September 1: Vermont's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Ashworth|first=Sarah|title=Same-sex couple ties the knot at midnight|url=http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/85709/same-sex-couple-ties-knot-at-midnight/|access-date=October 29, 2012|newspaper=Vermont Public Radio|date=September 1, 2009}}
• September 15: A group of Democratic members of the House of Representatives led by Jerrold Nadler, Tammy Baldwin, and Jared Polis introduce the Respect for Marriage Act, which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.{{cite news|last=Becker|first=Bernie|title=House Dems Take Aim at Marriage Law|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/house-dems-take-aim-at-doma/|access-date=November 26, 2012|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 15, 2009}}
• October 2: A Texas judge rules the state's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional while presiding over the divorce proceedings for two gay Texans married in Massachusetts.{{cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-gaydivorce_02met.ART.State.Edition2.4bcd80d.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005140710/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-gaydivorce_02met.ART.State.Edition2.4bcd80d.html|archive-date=October 5, 2009|title=Judge calls Texas' gay-marriage ban into question|last=Appleton|first=Roy|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=October 2, 2009|access-date=May 17, 2012}}
• October 11: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signs legislation establishing the recognition of same-sex marriages performed elsewhere.{{cite web|url=http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/10/12-1|title=Governor Signs Harvey Milk Day and Marriage Recognition Bills|publisher=Common Dreams NewsCenter|first=Vaishalee|last=Raja|date=October 12, 2009|access-date=October 13, 2009}}
• November 3: A voter referendum repeals Maine's same-sex marriage law, preventing it from going into effect.Glenn Adams and David Crary, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/8789627 "Maine voters reject gay-marriage law"], November 4, 2009{{cite news|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2009/11/04/maine_voters_overturn_states_new_same_sex_marriage_law/ |title=Maine voters overturn state's new same-sex marriage law |work=The Boston Globe |date=November 4, 2009 |access-date=January 28, 2011 |first=Maria |last=Sacchetti}} While a referendum in Washington upholds the so-called "everything-but-marriage" registered partnerships bill,{{cite web |url=http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/Referendum-Measure-No-74-Concerns-marriage-for-same-sex-couples_ByCounty.html |title=Referendum Measure No. 74 Concerns marriage for same-sex couples |publisher=Vote.wa.gov |access-date=12 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110052959/http://vote.wa.gov/results/current/Referendum-Measure-No-74-Concerns-marriage-for-same-sex-couples_ByCounty.html |archive-date=10 November 2012 |url-status=dead }} which came into effect on 3 December.
• December 18: District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty signs a same-sex marriage bill into law.{{cite web | author=The Christian Press | title=D.C. Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill | date=21 December 2009 | url=http://www.christianpost.com/article/20091221/d-c-mayor-signs-gay-marriage-bill/ | access-date=22 December 2009}} The bill was previously approved by the D.C. Council on 15 December.{{cite news | author=The Washington Post | title=D.C. Council approves same-sex marriage bill | date=16 December 2009 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121500945.html?hpid=moreheadlines | access-date=22 December 2009}} It came into effect on 3 March 2010.{{cite news|last=Gresko |first=Jessica |title=Same-sex marriage becomes legal in DC |agency=Associated Press |date=3 March 2010 |url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gftV6RnfBC8iPPWGM0SGQeNLiC6QD9E71J3G0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200111201321/https://www.webcitation.org/5nx4LhJxv?url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gftV6RnfBC8iPPWGM0SGQeNLiC6QD9E71J3G0 |archive-date=11 January 2020 |url-status=dead }}
• Marlon Reis, The husband of Representative Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, acquires a Congressional spouse ID, though he is later told he should have been issued a "designee ID", the style given to unmarried partners of members of Congress.{{cite news|last=Polis |first=Jared |title=Commentary: A 'congressional spouse' breaks barriers|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/15/polis.congressional.spouse/ |access-date=January 24, 2014|newspaper=CNN|date=October 15, 2009}}

• January 1: In California, all out-of-state same-sex marriages are given the benefits of marriage, although only those performed before November 5, 2008, are granted the designation "marriage".{{cite web|url=http://www.eqca.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=5609563&content_id={913FF32C-BE83-428B-9DBE-82D429183E7E}¬oc=1 |title=Historic Bills Expanding LGBT Rights and Resources Become Law – Equality California |publisher=Eqca.org |access-date=June 27, 2010}}
• January 1: New Hampshire's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Wockner|first=Rex|title=Same-sex marriage begins in NH on Jan. 1|url=http://www.baywindows.com/same-sex-marriage-begins-in-nh-on-jan-1-100077|access-date=October 30, 2012|newspaper=Bay Windows|date=December 14, 2009}}
• February 24: Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler issues a legal opinion stating that state agencies could begin to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, under the principle of comity.{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022403630.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Md. attorney general: State to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere | first1=Aaron C. | last1=Davis | first2=John | last2=Wagner | date=February 24, 2010 | access-date=May 23, 2010}}
• March 3: Washington, D.C.'s statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|url=http://dcagenda.com/2010/02/couples-plan-courthouse-visits-to-celebrate-d-c-marriage-law/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814092757/http://dcagenda.com/2010/02/couples-plan-courthouse-visits-to-celebrate-d-c-marriage-law/ |archive-date=August 14, 2011 |title=Couples plan courthouse visits to celebrate D.C. marriage law|last=Chibbaro|first=Lou|date=February 24, 2010|publisher=dcagenda|access-date=April 24, 2010}}
• April 1: The 2010 United States census becomes the first to track same-sex-led households, both married and unmarried.{{Cite web |date=August 2013 |title=Frequently Asked Questions About Same-Sex Couple Households |url=https://www2.census.gov/topics/families/same-sex-couples/faq/sscplfactsheet-final.pdf |website=United States Census Bureau}}
• July 8: Judge Joseph Tauro of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts holds in two related cases (Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. United States Department of Health and Human Services) that the denial of federal rights and benefits to lawfully married same-sex couples in Massachusetts under section 3 of the DOMA is unconstitutional.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/us/09marriage.html|title=Judge Topples U.S. Rejection of Gay Unions | work = The New York Times |date=July 8, 2010|access-date=June 2, 2011|first1=Abby|last1=Goodnough|first2=John|last2=Schwartz}}{{cite news|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/09/judge-rules-federal-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/?iref=allsearch&fbid=2-HnSdp2S6g|title=Judge rules federal same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional|work=CNN|date=July 9, 2010|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-date=October 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007134509/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/09/judge-rules-federal-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/?iref=allsearch&fbid=2-HnSdp2S6g|url-status=dead}}
• August 4: U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker rules in Perry v. Schwarzenegger that California's Proposition 8 is an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection clauses.{{cite news |title=Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/08/prop8-gay-marriage.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 4, 2010 |access-date=October 29, 2012}}
• August 31: The Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas, Texas, reverses a 2009 ruling in a same-sex divorce case, ruling that the Texas constitutional ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court further rules that district courts in Texas do not have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a same-sex divorce case.{{cite web|last=Appleton|first=Roy|title=Dallas judge's ruling saying gay couple could divorce in Texas rejected on appeal|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=August 31, 2010|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20100831-Dallas-judge-s-ruling-saying-gay-8553.ece|access-date=August 31, 2010}}
• November 2: In judicial retention elections, Iowa voters remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who joined the ruling that invalidated the state's ban on same-sex marriage in 2009.{{cite news |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101103/NEWS09/11030390/Iowans-dismiss-three-justices |title=Iowans Dismiss Three Justices |work=Des Moines Register |date=November 3, 2010 |access-date=February 3, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20101227135753/http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101103/NEWS09/11030390/Iowans-dismiss-three-justices |archive-date=December 27, 2010 }}

• January 31: Governor Pat Quinn from Illinois signs a civil unions bill into law.{{cite web |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/illinois-governor-signs-historic-law-extends-a-measure-of-fairness-to-all-couples-114938224.html |title=Illinois Governor Signs Historic Law, Extends a Measure of Fairness to All Couples |date=31 January 2011 |website=CISION PR Newswire |access-date=28 June 2021}} The bill was previously approved 32–24 by the state Senate on 1 December{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01/illinois-civil-unions-bil_2_n_790595.html |title=Illinois Civil Unions Bill Passes Senate, Gov. Quinn Will Sign Into Law |work=Huffington Post |access-date=26 July 2012 |first=Jen |last=Sabella |date=1 December 2010}} and 61–52 by the state House of Representatives on 30 November.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/illinois-civil-unions-bil_1_n_790147.html |title=Illinois Civil Unions Bill PASSES State House |work=Huffington Post |access-date=26 July 2012 |first=Jen |last=Sabella |date=30 November 2010}} It came into effect on 1 June.{{cite news|title=Illinois Gay Civil Unions Law Takes Effect; Mass Ceremonies Planned|newspaper=Christian Post|date=1 June 2011|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/illinois-begins-issuing-civil-union-licenses-to-same-sex-couples-50729/|first=Lawrence | last= Jones | access-date=24 February 2012}}
• February 23: Governor Neil Abercrombie from Hawaii signs a civil unions bill into law.{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaiis-governor-signs-civil-unions-into-law/ |title=Hawaii's governor signs civil unions into law |date=23 February 2011 |website=CBS News |access-date=28 June 2021}} The bill was previously approved 18–5 by the state Senate on 16 February{{cite web|last=Johnson |first=Chris |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/02/16/hawaii-civil-unions-bill-advances-to-governor/ |title=Hawaii civil unions bill advances to governor |publisher=Washingtonblade.com |date=16 February 2011 |access-date=26 July 2012}} and 31–19 by the state House of Representatives on 11 February.{{cite web|url=http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/02/hawaii-house-passes-bill-recognizing-same-sex-civil-unions.php |title=Hawaii House passes bill recognizing same-sex civil unions |publisher=Jurist.org |date=14 February 2011 |access-date=26 July 2012}} It came into effect on 1 January 2012.{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/01/us/civil-unions/ |title=Two more states allow same-sex civil unions - CNN.com |publisher=Edition.cnn.com |access-date=12 December 2012 |date=2 January 2012}}
• February 23: The Obama Administration announces its determination that discrimination based on sexual orientation is subject to heightened scrutiny and when judged by that standard section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional. It will continue to enforce DOMA's provisions, will no longer defend challenges to the constitutionality of section 3 of DOMA in court, and will cooperate if Congress seeks to defend the statute in court.Department of Justice: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110309162048/http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/February/11-ag-222.html Statement of the Attorney General on Litigation Involving the Defense of Marriage Act, February 23, 2011], Retrieved February 26, 2011
• March 4: Speaker of the House John Boehner launches effort to defend DOMA's constitutionality in court by convening the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), tasked with "initiating action by the House to defend this law."{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boehner-launches-effort-to-defend-gay-marriage-ban/|title=Boehner Launches Effort to Defend Gay Marriage Ban|work=Fox News|date=26 March 2015 |access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• May 11: Governor Jack Markell from the US state of Delaware signs a civil unions bill into law.{{cite web |author=One-Time Gifts |url=http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/delaware-governor-signs-civil-union-bill-into-law |title=Delaware Governor Signs Civil-Union Bill Into Law |publisher=Hrc.org |access-date=26 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724230723/http://www.hrc.org/blog/entry/delaware-governor-signs-civil-union-bill-into-law |archive-date=24 July 2012 |url-status=dead }} The bill was previously approved 26–15 by the state House of Representatives on 14 April{{cite news|last=Chase |first=Randall |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/delaware-same-sex-civil-union-law_n_849513.html |title=Delaware Same-Sex Civil Unions Law Heads To Governor For Signature |work=Huffington Post |access-date=26 July 2012 |date=15 April 2011}} and 13–6 by the state Senate on 7 April.{{cite web|last=Bolcer |first=Julie |url=http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/04/07/Delaware_Senate_Passes_Civil_Unions_Bill/ |title=Delaware Senate Passes Civil Unions Bill |date=7 April 2011 |publisher=Advocate.com |access-date=26 July 2012}} It came into effect on 1 January 2012.
• June 24: Governor Andrew Cuomo from New York signs a same-sex marriage bill into law. The bill was previously approved two hours early 33–29 by the state Senate and 80–63 by the state Assembly on 5 June.{{cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/15/new-york-gay-marriage-state-assembly-approves-bill_n_877889.html |title=New York Gay Marriage: State Assembly Approves Same-Sex Marriage Bill |work=Huffington Post |access-date=26 July 2012 |first=Adam |last=Goldberg |date=15 June 2011}} It came into effect on 24 July.[https://web.archive.org/web/20111101225700/http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/wedding-bells-will-ring-on-july-24-in-new-york-city.php "Wedding Bells Will Ring on July 24 in New York City"] talkingpointsmemo.com Retrieved 23 February 2012.
• July 1: A civil unions bill in the US state of Rhode Island becomes effective, Independent Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the bill on 2 July 2011 but the law was made retroactive from 1 July 2011.{{cite news|last=Howard |first=Zach |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gaymarriage-rhodeisland-idUSTRE7611JF20110702 |title=Rhode Island governor signs gay civil union law despite doubts |work=Reuters |access-date=26 July 2012 |date=2 July 2011}} The bill was previously approved 21–16 by the state Senate on 29 June{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/us/30unions.html?_r=1 |title=Rhode Island Lawmakers Approve Civil Unions |work=The New York Times |date=30 June 2011 |access-date=26 July 2012 |first=Abby |last=Goodnough}} and by the Assembly in a 62–11 vote on 20 May.{{cite web|url=http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/05/rhode-island-house-approves-civil-union-bill.php |title=Rhode Island House approves civil union bill |publisher=Jurist.org |date=20 May 2011 |access-date=26 July 2012}}
• July 24: New York's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news| url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/gay-marriage-in-albany-wedding-bells-ring-repeatedly/ | work=The New York Times | first=Danny | last=Hakim | title=Gay Marriage – In Albany, Wedding Bells Ring Repeatedly | date=July 24, 2011}}
• August 1: Washington state's Native American Suquamish tribe approves granting same-sex marriages.{{cite news |last=Gardner |first=Steven |url=http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/aug/01/suquamish-tribe-approves-same-sex-marriage/ |title=Suquamish Tribe approves same-sex marriage |newspaper=Kitsap Sun |access-date=December 20, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803201749/http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/aug/01/suquamish-tribe-approves-same-sex-marriage/ |archive-date=August 3, 2011 }}
• September 20: Navy Lt. Gary C. Ross becomes the first active member of the U.S. military to legally marry a same-sex partner moments after the repeal of the military's "don't ask don't tell" policy takes effect.{{cite news |last=Mak| first=Tim |title=Post-'don't ask', gay Navy Lt. marries|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63909.html|access-date=March 9, 2013 |newspaper=POLITICO|date=September 20, 2011}}

• February 7: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirms district court Judge Vaughn Walker's decision in Perry that overturned California Proposition 8.{{cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/court-overturns-prop-8-california-says-state-t-181451250.html |publisher=Yahoo! Blog |title=Court overturns Prop. 8 in California, says state can't ban gay marriage |first=Goodwin |last=Liz |date=February 7, 2012 |access-date=October 7, 2012}}
• February 13: Governor Christine Gregoire from the Washington signs a same-sex marriage bill into law.{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017497028_gaymarriage14m.html|title=Gregoire signs gay marriage into law|access-date=July 8, 2012 | work=The Seattle Times|first=Lornet|last=Turnbull|date=February 13, 2012}} The bill was priorly approved 55–43 by the state House on 8 February{{cite news|title=Gay-marriage bill passes House, awaits Gregoire's signature|newspaper=The Seattle Times|date=8 February 2012|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017459861_gaymarriage09m.html|access-date=8 February 2012|first=Andrew|last=Garber}} and 28–21 by the state Senate on 1 February.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/us/washington-state-senate-passes-gay-marriage-bill.html?_r=1&hp | work=The New York Times | first=William | last=Yardley | title=Washington State Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill | date=1 February 2012}} However, opponents organized a referendum that took place on 6 November.
• February 17: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie vetoes a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/nyregion/new-jersey-senate-votes-for-gay-marriage.html|title=New Jersey Senate Votes to Legalize Gay Marriage|access-date=July 8, 2012 | work=The New York Times|first=Kate|last=Zernike|date=February 13, 2012}}
• February 22: Judge Jeffrey White rules section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in Golinski v. Office of Personnel Management.{{cite news |magazine=The Advocate |date=February 22, 2012 |author=Diane Anderson-Minshall |access-date=February 22, 2012 |title=Judge Finds DOMA Unconstitutional |url=http://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2012/02/22/doma-found-unconstitutional}}
• March 1: Governor Martin O'Malley from Maryland signs a same-sex marriage bill into law.{{cite news|last=Linskey|first=Anne|title=O'Malley to sign same-sex marriage bill today|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-omalley-to-sign-samesex-marriage-bill-today-20120229,0,1317765.story|access-date=March 1, 2012|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=March 1, 2012|archive-date=June 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130623054757/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-omalley-to-sign-samesex-marriage-bill-today-20120229,0,1317765.story|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |agency=AP |title=Md. Governor Signs Bill Legalizing Gay Marriage |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/md-governor-signs-bill-legalizing-gay-marriage-15828907#.T0_2wqVdkuw|access-date=March 1, 2012|newspaper=ABC News|date=March 1, 2012}}{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/01/us/maryland-same-sex-marriage/index.html?eref=rss_topstories |title=Maryland governor to sign same-sex marriage bill |publisher=CNN |access-date=26 July 2012 |date=12 March 2012}} The bill was previously approved by the Senate, 25–22, on 23 February[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/same-sex-marriage-bill-approved-by-maryland-senate/2012/02/23/gIQAupqSWR_blog.html Same-sex marriage bill approved by Maryland Senate] The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 February 2012. and by the House, 72–67, on 17 February.[http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/02/17/breaking-md-house-passes-marriage/ Breaking: MD House Passes Marriage] The Washington Blade. Retrieved 17 February 2012. However, opponents organized a referendum that took place on 6 November.
• March 21: The New Hampshire House of Representatives rejects the repeal of the state's 2009 same-sex marriage law.{{cite news |newspaper=Politico |date=March 22, 2012 |access-date=March 22, 2012 |title=New Hampshire same-sex marriage law upheld |author= Gary Rayno|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74374.html}}
• May 8: Voters in North Carolina approve North Carolina Amendment 1, defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman and prohibiting the recognition of any type of same-sex union in that state.{{cite news|url=http://wtvr.com/2012/05/08/north-carolina-passes-same-sex-marriage-amendment-one/|title=N.C. passes same-sex marriage ban|author=Alix Bryan|date=May 8, 2012|access-date=May 17, 2012|work=WTVR-TV}} This would be the very last time a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage would pass.
• May 9: President Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to declare his support for legalizing same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/obama-gay-marriage_n_1503245.html|title=Obama Backs Gay Marriage|first=Sam|last=Stein|agency=The Huffington Post|date=May 9, 2012|access-date=May 9, 2012}}
• May 14: Governor Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island signs an executive order directing state agencies to treat same-sex marriages performed out-of-state in the same manner as those of different-sex couples.{{cite news|last=Niedowski|first=Erika|title=Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Governor, Declares State Will Recognize Out-Of-State Gay Marriages|url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/ri-gay-marriage-lincoln-chafee_n_1515725.html?ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices|access-date=May 14, 2012|newspaper=The Huffington Post|date=May 14, 2012|archive-date=January 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112010241/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/ri-gay-marriage-lincoln-chafee_n_1515725.html?ref=gay-voices&ir=Gay%20Voices|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last=Anderson-Minshall|first=Diane|title=Rhode Island Will Recognize Same-Sex Marriages From Other States|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2012/05/14/rhode-island-will-recognize-same-sex-marriages-other-states|access-date=May 14, 2012|newspaper=The Advocate|date=May 14, 2012}}
• May 18: The Maryland Court of Appeals rules unanimously in Port v. Cowan that same-sex marriages established in other states are valid.{{cite web|title=Port v. Cowan, No. 69, September Term, 2011. (May 18, 2012)|url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/md-court-of-appeals/1601252.html|work=Findlaw|access-date=September 19, 2012}}
• May 31: A unanimous three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the decisions in Gill and Massachusetts that found section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional.{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-31/defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional-appeals-court-says-1-.html |title=Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Says |work=Bloomberg |last=Jeffrey |first=Don |date=May 31, 2012 |access-date=September 19, 2012}}
• May 31: The Conservative branch of American Judaism approves same-sex marriage ceremonies, offering two model wedding ceremonies and guidelines for a same-sex divorce.{{cite news|title=Conservative Jews approve gay wedding guidelines|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/conservative-jews-approve-gay-wedding-guidelines/|access-date=January 25, 2014|newspaper=FOX News|date=June 1, 2012}}
• June 6: Judge Barbara Jones of the District Court for the Southern District of New York finds section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional in Windsor v. United States.{{cite web |work=Metro Weekly |url=http://www.Metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/06/another-federal-judge-finds-doma-marriage-definiti.html |first=Chris |last=Geidner |title=Another Federal Judge Finds DOMA Marriage Definition Unconstitutional, Now in Widow's Case |date=June 6, 2012 |access-date=September 19, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607051055/http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/06/another-federal-judge-finds-doma-marriage-definiti.html |archive-date=June 7, 2012 }}
• June 23: The first same-sex marriage on a U.S. military base is celebrated in the chapel at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey.{{cite news|last=McLaughlin|first=Erin|title=First Military Base Same-Sex Wedding Held|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/first-military-base-same-sex-wedding-held/|access-date=March 9, 2013|newspaper=ABC News|date=July 19, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Goldstein|first=Katherine|title=The Wedding |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_wedding/2012/07/erwynn_umali_and_will_behrens_the_first_gay_wedding_on_a_military_base_.single.html |access-date=March 9, 2013 |newspaper=Slate |date=July 17, 2012}}
• July 6: The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church defeats 52% to 48% a proposal to define marriage as "a covenant between two people" instead of "a civil contract between a woman and a man". It endorses a two-year study of the theology of marriage.{{cite news|last=MacDonald|first=G. Jeffrey|title=Presbyterian church rejects same-sex marriage |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2012/0707/Presbyterian-church-rejects-same-sex-marriage|access-date=January 25, 2014 |newspaper=Christian Science Monitor|date=July 7, 2012}}
• July 7: Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts becomes the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/fashion/weddings/barney-frank-wedding-jim-ready.html |title=Barney Frank Weds Jim Ready|access-date=July 8, 2012 | work=The New York Times |first=Michael M.|last=Grynbaum|date=July 7, 2012}}
• July 10: The Episcopal Church approves a rite for blessing same-sex unions. It can be used subject to the approval of the local bishop without respect to the legal status of such unions.{{cite news|last=Goodstein|first=Laurie |title=Episcopalians Approve Rite to Bless Same-Sex Unions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/us/episcopalians-approve-rite-to-bless-same-sex-unions.html|access-date=January 25, 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 10, 2012}}
• July 26: Massachusetts' highest court rules in Elia-Warnken v. Elia that the state recognizes a same-sex civil union established in a different jurisdiction as the legal equivalent of a marriage.{{cite news|last=Finucane|first=Martin|title=Massachusetts high court says it recognizes Vermont civil unions as marriages|url=https://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/07/26/massachusetts-high-court-says-recognizes-vermont-civil-unions-marriages/obnzcesjkEkkpd2HZyhBCI/story.html|access-date=September 22, 2012|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=July 26, 2012}}
• July 31: Judge Vanessa L. Bryant of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut holds in Pedersen v. Office of Personnel Management that section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional.{{cite web |last=Geidner |first=Chris |title=Federal Trial Court In Connecticut Strikes Down DOMA's Marriage Definition |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-trial-court-in-connecticut-strikes-down-do |publisher=BuzzFeed Politics |access-date=September 19, 2012}}
• August 8: A federal court in Hawaii rejects a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage, Jackson v. Abercrombie.{{cite news|last=Kobayashi|first=Ken|title=Federal judge upholds Hawaii ban on same-sex marriage|url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/165487106.html?id=165487106|access-date=October 9, 2012|newspaper=Star Advertiser|date=August 8, 2012|archive-date=August 12, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812205526/http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/165487106.html?id=165487106|url-status=dead}}
• August 28: The Republican National Convention approves a platform that asserts right of the federal government and each state to deny legal recognition to same-sex marriages and endorses a constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.{{cite news|title=GOP OKs platform barring abortions, gay marriage|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-oks-platform-barring-abortions-gay-marriage/|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=Fox News|date=August 28, 2012}}
• September 5: The Democratic National Convention adopts a political platform that supports marriage equality for the first time in its history and opposes all constitutional amendments that would exclude same-sex couples from marriage.{{cite news|last=Cassata|first=Donna|title=Democratic platform focuses on fixing the economy|url=https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/2012/09/04/democratic-platform-focuses-fixing-the-economy/gtENZQrFSSf6r1o8SaOVwL/story.html|access-date=November 27, 2012|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=September 4, 2012}}
• September 12: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that domestic partnerships established in other jurisdictions are recognized "as equivalent to marriage".{{cite web|title=SJC: Massachusetts Recognizes California Registered Domestic Partnerships|url=http://www.glad.org/current/news-detail/sjc-massachusetts-recognizes-california-registered-domestic-partnerships|publisher=GLAD|access-date=July 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512151638/http://www.glad.org/current/news-detail/sjc-massachusetts-recognizes-california-registered-domestic-partnerships|archive-date=May 12, 2013}}
• October 18: In Windsor v. United States, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rules Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as unconstitutional, holding sexual orientation to be a quasi-suspect classification, and determining that laws that classify people on such basis should be subject to intermediate scrutiny.{{cite news|last=Weiss|first=Debra Cassens|title=2nd Circuit Rules for Surviving Gay Spouse, Says DOMA Violates Equal Protection Clause|url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/2nd_circuit_rules_for_surviving_gay_spouse_seeking_estate_tax_deduction_in_/|access-date=October 18, 2012|newspaper=ABA Journal|date=October 18, 2012}}
• November 6: Voters in Minnesota defeat a state constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as "a union of one man and one woman."{{cite news|title=Minnesota voters reject marriage amendment|url=http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/249158/|access-date=November 7, 2012|newspaper=Duluth News Tribune|date=November 7, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108163511/http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/249158/|archive-date=November 8, 2012}}
• November 6: Voters in Maine,{{cite news|last=Rapoza|first=Kenneth|title=Maine Voters Approve Same Sex Marriage|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/11/06/maine-voters-approve-same-sex-marriage/|access-date=December 10, 2012|newspaper=Forbes|date=November 6, 2012}} Maryland,{{cite news|last=Linsky|first=Annie|title=Voters approve same-sex marriage law|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2012/11/07/voters-approve-same-sex-marriage-law/|access-date=December 10, 2012|newspaper=Baltimore Sun|date=November 7, 2012|archive-date=May 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509081247/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-11-07/news/bs-md-same-sex-ballot-20121106_1_marriage-law-marriage-case-maryland-marriage-alliance|url-status=live}} and Washington{{cite news|last=La Corte|first=Rachel|title=Supporters of Referendum 74 declare victory|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019626934_apwagaymarriage.html|access-date=April 18, 2014|newspaper=Seattle Times|date=November 7, 2012}} become the first in history to approve legislation establishing same-sex marriage.
• November 29: U.S. District Court Judge Robert C. Jones rules in Sevcik v. Sandoval that Nevada's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Chris|title=Nev. federal court rules against same-sex marriage|url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/29/nev-federal-court-rules-against-same-sex-marriage/|access-date=November 30, 2012|newspaper=Washington Blade|date=November 29, 2012}}{{cite news|last=Geidner|first=Chris|title=Lambda Legal Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking Marriage Equality in Nevada|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/04/lambda-legal-files-federal-lawsuit-seeking-marriag.html|access-date=August 10, 2012|newspaper=Metro Weekly|date=April 10, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022103151/http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/04/lambda-legal-files-federal-lawsuit-seeking-marriag.html|archive-date=October 22, 2012}}
• December 6: The state of Washington's statute authorizing same-sex marriage takes effect.{{cite news|last=Deutsch|first=Marilyn|title=Washington's gay marriage law takes effect tomorrow|url=http://www.kptv.com/story/20268600/wasw|access-date=December 5, 2012|newspaper=KPTV|date=December 5, 2012|archive-date=December 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206235233/http://www.kptv.com/story/20268600/wasw|url-status=dead}}
• December 7: The Supreme Court grants review of United States v. Windsor, formerly Windsor v. United States, and Hollingsworth v. Perry, formerly Perry v. Brown.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/us/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-two-cases-on-gay-marriage.html|title=Justices to Hear Two Challenges on Gay Marriage|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 7, 2012|access-date=December 8, 2012|first=Adam|last=Liptak}}
• December 29: Maine's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Bell|first=Tom|title=Gay marriage legal; joyous couples begin marrying|url=http://www.pressherald.com/news/Maine-same-sex-couples-begin-license-process-at-1201-am.html|access-date=December 29, 2012|newspaper=Portland Press Herald|date=December 29, 2012}}

• January 1: Maryland's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Rector|first=Kevin|title=Seven same-sex couples wed at City Hall on New Year's morning|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-city-hall-weddings-20130101,0,4132167.story|access-date=January 1, 2013|newspaper=Baltimore Sun|date=January 1, 2013|archive-date=January 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102003326/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-city-hall-weddings-20130101,0,4132167.story|url-status=dead}}
• March 9: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians announces recognition for same-sex marriages, entering into force 60 days later on 8 May.{{cite web |url=http://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/sites/default/files/assets/group/tribal-council/form/2013/marriage-code-3-9-13-1369-1173.pdf |title=POKAGON BAND OF POTAWATOMI INDIANS MARRIAGE CODE |date=3 March 2013 |access-date=5 April 2014 |archive-date=30 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130211453/http://www.pokagonband-nsn.gov/sites/default/files/assets/group/tribal-council/form/2013/marriage-code-3-9-13-1369-1173.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• March 15: The Tribal chairman of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in the U.S. state of Michigan signs a same-sex marriage amendment into law{{cite web |url=http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/breaking/pnr-odawa-tribe-becomes-third-in-nation-to-allow-gay-marriage-marries-first-couple-20130315,0,1861017.story |title=Odawa tribe becomes third in nation to allow gay marriage; marries first couple |publisher=petoskeynews.com |date=15 March 2013 |access-date=28 March 2013 |archive-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619074257/http://www.petoskeynews.com/news/breaking/pnr-odawa-tribe-becomes-third-in-nation-to-allow-gay-marriage-marries-first-couple-20130315,0,1861017.story |url-status=dead }} that had been previously approved by the Tribal Council in a 5–4 vote on 3 March.{{cite web |url=http://www.petoskeynews.com/charlevoix/news/pnr-odawa-tribal-chair-will-sign-statute-recognizing-gay-marriage-20130308,0,5512749.story |title=Odawa tribal chair will sign statute recognizing gay marriage |publisher=petoskeynews.com |date=8 March 2013 |access-date=28 March 2013 |archive-date=19 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619014838/http://www.petoskeynews.com/charlevoix/news/pnr-odawa-tribal-chair-will-sign-statute-recognizing-gay-marriage-20130308,0,5512749.story |url-status=dead }}
• March 21: Governor John Hickenlooper from Colorado signs a civil unions bill into law.Reuters. [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gaymarriage-colorado-idUSBRE92K1BJ20130321 Colorado governor signs law to allow same-sex civil unions]. Retrieved 22 March 2013. The bill was previously approved by the House of Representatives on 12 March in a 39–26 vote[http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22771900/at-least-2-republicans-will-vote-civil-unions Colorado House passes civil unions, but fans note marriage is equality]. Retrieved 28 March 2013. and by the Senate in a 21–14 vote on 11 February.Bartels, Lynn. [http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22564850/colorado-senate-take-official-vote-civil-unions-bill Civil-unions bill passes Colorado Senate 21-14.] The Denver Post. Retrieved 12 February 2013. It came into effect on 1 May.
• April 26: U.S. Judge Harry Pregerson issues an administrative ruling as Chair of the Federal Public Defenders Standing Committee that Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage and DOMA Section 3 deny equal protection to the wife of a female federal employee.{{cite news|author=Hull, Stephanie |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/04/oregon_same-sex_marriage_ban_u.html |title=Bryan Denson, "Oregon same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, federal judge says in employee discrimination case |publisher=oregonlive.com |date=April 25, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013}}
• April 26: The husband of U.S. Representative Mark Pocan, a Wisconsin Democrat, becomes the first same-sex spouse to obtain a congressional spouse identification card.{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Chris|title=In first, Pocan obtains congressional spousal ID for same-sex partner |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/05/09/in-first-pocan-obtains-congressional-spousal-id-for-same-sex-partner/ |access-date=May 9, 2013|newspaper=Washington Blade|date=May 9, 2013}} The validity of a similar one given to the spouse of Representative Jared Polis in 2009 was later called a mistake.{{cite news|last=Wing|first=Nick|title=Mark Pocan, Gay Democratic Congressman, Secures Congressional ID Card For Spouse |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/mark-pocan-gay_n_3253487.html|access-date=January 24, 2014|newspaper=Huffington Post|date=May 10, 2013}}
• May 2: Governor Lincoln Chafee from the U.S. state of Rhode Island signs a same-sex marriage bill into law. The bill was passed shortly before with a final 56–15 vote in the House of Representatives{{cite news |last=Edgar |first=Randal |url=http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/05/rhode-island-house-passes-same-sex-marriage-bill-56-to-15.html |title=Rhode Island House passes bill legalizing same-sex marriage, 56 to 15 |newspaper=The Providence Journal |date=2 May 2013 |access-date=17 July 2013 |archive-date=5 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505073423/http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/05/rhode-island-house-passes-same-sex-marriage-bill-56-to-15.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|title=Rhode Island Joins States That Allow Gay Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/us/rhode-island-joins-states-that-allow-gay-marriage.html|access-date=May 3, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=May 2, 2013}} and on 24 April by the state Senate in a 26–12 vote.{{cite web |url=http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/04/same-sex-marriage-bill-passes-ri-senate.html |title=Same-sex marriage bill passes RI Senate |publisher=news.providencejournal.com |date=24 April 2013 |access-date=17 July 2013 |archive-date=25 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525023149/http://news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/04/same-sex-marriage-bill-passes-ri-senate.html |url-status=dead }} It came into effect on 1 August.
• May 7: Governor Jack Markell from Delaware signs a same-sex marriage bill into law. The bill was passed shortly before by the state Senate by a 12–9 vote{{cite news|title=Delaware to become 11th state with gay marriage|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/07/delaware-gay-marriage/2142703/|access-date=7 May 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=7 May 2013|first1=Doug|last1=Denison}} and on 23 April by the House of Representatives by a 23–18 vote.{{cite news|last=Dawson|first=James|title=Same-sex marriage bill clears state House|url=http://www.wdde.org/42982-same-sex-marriage-passed-house|access-date=23 April 2013|newspaper=WDDE|date=23 April 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512174813/http://www.wdde.org/42982-same-sex-marriage-passed-house|archive-date=12 May 2013}} It took effect on 1 July.{{cite news|last=Byrne|first=Tom|title=Delaware becomes 11th state to approve same-sex marriage|url=http://www.wdde.org/43765-delaware-approves-same-sex-marriage|access-date=May 7, 2013|newspaper=WDDE|date=May 7, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131229085636/http://www.wdde.org/43765-delaware-approves-same-sex-marriage|archive-date=December 29, 2013}}
• May 14: Governor Mark Dayton from Minnesota signs a same-sex marriage bill into law.{{cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/minnesota-gov-dayton-signs-gay-marriage-bill-221037512.html |title=Minnesota Gov. Dayton signs gay marriage bill |publisher=news.yahoo.com |date=14 May 2013 |access-date=17 July 2013}}{{cite news|last=Helgeson|first=Baird|title=Dayton signs same-sex marriage law, which takes effect Aug. 1|url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/207434441.html|access-date=May 15, 2013|newspaper=Minneapolis Star Tribune|date=May 14, 2013}} The bill was passed a day before by the state Senate by a 37–30 vote and on 9 May by the House of Representatives by a 75–59 vote. It came into effect on 1 August 2013.
• June 24: The Santa Ysabel Tribe announce their recognition of same-sex marriage, becoming the first tribe in California to do so.{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/06/24/4971450/california-native-american-tribe.html |title=California Native American Tribe Announces Support of Same Sex Marriage: Santa Ysabel Tribe First in California to Make Proclamation |publisher=Rock Hill Herald Online |date=24 June 2013 |access-date=25 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628034639/http://www.heraldonline.com/2013/06/24/4971450/california-native-american-tribe.html |archive-date=28 June 2013 }}
• June 26: The Supreme Court issues a 5–4 decision in United States v. Windsor, ruling Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional "as a deprivation of the equal liberty ... protected by the Fifth Amendment."{{cite news |last=Liptak|first=Adam|title=Supreme Court Bolsters Gay Marriage With Two Major Rulings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html |access-date=June 26, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 26, 2013}}
• June 26: The Supreme Court issues a 5–4 decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry, dismissing the appeal of the district court's decision on August 4, 2010, when the case was known as Perry v. Schwarzenegger, that affirmed the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Robert|title=Supreme Court clears way for same-sex marriage in California|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-clears-way-for-same-sex-marriage-in-california/2013/06/26/87ddb4d0-d9ac-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html|access-date=June 26, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=June 26, 2013}}
• June 28: Following the Supreme Court's decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lifts its stay of a lower court order that prohibited enforcement of the California Constitution's ban on same-sex marriages.{{cite news|last=Dolan|first=Maura|title=Prop 8: Gay marriages can resume in California, court rules |url=https://latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prop-8-gay-marriage-20130628,0,1889039.story|access-date=June 29, 2013 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 28, 2013}} Same-sex marriages resume in California, after being banned since November 5, 2008.{{cite news|last=Levine|first=Dan|title=Gay marriages resume in California after five-year hiatus |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-gaymarriage-california-idUSBRE95R15N20130629|access-date=June 29, 2013|newspaper=Reuters|date=June 29, 2013}}
• June 28: U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services approves a permanent resident visa (green card) for a same-sex couple for the first time.{{cite news|last=Preston|first=Julia|title=Gay Married Man in Florida Is Approved for Green Card|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/us/gay-married-man-in-florida-is-approved-for-green-card.html|access-date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=June 30, 2013}}
• June 28: The Office of Personnel Management invites the same-sex spouses of civilian federal employees and retirees to enroll in their spouses' health, life insurance, and other benefit programs.{{cite news|title=Same-sex spouses now eligible for federal employee benefits|url=http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130628/BENEFITS00/306280011/Same-sex-spouses-now-eligible-federal-employee-benefits|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701060121/http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20130628/BENEFITS00/306280011/Same-sex-spouses-now-eligible-federal-employee-benefits|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 1, 2013|access-date=June 30, 2013|newspaper=Federal Times|date=June 28, 2013}}
• July 1: Delaware's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|title=Protesters, supporters as Delaware's first gay marriage takes place|url=http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20130701/NEWS01/130701006/Protesters-supporters-Delaware-s-first-gay-marriage-takes-place|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130701151323/http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20130701/NEWS01/130701006/Protesters-supporters-Delaware-s-first-gay-marriage-takes-place|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 1, 2013|access-date=July 1, 2013|newspaper=Delmarva Now|date=July 1, 2013}}
• July 1: Minnesota recognizes the validity of same-sex marriage from other jurisdictions, though it does not yet authorize its own same-sex marriages.{{cite news|last=Miranda|first=Maricella|title=New 2013 Minnesota Laws in Effect July 1|url=http://kstp.com/article/stories/s3082732.shtml|access-date=July 13, 2013|newspaper=KSTP.com|date=June 28, 2013|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001104/http://kstp.com/article/stories/s3082732.shtml|url-status=dead}}
• July 24: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in violation of state law.{{cite news|last=Dale|first=Maryclaire|title=Gay couple marries in Pa. county defying state ban on same-sex unions; 5 licenses issued |url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/relationship/216749781.html|access-date=April 18, 2014 |newspaper=Minneapolis Star Tribune |date=July 24, 2013}}
• August 1: Rhode Island's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Klepper|first=David|title=Same-sex marriages begin in Rhode Island|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/08/01/same-sex-marriages-begin-rhode-island/jmLqnKf1lyRuYr70l9vaMO/story.html|access-date=August 1, 2013|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=August 1, 2013|archive-date=August 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805213707/http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/08/01/same-sex-marriages-begin-rhode-island/jmLqnKf1lyRuYr70l9vaMO/story.html|url-status=dead}}
• August 1: Minnesota's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last1=Helgeson|first1=Baird|last2=Ragsdale|first2=Jim|last3=Brooks|first3=Jennifer|title=Weddings start a new day for gay marriage in Minnesota|url=http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/217858401.html|access-date=August 1, 2013 |newspaper=Minneapolis Star-Tribune|date=August 1, 2013}}
• August 11: John Berry, U.S. Ambassador to Australia, becomes the first U.S. diplomat to marry a same-sex partner.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris|title=Gay U.S. ambassador to Australia marries partner|url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/08/12/gay-u-s-envoy-to-australia-marries-partner-in-d-c-ceremony/|access-date=August 4, 2014|work=Washington Blade|date=August 12, 2013}}
• August 21: The county clerk's office in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|last=Contreras|first=Russell|title=New Mexico county begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses amid pending court battles|url=https://news.yahoo.com/mexico-county-begins-issuing-same-sex-marriage-licenses-022214237.html|access-date=June 9, 2014 |newspaper=Associated Press|date=August 21, 2013}}
• August 23: The county clerk's office in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after being ordered to do so by a state judge on August 22.{{cite news |url = https://latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-same-sex-new-mexico-20130823,0,2716948.story |title=Second New Mexico county now issuing same-sex marriage licenses |last=Pearce|first=Matt|date=August 23, 2013| access-date = August 24, 2013 |work=Los Angeles Times}}
• August 27: The county clerk's office in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after being ordered to do so by a state judge on August 26.{{cite web|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/26/judge-orders-newmexicocountytoissuesamesexmarriagelicenses.html |title=Judge orders New Mexico county to issue same-sex marriage licenses |publisher=america.aljazeera.com |date=August 26, 2013 |access-date=September 4, 2013}}
• August 27: The county clerks of San Miguel, Valencia, and Taos counties, New Mexico, announce they will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite web |last=Clausing |first=Jeri |url=http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/27/2542089/nm-county-told-to-issue-same-sex.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904230515/http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/08/27/2542089/nm-county-told-to-issue-same-sex.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |title=Largest NM county gives same-sex licenses |publisher=tri-cityherald.com |access-date=September 4, 2013 }}
• August 31: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the first member of that court to officiate at the marriage ceremony of a same-sex couple.{{cite news|publisher=NBC News|url=http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/31/20263615-supreme-court-justice-ginsburg-officiates-at-same-sex-marriage |title=Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg officiates at same-sex marriage|date= August 31, 2013 |access-date= September 1, 2013| last=Shulman|first=Margot}}
• September 3: The county clerk's office in Grant County, New Mexico, announces it will make same-sex marriage licenses available during the second week of September.{{cite news |author=Barry Massey, Associated Press |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Los-Alamos-County-faces-gay-marriage-decision-4783546.php |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130904230523/http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Los-Alamos-County-faces-gay-marriage-decision-4783546.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 4, 2013 |title=7th New Mexico county plans to allow gay marriage |newspaper=sfgate.com |access-date=September 4, 2013 }}
• September 4: The county clerk's office in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a New Mexico district court rejects the clerk's arguments against doing so.{{cite news|title=Judge rules in favor of Los Alamos same-sex couple|url=http://www.abqjournal.com/257328/news/los-alamos-couple-denied-marriage-license.html|access-date=September 4, 2013|newspaper=Albuquerque Journal|date=September 4, 2013}}
• September 12: A Pennsylvania state judge orders Montgomery County to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|last=Kelley |first=Daniel |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gaymarriage-pennsylvania-idUSBRE98B0WE20130912 |title=Pennsylvania clerk told to stop issuing gay marriage licenses |work=Reuters |access-date=September 12, 2013 |date=September 12, 2013}}
• September 27: A New Jersey state Superior Court judge rules that beginning October 21 the state must allow same-sex couples to marry because they are otherwise denied federal rights due them following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Windsor .{{cite news|last1=Zernike|first1=Kate|last2=Santora|first2=Marc| title=Judge Orders New Jersey to Allow Gay Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/28/nyregion/new-jersey-judge-rules-state-must-allow-gay-marriage.html|access-date=November 18, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 27, 2013}}
• October 15: In North Carolina, the Buncombe County Register of Deeds accepts applications for same-sex marriage licenses from 10 couples, which he does not grant pending authorization from the state attorney general.{{cite news|title=Same-sex couples test North Carolina gay marriage ban|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/15/north-carolina-gay-marriage/2989551/|access-date=November 18, 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=October 15, 2013}}
• October 16: Based on an opinion from the Oregon Department of Justice, Oregon begins recognizing same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.{{cite news|last=Damewood|first=Andrea|title=Oregon To Recognize Marriages of Gay Couples Wed Out of State|url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30815-permalink.html|access-date=November 18, 2013|newspaper=Willamette Week|date=October 16, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224052637/http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-30815-permalink.html|archive-date=February 24, 2014}}
• October 21: After the New Jersey Supreme Court on October 18 unanimously refused to stay a lower court's order pending appeal,{{cite news|last=Zernicke|first=Kate|title=Same-Sex Marriages in New Jersey Can Begin, Court Rules |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/nyregion/same-sex-marriages-in-new-jersey-can-begin-court-rules.html |access-date=November 18, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=October 18, 2013}} same-sex marriages begin and Governor Chris Christie drops the state's appeal of the lower court's ruling.{{cite news|last1=Zernike|first1=Kate |last2=Santora|first2=Marc|title=As Gays Wed in New Jersey, Christie Ends Court Fight|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/nyregion/christie-withdraws-appeal-of-same-sex-marriage-ruling-in-new-jersey.html|access-date=November 18, 2013 |newspaper=New York Times|date=October 21, 2013}}
• November 13: Governor Neil Abercrombie from Hawaii signs a bill granting marriage to same-sex couples, making Hawaii the fifteenth such US state. The legislation was approved by the state Senate by a 19–4 vote on 12 November and previously by the House by a 30–19 vote on 8 November. This legislation started to be debated on 28 October 2013.{{cite news|title=Abercrombie signs same-sex marriage bill into law |url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20131113_Abercrombie_to_sign_samesex_marriage_bill_into_law.html?id=231784121|access-date=13 November 2013|newspaper=StarAdvertiser|date=13 November 2013}}
• November 14: Missouri Governor Jay Nixon announces an executive order to allow same-sex couples married in other jurisdictions to file joint state income taxes if they file joint federal returns.{{cite news|last=Wilson|first=Reid |title=Missouri governor allows same-sex couples to file joint tax returns|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/15/missouri-governor-allows-same-sex-couples-to-file-joint-tax-returns/|access-date=November 18, 2013 |newspaper= Washington Post|date=November 15, 2013}}
• November 20: Governor Pat Quinn from Illinois signs a bill granting marriage to same-sex couples. The legislation was previously approved by the House by a 61–54 vote on 5 November and by the Senate by a 34–21 vote on 14 February.{{cite news|title=Quinn to sign Illinois gay marriage bill this afternoon |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-illinois-gay-marriage-bill-signing-20131120,0,4464600.story|access-date=20 November 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=20 November 2013}}{{cite news| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-illinois-senate-approves-gay-marriage-20130214,0,5929022.story | work=Chicago Tribune | first1=Ray | last1=Long | first2=Rafael | last2=Guerrero | title=Illinois Senate approves gay marriage – chicagotribune.com | date=14 February 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Garcia|first1=Monique |last2=Long|first2=Ray |title=Lawmakers approve gay marriage in Illinois |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/clout/chi-gay-marriage-illinois-20131105,0,7759837.story|access-date=5 November 2013|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=5 November 2013}}
• December 2: Hawaii's statute authorizing same-sex marriages takes effect.{{cite news|last=Chappell|first=Bill|title=Gay Marriages Take Place In Hawaii As New Law Takes Hold|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/02/248188243/gay-marriages-take-place-in-hawaii-as-new-law-takes-hold|access-date=December 2, 2013|newspaper=NPR|date=December 2, 2013}}
• December 19: The New Mexico Supreme Court issues a unanimous decision in Griego v. Oliver that holds that same-sex couples enjoy the same marriage rights as different-sex couples.{{cite news|title=NM Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage rights|url=http://www.abqjournal.com/323346/abqnewsseeker/nm-supreme-court-affirms-same-sex-marriage-right.html|access-date=December 19, 2013|newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |date=December 19, 2013}}
• December 20: Judge Robert Shelby of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah rules in Kitchen v. Herbert that the Utah state constitution's ban on same-sex marriage denies same-sex couples equal protection and due process. The first Utah marriage licenses are issued to same-sex couples.{{cite news|last=Eckholm |first=Erik |title=Federal Judge Rules That Same-Sex Marriage Is Legal in Utah|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/us/utahs-gay-marriage-ban-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html|access-date=December 21, 2013|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 20, 2013}}

• January 6: The U.S. Supreme Court stays the District Court's order of December 20, 2013, in Kitchen v. Herbert, halting same-sex marriages in Utah while the decision is appealed.{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Robert|title=Supreme Court halts same-sex marriages in Utah pending appeal|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/supreme-court-halts-same-sex-marriages-in-utah-pending-appeal/2014/01/06/b1af9794-76e9-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html|access-date=January 6, 2014 |newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 6, 2014}}
• January 10: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the federal government recognizes the marriages of same-sex couples who married in Utah between December 20, 2013, and January 6, 2014. Their number is estimated at 1,360.{{cite news |last=Geidner|first=Chris|title=Obama Administration To Recognize Utah Same-Sex Couples' Marriages |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/obama-administration-to-recognize-utah-same-sex-couples-marr|access-date=January 10, 2014|newspaper=Buzz Feed |date=January 10, 2014}}
• January 14: U.S. District Court Judge Terence C. Kern rules in Bishop v. Oklahoma that Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. He stays enforcement of his decision based on the Supreme Court's action in Kitchen v. Herbert on January 6.{{cite news|last=Eckholm|first=Erik|title=Federal Judge Rejects Oklahoma's Gay Marriage Ban|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/us/federal-judge-rejects-oklahomas-gay-marriage-ban.html|access-date=January 14, 2014|newspaper=New York Times|date=January 14, 2014}}
• February 8: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Saturday, announced a new Department of Justice policy at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for the Human Rights Campaign's greater New York gala. In the speech he announces that all federal government lawyers are to give same-sex marriages, "full and equal recognition, to the greatest extent possible under the law."[https://huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/08/eric-holder-gay-marriage-doj-policy_n_4752270.html DOJ Plans To Recognize More Rights For Same-Sex Couples | HuffPost]
• February 12: U.S. District Court Judge John G. Heyburn rules that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.{{cite news|last=Wolfson |first=Andrew|title=Kentucky ban on gay marriages from other states struck down by federal judge |url=http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20140212/NEWS10/302120050/Kentucky-ban-gay-marriages-from-other-states-struck-down-by-federal-judge |access-date=February 12, 2014 |newspaper=Louisville Courier-Journal|date=February 12, 2014}} He stays his decision on March 19.
• February 13: U.S. District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen rules in Bostic v. Rainey that Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and stays enforcement of her decision pending appeal.{{cite news|last=Snow|first=Justin|title=Federal court rules Virginia same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/02/federal-court-rules-virginia-same-sex-marriage-ban.html|access-date=February 13, 2014|newspaper=Metro Weekly|date=February 13, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222050815/http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/02/federal-court-rules-virginia-same-sex-marriage-ban.html|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}
• February 21: In Lee v. Orr, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman rules that Cook County can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples without waiting for the Illinois statute legalizing same-sex marriage to take effect on June 1.{{cite news|last1=Esposito|first1=Stefano |last2=Schlickerman |first2=Becky|title=Gay marriages in Cook Co. don't have to wait, judge rules |url=http://www.suntimes.com/25741576-761/gay-marriages-dont-have-to-wait-judge-rules.html |access-date=February 21, 2014 |newspaper=Chicago Sun Times|date=February 21, 2014}} Some licenses are issued the same day.{{cite news|last=Manchir|first=Michelle|title=Judge: Same sex couples can marry now in Cook County|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-judge-same-sex-couples-can-marry-now-in-cook-county-20140221,0,381862.story|access-date=February 21, 2014|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=February 21, 2014}}
• February 26: In De Leon v. Perry, U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia rules that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and stays enforcement of his ruling pending appeal to the Fifth Circuit.{{cite news|last=Garrett|first=Robert|title=Federal judge voids Texas' gay marriage ban, though he delays order from taking effect immediately|url=http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/federal-judge-voids-texas-gay-marriage-ban-though-he-delays-order-from-taking-effect-immediately.html/|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Dallas News|date=February 26, 2014}}{{cite news|last=Lindell|first=Chuck|title=Judge overturns Texas ban on gay marriage|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/judge-overturns-texas-ban-on-gay-marriage/ndgJG/|access-date=February 26, 2014|newspaper=Austin American Statesman |date=February 26, 2014}}
• March 5: An ABC News/Washington Post poll finds 59% of Americans support same-sex marriage, a record high.{{cite news|last=Craighill, Peyton M. |first=Clement, Scott|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/support-for-same-sex-marriage-hits-new-high-half-say-constitution-guarantees-right/2014/03/04/f737e87e-a3e5-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html |title=Support for same-sex marriage hits new high; half say Constitution guarantees right |access-date=March 6, 2014|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 5, 2014}}
• March 14: U.S. District Court Judge Aleta Trauger rules in Tanco v. Haslam that the state of Tennessee must recognize the plaintiffs' three same-sex marriages as their case is heard in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.{{cite news|last=Hall|first=Heidi|title=Judge recognizes gay marriages of 3 Tennessee couples|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/14/gay-marriage-tennessee-lawsuit/6432547/|access-date=March 21, 2014|newspaper=USA Today|date=March 14, 2014}} This decision is stayed on April 26 by the Sixth Circuit.
• March 21: In DeBoer v. Snyder, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard A. Friedman rules that Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and does not stay his decision.{{cite news|last=Snow|first=Justin|title=Federal court strikes down Michigan's same-sex marriage ban|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/03/federal-court-strikes-down-michigans-same-sex-marr.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140322022509/http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/03/federal-court-strikes-down-michigans-same-sex-marr.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 22, 2014|access-date=March 21, 2014|newspaper=Metro Weekly|date=March 21, 2014}}
• March 22: In Michigan, several hundred same-sex couples obtain marriage licenses and some marry before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issues a temporary stay of the decision in DeBoer v. Snyder,{{cite news |last=Rein|first=Lisa|title=Hundreds of same-sex couples wed in Michigan before appeals court issues stay |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/michigan-begins-same-sex-marriages-ceremonies/2014/03/22/320ff2ba-b1c5-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html |access-date=March 25, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 22, 2014}} which it makes permanent pending appeal on March 25.{{cite news|last=Brand-Williams|first=Oralandar|title=Appeals Court extends stay in gay marriage case until arguments heard|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140325/METRO06/303250074/Lawyers-Banning-same-sex-marriage-hurts-Michigan-businesses|access-date=March 25, 2014|newspaper=Detroit News|date=March 25, 2014|archive-date=March 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326015405/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140325/METRO06/303250074/Lawyers-Banning-same-sex-marriage-hurts-Michigan-businesses|url-status=dead}}
• March 24: The U.S. division of World Vision, one of the largest Christian charities in the U.S., modifies its employment eligibility rules to include gays and lesbians in same-sex marriages, while "[a]bstinence outside of marriage remains a rule".{{cite news|last1=Gracey|first1=Celeste|last2=Weber|first2=Jeremy|title=World Vision: Why We're Hiring Gay Christians in Same-Sex Marriages|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/march-web-only/world-vision-why-hiring-gay-christians-same-sex-marriage.html|access-date=March 25, 2014|newspaper=Christianity Today|date=March 24, 2014}} It reverses that policy on March 26 in response to protests from its donors.{{cite magazine|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=March 26, 2014|date=March 26, 2014|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2014/03/26/world-vision-reverses-decision-to-hire-gays |title=Prominent Christian charity World Vision reverses decision to hire gay married Christians|first=Rachel |last=Zoll}}
• April 10: U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young, in the case of Baskin v. Bogan, orders the state of Indiana to recognize the same-sex marriage of a terminally ill woman.{{cite news|last=Disis|first=Jill|title=Judge grants request to force Indiana to recognize same-sex marriage|url=http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2014/04/10/judge-today-hear-immediate-challenge-indianas-sex-marriage-ban/7542635/|access-date=April 10, 2014|newspaper=Indy Star|date=April 10, 2014}}
• April 14: U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black rules in Henry v. Himes that Ohio must recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.{{cite news|last=Myers|first=Amanda Lee|title=Judge: Ohio must recognize other states' gay marriages|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/14/ohio-gay-marriage-court/7691313/|access-date=April 14, 2014|newspaper=USA Today|date=April 14, 2014}} On April 16 he stays his ruling pending appeal, except for the birth certificates sought by the plaintiffs for their children.{{cite news|newspaper=Metro Weekly|date=April 16, 2014|access-date=April 16, 2014|title=Federal judge grants partial stay in Ohio marriage-ban ruling|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/04/federal-judge-grants-partial-stay-in-ohio-marriage.html|first=Justin|last=Snow|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416192845/http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2014/04/federal-judge-grants-partial-stay-in-ohio-marriage.html|archive-date=April 16, 2014}}
• May 9: Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza strikes down Arkansas's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Brantley|first=Max|title=Supreme Court halts same-sex marriages in Utah pending appeal|url=http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2014/05/09/judge-chris-piazza-invalidates-arkansass-same-sex-marriage-ban|access-date=June 9, 2014 |newspaper=Arkansas Times|date=May 9, 2014}} The ruling is stayed on May 16 by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
• May 10: Kristin Seaton & Jennifer Rambon of Eureka Springs, Arkansas are the first same-sex couple to receive a marriage license in the overlapping Southern regions of Dixie and Bible Belt.{{cite news|last=Huynh|first=Christina|title=Arkansas issues same-sex marriage licenses|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gay-couples-arkansas-line-outside-courthouse|access-date=June 9, 2014|newspaper=Associated Press|date=May 10, 2014|archive-date=June 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608120321/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gay-couples-arkansas-line-outside-courthouse|url-status=dead}}
• May 13: U.S. District Magistrate Candy Dale strikes down Idaho's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Zuckerman|first=Laura|title=U.S. judge overturns Idaho ban on gay marriage|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-idaho-gaymarriage-idUSBREA4D00Y20140514|access-date=June 9, 2014 |newspaper=Reuters|date=May 13, 2014}} The ruling is stayed on May 15 by the Ninth Circuit.
• May 19: U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane strikes down Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Kirk|title=Federal Judge Strikes Down Oregon's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/us/federal-judge-strikes-down-oregons-ban-on-same-sex-marriage.html|access-date=June 9, 2014 |newspaper=New York Times|date=May 19, 2014}}
• May 20: U.S. District Court Judge John Jones strikes down Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|author1=Chokshi, Niraj |author2=Wilson, Reid |name-list-style=amp |title=Federal judge overturns Pennsylvania same-sex marriage ban|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/05/20/federal-judge-overturns-pennsylvania-same-sex-marriage-ban/|access-date=June 9, 2014 |newspaper=Washington Post|date=May 20, 2014}}
• June 6: U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb strikes down Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last=Ohlheister|first=Abby|title=A Federal Judge Overturns Wisconsin's Same-Sex Marriage Ban|url=http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/06/a-federal-judge-overturns-wisconsins-same-sex-marriage-ban/372374/|access-date=June 9, 2014|newspaper=The Wire|date=June 6, 2014|archive-date=June 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140608155112/http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/06/a-federal-judge-overturns-wisconsins-same-sex-marriage-ban/372374/|url-status=dead}} The decision is stayed on June 13.
• June 19: The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church approves a resolution to allow ministers to preside over same-sex marriages in states where the unions are legal and local congregational leaders approve, reversing defeat of a similar measure in 2012.{{cite news|last=Karoub|first=Jeff|title=Presbyterian assembly: Gay marriage is Christian|url=https://news.yahoo.com/presbyterian-assembly-gay-marriage-christian-212658672.html|access-date=June 19, 2014 |newspaper=Associated Press via Yahoo!|date=June 19, 2014}} In a separate vote, the assembly approves individual congregational authority to change the definition of marriage from "a man and a woman" to "a union of two people" in their constitution. The amendment requires approval from a majority of the 172 regional presbyteries.{{cite news|last=Warikoo|first=Niraj|title=Presbyterians in U.S. to allow gay marriage ceremonies|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/19/presbyterians-allow-gay-marriage-ceremonies/10922053/|access-date=June 19, 2014 |newspaper=Detroit Free Press via USA Today|date=June 19, 2014}} They become the third Mainline denomination to do so.
• June 25: U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young strikes down Indiana's ban on same-sex marriage. The decision is stayed two days later by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.{{cite news|last=Wilson |first=Charles |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/06/federal-judge-strikes-down-indiana-ban-on-same-sex-marriage/ |title=Federal judge strikes down Indiana ban on same-sex marriage |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=June 25, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• June 25: Ruling 2–1 in Kitchen v. Herbert, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Utah's same-sex marriage ban. It is the first appellate court decision to find that marriage is a fundamental right that applies to same-sex couples.{{cite news|author=Nicholas Riccardi|author2=Brady McCombs |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/06/u-s-appeals-court-rules-utah-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/ |title=U.S. appeals court rules Utah same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=June 25, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}} The decision is immediately stayed in anticipation of an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
• June 25: Boulder County, Colorado, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a stay of the previous day's ruling.{{cite news|last1=Aguilar|first1=John|title=Boulder County begins issuing same-sex marriage licenses; AG says no|url=http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26033269/boulder-county-clerk-begins-issuing-same-sex-marriage|access-date=July 22, 2014|work=Denver Post|issue=June 25, 2014}}
• July 1: U.S. District Court Judge John G. Heyburn expands his February 12 ruling, striking down Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban in its entirety. The decision is stayed immediately.{{cite news|last=Barrouquere |first=brett |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/federal-judge-strikes-down-kentuckys-gay-marriage-ban/ |title=Federal judge strikes down Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 1, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 1: The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals orders the state of Indiana to recognize the same-sex marriage of a terminally ill woman.{{cite news|last=Wilson |first=Charles |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/court-orders-ind-to-recognize-terminally-ill-spouses-same-sex-marriage/ |title=Court orders Ind. to recognize terminally ill spouse's same-sex marriage |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 1, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 9: Judge C. Scott Crabtree of Colorado's 17th Judicial District Court strikes down Colorado's same-sex marriage ban. He stays enforcement of his ruling pending appeal.
• July 10: Denver County, Colorado begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a state judge rules that the Boulder County clerk is under no obligation to stop issuing such licenses despite the state's ban on gay marriage.
• July 11: Pueblo County, Colorado, begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• July 16: In a unanimous decision, the Connecticut Supreme Court rules that same-sex couples are entitled to some of the legal rights of marriage with respect to events that predate the state's establishment of same-sex civil unions in 2005 and same-sex marriage in 2008.{{cite news|last1=Collins|first1=Dave|title=Connecticut Court Affirms Pre-Gay Marriage Rights|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/connecticut-court-affirms-pre-gay-marriage-rights-24591973|access-date=July 17, 2014|work=ABC News|agency=AP |date=July 17, 2014}}
• July 17: Florida Circuit Judge Luis M. Garcia, ruling in Huntsman v. Heavilin, strikes down the state's ban on same-sex marriage with respect to Monroe County. It is stayed the same day when the state files an appeal.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris |title=Judge rules for marriage equality in Florida Keys |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/07/17/judge-rules-marriage-equality-florida-keys/|access-date=July 17, 2014 |work=Washington Blade|date=July 17, 2014}}
• July 18: Ruling 2–1 in Bishop v. United States, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down Oklahoma's ban on same-sex marriage ban, repeating the arguments it made with respect to Utah on June 25.{{cite news|last1=Margolin|first1=Emma|title=A mixed day for marriage equality in the 10th Circuit|url=https://msnbc.com/msnbc/tenth-circuit-declares-oklahomas-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitutional|access-date=September 5, 2014|work=MSNBC|date=July 18, 2014}}
• July 18: The Colorado Supreme Court orders the clerk of Denver County to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/colo-supreme-court-orders-denver-to-stop-issuing-same-sex-marriage-licenses/ |title=Colo. Supreme Court orders Denver to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 18, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 18: The United States Supreme Court grants a stay of a lower court decision requiring the state of Utah to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages performed there between December 20, 2013, and January 6, 2014.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/u-s-supreme-court-delays-benefits-for-utah-same-sex-couples/ |title=U.S. Supreme Court delays benefits for Utah same-sex couples |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 18, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 21: Pueblo County, Colorado, stops issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/pueblo-county-colo-reluctantly-stops-issuing-marriage-licenses-to-gay-couples/ |title=Pueblo County, Colo., 'reluctantly' stops issuing marriage licenses to gay couples |newspaper=LGBTQ Nation |date=July 22, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 23: U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore strikes down Colorado's same-sex marriage ban. The decision is stayed on August 21.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/federal-judge-rules-colo-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitutional-orders-temporary-stay/ |title=Federal judge strikes down Colo. gay marriage ban, orders temporary stay |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 23, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 25: The Colorado Court of Appeals rules that Boulder County can continue issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/colo-appeals-court-refuses-to-stop-boulders-same-sex-marriage-licenses/ |title=Colo. appeals court refuses to stop Boulder's same-sex marriage licenses |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 25: In Pareto v. Ruvin, Florida Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel strikes down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as applied to Miami-Dade County. She puts enforcement of her ruling on hold pending appeal.{{cite news|author=Staff |url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/07/same-sex-marriage-ban-struck-down-for-miami-area/ |title=Same-sex marriage ban struck down for Miami area, ruling put on hold |publisher=lgbtqnation.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 25, 2014 |access-date=August 22, 2014}}
• July 28: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, ruling 2–1 in Bostic v. Schaefer, strikes down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban.{{cite news |last=Eckholm|first=Erik|title=Appeals Panel Rejects Virginia Gay-Marriage Ban |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/us/virginias-ban-on-gay-marriage-is-unconstitutional-court-rules.html |access-date=August 24, 2014 |newspaper=New York Times |date=July 28, 2014}}
• July 29: The Colorado Supreme Court orders the Boulder County clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news |last=Brydum|first=Sunnivie|title=Colo. Supreme Court Stops Boulder Same-Sex Marriages |url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/07/30/colo-supreme-court-stops-boulder-same-sex-marriages|access-date=August 4, 2014|newspaper=The Advocate |date=July 30, 2014}}
• July 31: In a unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that a 2009 law allowing same-sex couples to apply for domestic partnerships does not violate the state's Marriage Protection Amendment.{{cite news|title=Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds state's domestic partner registry|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/wisconsin-supreme-court-upholds-states-domestic-parter-registry-b99321113z1-269364021.html|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel|date=July 31, 2014|access-date=August 24, 2014}}
• August 4: Florida Circuit Judge Dale Cohen strikes down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as applied to Broward County. He puts enforcement of his ruling on hold pending appeal.{{cite news |last=Rothaus|first=Steve|title=Broward judge rules gay-marriage ban unconstitutional |url=http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/04/4271084/broward-to-rule-on-floridas-gay.html|access-date=August 4, 2014|newspaper=The Miami Herald |date=August 4, 2014}}
• August 20: The United States Supreme Court stays enforcement of the Fourth Circuit's July 28 decision in Bostic pending appeal.{{cite news|last=Rappeport |first=Alan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/us/supreme-court-puts-gay-marriage-on-hold-in-virginia.html |title=Supreme Court Delays Gay Marriage in Virginia, a Day Before It Was Set to Begin |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 20, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2014}}
• August 21: U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lewis Hinkle rules in two cases that Florida's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and stays his decision pending appeal.{{cite news |last1=Snow|first1=Justin|title=Federal judge rules Florida same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional |url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2014/08/federal-judge-rules-florida-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/|access-date=August 21, 2014|work=Metro Weekly|date=August 21, 2014}}
• September 3: U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman rules in Robicheaux v. Caldwell that Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage serves its "legitimate interest ... in linking children to an intact family formed by their two biological parents". It is the first federal court decision find a state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples constitutional since the Supreme Court ruling in Windsor in June 2013.{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Campbell |title=Federal Judge, Bucking Trend, Affirms Ban on Same-Sex Marriages in Louisiana |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/louisiana-gay-marriage-ban-upheld-by-federal-judge.html |access-date=September 4, 2014|work=New York Times |date=September 3, 2014}}
• September 4: The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, in a unanimous opinion authored by Judge Richard Posner, upholds the district court decisions in Baskin v. Bogan and Wolf v. Walker that found Indiana's and Wisconsin's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples unconstitutional.{{cite news|first=Chris|last=Johnson |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/09/04/7th-circuit-rules-marriage-bans-wisconsin-indiana/ |newspaper=Washington Blade| date=September 4, 2014| access-date=September 4, 2014|title=7th Circuit rules against marriage bans in Wisconsin, Indiana }} It stays its decision on September 15.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris|title=7th Circuit stays decision on Indiana same-sex marriage|url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/09/15/7th-circuit-stays-decision-indiana-sex-marriage/ |access-date=September 15, 2014|work=Washington Blade|date=September 15, 2014}}
• September 12: U.S. District Court Judge John Sedwick orders Arizona to recognize one same-sex marriage on a death certificate while he considers a lawsuit challenging Arizona's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|title=Arizona man claims a victory in same-sex marriage battle|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arizona-man-claims-a-victory-in-same-sex-marriage-battle/|access-date=September 15, 2014|work=CBS News|agency=Associated Press|date=September 12, 2014}}
• September 22: State Judge Edward D. Rubin rules that Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.{{cite news|title=Louisiana: Judge Rules Against Marriage Ban|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/us/louisiana-judge-rules-against-marriage-ban.html|access-date=October 6, 2014|work=New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=September 22, 2014}}
• October 3: State Judge J. Dale Youngs rules that Missouri must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Doug|title=Judge orders marriages of Missouri gay couples wed legally elsewhere to be recognized here|url=https://stltoday.com/news/local/metro/judge-orders-marriages-of-missouri-gay-couples-wed-legally-elsewhere/article_f1f0f728-c00a-552b-88d4-099865c685a5.html|access-date=October 6, 2014|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=October 3, 2014}} The state announces it will not appeal on October 6.{{cite news|title=Press Release: Attorney General Koster's statement on his decision not to appeal in Barrier v. Vasterling|url=http://themissouritimes.com/14022/press-release-attorney-general-kosters-statement-decision-appeal-barrier-v-vasterling/|access-date=October 6, 2014 |work=Missouri Times|date=October 6, 2014}}
• October 6: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to take action on all the cases it had been asked to consider from appellate courts in the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits, allowing the circuit court decisions striking down marriage bans in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin to stand.{{cite news|last1=Barnes|first1=Robert|title=Supreme Court declines to review same-sex marriage cases|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-declines-to-review-same-sex-marriage-cases/2014/10/06/ee822848-4d5e-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html|access-date=October 6, 2014|newspaper=Washington Post|date=October 6, 2014}} Stays preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage in Indiana and Wisconsin end automatically with the Supreme Court's action.{{cite web|title=Order, Baskin v. Bogan, September 15, 2014|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/239799373/14-2386-217|publisher=Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals|access-date=October 6, 2014}}{{cite news|last1=Stein|first1=Jason|title=Wisconsin's gay marriage ban to stay in place until U.S. Supreme Court rules|url=http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/gay-marriage-ban-to-stay-in-place-until-us-supreme-court-rules-b99353767z1-275484751.html|access-date=October 6, 2014|work=Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel|date=September 18, 2014}}
• October 6: The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals lifts stays in two cases, ordering Oklahoma and Utah to issue same-sex marriage licenses. The Fourth Circuit does the same for Virginia.{{cite news|last1=Geidner|first1=Chris|title=Supreme Court Denies Review Of Same-Sex Marriage Cases, Bringing Marriage Equality To Five States|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-denies-review-of-same-sex-marriage-cases-bring#3h452jn|access-date=October 6, 2014|work=BuzzFeed News|date=October 6, 2014}}
• October 7: Same-sex marriage begins in Colorado after Attorney General John Suthers orders all counties in the state to issue same-sex marriage licenses.{{cite web|url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/10/colo-ag-instructs-all-counties-to-begin-issuing-marriage-licenses-to-gay-couples/|title=Marriage equality now the law of the land throughout the state of Colorado|work=LGBTQ Nation|access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• October 7: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down same-sex marriage bans in Idaho in Latta v. Otter and Nevada in Sevcik v. Sandoval .{{cite news|last1=Geidner|first1=Chris|title=Idaho And Nevada Marriage Bans Are Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/idaho-and-nevado-marriage-bans-are-unconstitutional-federal#3qn1tx0|access-date=October 7, 2014|work=BuzzFeed News|date=October 7, 2014}} Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy suspends implementation of the decision in Idaho the next day.{{cite news|title=U.S. justice temporarily blocks Idaho gay marriage ruling|url=https://news.yahoo.com/u-justice-temporarily-blocks-idaho-gay-marriage-ruling-135953780.html|access-date=October 8, 2014|agency=Reuters|date=October 8, 2014}}
• October 9: Nevada recognizes same-sex marriage following a court order resulting from the Ninth Circuit's ruling in Sevcik on October 7.{{cite news|title=Federal judge signs injunction allowing gay marriage in Nevada |url=http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/10/09/nevada-group-withdraws-request-for-stay-of-gay-marriage-ban/16975791/ |access-date=October 10, 2014|newspaper=Reno Gazette-Journal|date=October 9, 2014}} Following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal to consider Bostic on October 6, West Virginia recognizes same-sex marriage when state officials concede their ban is unconstitutional based on Fourth Circuit's ruling in that case.{{cite news|last1=Eckholm|first1=Erik|title=Same-Sex Marriage Ruling Echoes as West Virginia Relents and South Carolina Persists|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/us/marriage-ruling-echoes-as-west-virginia-concedes-and-south-carolina-persists.html|access-date=October 10, 2014|work=New York Times|date=October 10, 2014}}
• October 10: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy denies a motion to stay sought by Idaho officials who hoped to prevent implementation of the Ninth Circuit's October 7 ruling in Latta.{{cite news|last1=Liptak|first1=Adam |title=Supreme Court Lifts Stay on Same-Sex Marriages in Idaho|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/us/politics/supreme-court-lifts-stay-on-same-sex-marriages-in-idaho.html|access-date=October 10, 2014|work=New York Times|date=October 10, 2014}}
• October 10: U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., ruling in General Synod of the United Church of Christ v. Cooper, strikes down North Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last1=Snow|first1=Justin|title=Federal judge strikes down North Carolina same-sex marriage ban|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2014/10/federal-judge-strikes-down-north-carolina-same-sex-marriage-ban/|access-date=October 10, 2014|work=Metro Weekly|date=October 10, 2014}}
• October 12: U.S. District Judge Timothy Burgess rules in Hamby v. Parnell that Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, immediately legalizing same-sex marriage there.{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|title=Judge Blocks Alaska Gay Marriage Ban |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/us/judge-blocks-alaska-gay-marriage-ban.html|access-date=October 14, 2014|work=New York Times|date=October 12, 2014}}
• October 15: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Idaho with the lifting of the stay in Latta v. Otter.{{cite news|title=First Ada County licenses issued to two plaintiff couples from Idaho's same-sex marriage case|url=http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2014/oct/15/first-ada-county-licenses-issued-two-plaintiff-couples-idahos-same-sex-marriage-case/|access-date=October 15, 2014|work=Spokesman Review|date=October 15, 2014}}
• October 17: U.S. District Judge John Sedwick rules that Arizona's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional in Connolly v. Jeanes. The state orders its agencies to comply immediately.{{cite news|title=Judge strikes down Arizona's ban on gay marriage|url=http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/17/judge-strikes-down-az-gay-marriage-ban/17433261/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141018002746/http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/17/judge-strikes-down-az-gay-marriage-ban/17433261/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 18, 2014|access-date=October 17, 2014|agency=Associated Press|publisher=First Coast News|date=October 17, 2014}}
• October 17: U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl rules in Guzzo v. Mead that Wyoming's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, but issues a temporary stay.{{cite news|title=Federal judge overturns Wyoming gay marriage ban|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Federal-judge-overturns-Wyoming-gay-marriage-ban-5830162.php|access-date=October 17, 2014|agency=Associated Press |work= San Francisco Chronicle|date=October 17, 2014}}
• October 21: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Wyoming, when state officials notify the U.S. district court that they will not appeal the previous week's ruling.{{cite news|last1=Moen|first1=Bob|title=Wyoming becomes latest US state to legalize gay marriage after Supreme Court decision|url=http://www.brandonsun.com/world/breaking-news/wyoming-becomes-latest-us-state-to-legalize-gay-marriage-after-supreme-court-decision-279929382.html|access-date=October 21, 2014|work=Brandon Sun|agency=Associated Press|date=October 21, 2014|archive-date=December 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201034014/http://www.brandonsun.com/world/breaking-news/wyoming-becomes-latest-us-state-to-legalize-gay-marriage-after-supreme-court-decision-279929382.html|url-status=dead}}
• October 21: U.S. District Judge Juan Manuel Perez-Gimenez upholds Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex marriage, concluding that Baker v. Nelson is binding on federal courts.{{cite news|last1=Denniston|first1=Lyle|title=Puerto Rico ban on same-sex marriage upheld|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/10/puerto-rico-ban-on-same-sex-marriage-upheld/ |access-date=November 4, 2014|work=SCOTUSblog|date=October 21, 2014}}
• November 4: U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree rules in Marie v. Moser that Kansas's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. His decision takes effect on November 12 when the state defendants exhaust their options for obtaining a stay pending appeal.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris|title=Judge rules against Kansas same-sex marriage ban|url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/11/04/judge-rules-kansas-sex-marriage-ban/ |access-date=November 4, 2014|work=Washington Blade|date=November 4, 2014}}
• November 5: St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison rules that Missouri's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and that the city of St. Louis can not enforce the ban. City officials announce intentions to grant same-sex marriage licenses immediately.{{cite web|url=http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2014/11/judge-in-st-louis-rules-missouri-same-sex-marriage-ban-unconstitutional/|title=Judge in St. Louis rules Missouri same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional|work=LGBTQ Nation|access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• November 6: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2–1 ruling upholds same-sex marriage bans in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee.{{cite news|last1=Geidner|first1=Chris|title=Federal Appeals Court Upholds Four States' Same-Sex Marriage Bans|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-appeals-court-upholds-michigan-same-sex-marriage-ban|access-date=November 6, 2014|work=BuzzFeed News|date=November 6, 2014}}
• November 7: U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith rules in Lawson v. Kelly that Missouri's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, staying his order pending appeal.{{cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/missouris-same-sex-marriage-ban-is-unconstitutional-federal |first=Chris |last=Geidner|title=Missouri's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules|date=November 7, 2014|access-date=November 7, 2014}}
• November 12: U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel rules in Condon v. Haley that South Carolina's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. His decision takes effect on November 20.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Chris|title=Judge strikes down South Carolina ban on same-sex marriage |url=http://www.washingtonblade.com/2014/11/12/judge-strikes-south-carolina-ban-sex-marriage/|access-date=November 12, 2014 |work=Washington Blade|date=November 12, 2014}}
• November 19: U.S. District Judge Brian Morris rules in Rolando v. Fox that Montana's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The decision takes effect immediately.{{cite news|last1=Whitcomb|first1=Dan|title=U.S. judge strikes down Montana's gay marriage ban|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gaymarriage-montana-idUSKCN0J32FL20141119 |access-date=November 26, 2014 |work=Reuters|date=November 19, 2014}}
• November 25: U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker rules in Jernigan v. Crane that Arkansas's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The decision is stayed pending appeal.{{cite news|last1=DeMillo|first1=Andrew|title=Arkansas, Mississippi gay marriage bans overturned|url=http://www.wthr.com/story/27482742/federal-judge-overturns-arkansas-marriage-ban|access-date=November 26, 2014|agency=Associated Press|date=November 25, 2014|archive-date=November 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126085720/http://www.wthr.com/story/27482742/federal-judge-overturns-arkansas-marriage-ban|url-status=dead}}
• November 25: U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves rules in Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant that Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.{{cite news|last1=Le Coz|first1=Emily|title=Judge overturns Mississippi same-sex marriage ban |url=http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/11/25/judge-overturns-mississippi-same-sex-marriage-ban/70122842/ |access-date=November 26, 2014 |work=The Clarion-Ledger|date=November 25, 2014}} The Fifth Circuit stays his ruling on December 4.{{cite news|last1=Denniston|first1=Lyle|title=Same-sex marriages delayed in Mississippi|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/12/same-sex-marriages-delayed-in-mississippi/|access-date=February 4, 2015|publisher=SCOTUSblog|date=December 4, 2014}}

• January 5: Miami-Dade County, Florida, Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel allows her decision that held Florida's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional to take effect. Same-sex couples in Miami-Dade County obtain marriage licenses beginning mid-day.{{cite news|work= Miami Herald|date=January 5, 2015|access-date=January 5, 2015|title=Ruling by Miami-Dade judge allows same-sex marriages to begin in Florida | url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article5439081.html |first2=Steve|last2=Rothaus|first1=Patricia|last1=Mazzei}}
• January 6: A stay issued months earlier in the case of Brenner v. Scott expires and same-sex marriage becomes legal throughout Florida.{{cite news|last1=Smiley|first1=Dave|title=South Florida gay couples marry in twilight ceremonies|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article5479842.html |access-date=January 6, 2015|work=Miami Herald|date=January 6, 2015}}
• January 12: U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier rules in Rosenbrahn v. Daugaard that South Dakota's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. She stays her decision pending appeal.{{cite news|last1=Snow|first1=Justin|title=Federal judge overturns South Dakota same-sex marriage ban|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/01/federal-judge-overturns-south-dakota-same-sex-marriage-ban/|access-date=January 12, 2015|work=Metro Weekly|date=January 12, 2015}}
• January 15: U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith rules in Caspar v. Snyder that Michigan must recognize the validity of more than 300 marriages of same-sex couples married the previous March in the time between a district court found the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed that ruling. He stays implementation of his ruling for 21 days.{{cite news|last1=Snow|first1=Justin|title=Federal judge rules Michigan must recognize same-sex marriages|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/01/federal-judge-rules-michigan-must-recognize-same-sex-marriages/|access-date=January 15, 2015|work=Metro Weekly|date=January 15, 2015}} Governor Rick Snyder announces on February 4 that the state will recognize those marriages and not appeal the decision.{{cite news|last1=Eggert |first1=David |title=Gov. Rick Snyder says Michigan will recognize about 300 same-sex marriages performed in 2014 |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/02/04/gov-snyder-michigan-will-recognize-about-300-gay-marriages |access-date=February 4, 2015|work=U.S. News & World Report|agency=Associated Press|date=February 4, 2015}}
• January 16: The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consider four cases on appeal from the Sixth Circuit, consolidating them as one and setting a briefing schedule to be completed April 17.{{cite news|title=Supreme Court Will Hear Four Cases Challenging Same-Sex Marriage Bans |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/supreme-court-will-hear-four-cases-challenging-same-sex-marr|access-date=January 16, 2015|publisher=BuzzFeed News|date=January 16, 2015|first=Chris|last=Geidner}}
• January 23: U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade rules in Searcy v. Strange that Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.{{cite news|last1=Snow|first1=Justin |title=Federal judge strikes down Alabama same-sex marriage ban|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/2015/01/federal-judge-strikes-down-alabama-same-sex-marriage-ban/|access-date=January 23, 2015|work=Metro Weekly|date=January 23, 2015}} Two days later she stays her injunction until February 9.{{cite news|date=January 25, 2015|access-date=January 25, 2015|first=Chris |last=Geidner|work=BuzzFeed News|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/fight-takes-shape-over-whether-alabama-same-sex-couples-can |title= No Same-Sex Marriages In Alabama On Monday, Under Federal Judge's Order}} She issues a similar ruling and stay in Strawser v. Strange four days later.{{cite news|date=January 27, 2015|access-date=January 27, 2015|publisher=AL.com| url=http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/second_alabama_gay_couple_win.html |title= Second Alabama gay couple wins same-sex marriage challenge |first=Brendan |last=Kirby }}
• February 9: With the lifting of stays in two federal court decisions, same-sex marriage becomes legal in Alabama and same-sex couples obtain marriage licenses. Some county judges have continued to enforce the pre-existing ban by not granting licenses to same-sex couples, while some other counties have stopped issuing marriage licenses altogether.{{cite news| publisher=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ala-chief-justice-tells-judges-refuse-gay-marriage-28826019 |first=Jay|last=Reeves| title=Alabama Begins Issuing Marriage Licenses to Gay Couples|date=February 9, 2015 |access-date=February 9, 2015}}
• February 17: A state judge in Travis County, Texas, rules that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and recognizes the common law marriage of two women.{{cite news|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/travis-judge-rules-gay-marriage-ban-unconstitution/nkC2C/ |access-date=February 19, 2015|date=February 17, 2015|title=Travis judge rules Texas gay-marriage ban unconstitutional |work= Austin American-Statesman}} Two days later, another state judge orders the Travis County clerk to issue a marriage license to two women, one of whom is seriously ill. They wed before the Texas Supreme Court stays the judge's order.{{cite news|last1=Lindell|first1=Chuck|title=Travis County clerk issues first legal gay marriage license in Texas |url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/breaking-news/travis-county-clerk-issues-first-same-sex-marriage/nkD63/ |access-date=February 19, 2015|work=Austin American-Statesman|date=February 19, 2015}}
• February 19: A CNN poll finds 63% of Americans believe gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, up from 49% in August 2010.{{cite news|access-date=February 19, 2015|url= http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/poll-obama-approval-rating-economy/index.html |title=Poll: Obama's approval ratings stagnant despite economy| date=February 19, 2015|publisher=CNN}}
• March 2: U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon, who in 2005 had ruled Nebraska's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional only to have his decision overturned, strikes down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage. He orders state officials to cease enforcing that ban as of March 9.{{cite news|title=Federal judge blocks Nebraska's same-sex marriage ban|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-judge-blocks-nebraskas-gay-marriage-ban/2015/03/02/27467922-c0eb-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309120146/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-judge-blocks-nebraskas-gay-marriage-ban/2015/03/02/27467922-c0eb-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 9, 2015|access-date=March 2, 2015|work=Washingtonb Post|agency=Associated Press|date=March 2, 2015}} The decision is stayed by the Eighth Circuit on March 5.
• March 3: The Alabama Supreme Court orders all counties in the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• March 17: A majority of the 171 regional bodies of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) votes to modify their constitution to include same-sex marriage in their definition of marriage.{{cite news| work=New York Times| date=March 17, 2015| title= Largest Presbyterian Denomination Gives Final Approval for Same-Sex Marriage|first=Laurie |last=Goodstein}}
• March 20: Puerto Rico officials announce that they will no longer defend the Commonwealth's ban on same-sex marriage in court and ask the First Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the lower court's ruling in Conde-Vidal v. Garcia-Padilla.{{cite news|last1=Geidner|first1=Chris|title=Puerto Rico Government To Stop Defending Same-Sex Marriage Ban |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/puerto-rico-government-to-stop-defending-same-sex|access-date=March 20, 2015 |work=BuzzFeed News|date=March 20, 2015}}
• April 28: The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges and related cases.{{cite news|title=Gay Marriage Arguments Divide Supreme Court Justices|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html |access-date=April 28, 2015|newspaper=New York Times|date=April 28, 2015|first=Adam|last=Liptak}}
• May 21: U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade rules that all probate judges in the state of Alabama must grant same-sex marriage licenses. She stays her ruling pending a Supreme Court decision.{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-judge-expands-alabama-marriage-ruling-statewide-but#.ekbWqoX4B|title=Federal Judge Expands Alabama Marriage Ruling Statewide, But Puts Order On Hold|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• June 5: Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of the U.S. territory of Guam strikes down its ban on same-sex marriage in Aguero v. Calvo.{{cite web|url=http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2015/06/04/guam-court-issues-ruling-on-same-sex-marriage/28511013/|title=Court strikes down Guam's same-sex marriage ban|author=Cameron I Miculka|date=June 4, 2015|work=Pacific Daily News|access-date=June 10, 2015}} The decision takes effect on June 8.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/09/gay-couples-marry-guam-licensing-same-sex|title=Gay couples begin applying to marry in Guam|work=the Guardian|date=8 June 2015 |access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• June 9: Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen rules that over 500 same-sex marriages performed in Arkansas in May 2014 are valid.{{cite web|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/06/09/judge-validates-over-500-same-sex-marriages-arkansas?team=social|title=Judge Validates Over 500 Same-Sex Marriages in Arkansas|author=Neal Broverman|work=Advocate.com|date=9 June 2015 |access-date=June 10, 2015}}
• June 26: The United States Supreme Court rules in Obergefell v. Hodges that because the fundamental right to marry extends to same-sex couples, same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision renders same-sex marriage legal throughout the entire United States.{{cite web|title=Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Director, Ohio, Department of Health, et al.|url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf|website=supremecourt.gov|access-date=26 June 2015}}
• July 1: The Episcopal Church, by overwhelming votes at its General Convention, removes gender-specific language from church laws on marriage to allow for religious wedding services for same-sex couples. It is the fourth mainline denomination to allow for such liturgies.{{cite web|title=Episcopalians approve gay marriage, allowing religious weddings for same-sex couples|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/07/01/episcopalians-to-vote-on-allowing-gay-marriage-in-churches |work=U.S. News & World Rewport|access-date=July 6, 2015|date=July 1, 2015|agency=Associated Press |first=Brady |last=McCombs|quote=The Episcopal Church joins two other mainline Protestant groups that allowed gay marriage in all their congregations: the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The 3.8-million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lets its congregations decide for themselves, and many of them host gay weddings.}}
• December 16: A Massachusetts Superior Court judge rules in Barrett v. Fontbonne Academy that the Roman Catholic school violated the state's laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender in withdrawing a job offer from a man when it learned he was in a same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last1=Labbe|first1=Mark|title=Judge says Catholic school discriminated against man in same-sex marriage|url=http://ncronline.org/news/people/judge-says-catholic-school-discriminated-against-man-same-sex-marriage|access-date=February 20, 2016|work=National Catholice Reporter|agency=Catholic News Service|date=December 28, 2015}}

• January 5: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approves the immigrant visa petition filed in 1975 by Richard Adams (1947–2012) on behalf of his husband, an Australian citizen, having recognized the validity of their marriage that was the subject of Adams v. Howerton (1982). His husband Anthony Sullivan receives his green card in April 2016.{{cite news|last1=Masters |first1=Troy| title=United States Government says L.A. Gay Couple's 1975 Marriage is Valid|url=http://thepridela.com/2016/06/united-states-government-says-gay-couples-1975-marriage-is-valid/|access-date=June 8, 2016| date=June 7, 2015 | work=The Pride LA}}
• January 6: Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore orders the state's probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.{{cite news|last1=Jonsson|first1=Patrik|title=Roy Moore: the Alabama judge who 'relishes' gay marriage fight|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0107/Roy-Moore-the-Alabama-judge-who-relishes-gay-marriage-fight|access-date=January 15, 2016|work=Christian Science Monitor|date=January 7, 2016}}
• January 14: The Anglican Communion, an international organization, censures its US branch, the Episcopal Church USA because of its support for same-sex marriage, and suspends it from participating in the organization's decisions "on any issues pertaining to doctrine or polity".{{cite news|last1=Winston|first1=Kimberly|title=Episcopal Church suspended from Anglican Communion|url=http://ncronline.org/news/spirituality/episcopal-church-suspended-anglican-communion|access-date=January 15, 2016|work=National Catholic Reporter|agency=Religion News Service|date=January 14, 2016}}
• March 8: U.S. District Court Judge Juan Perez-Gimenez, ordered by the First Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider his October 2014 ruling that found Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex marriage constitutional, rules that the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell does not apply to Puerto Rico because constitutional guarantees do not apply in an unincorporated territory.{{cite news|last1=Geidner|first1=Chris|title=Federal Judge Rules Marriage Ban Still Good Law In Puerto Rico, Governor Disagrees|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-judge-no-marriage-equality-in-puerto-rico|access-date=March 8, 2016|publisher=BuzzFeed|date=March 8, 2016}}
• April 6: The First Circuit Court of Appeals overrules Judge Perez-Gimenez Puerto Rico decision saying it "errs in so many respects that it is hard to know where to begin". It returns the case to the District Court to be assigned to a different judge.{{cite news|last1=Volokh|first1=Eugene|title='The district court's ruling errs in so many respects that it is hard to know where to begin'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/04/07/the-district-courts-ruling-errs-in-so-many-respects-that-it-is-hard-to-know-where-to-begin/|access-date=9 June 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 7, 2016}} On April 7 Judge Gustavo Gelpi rules Puerto Rico's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.{{cite news| url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/04/same-sex-marriage-right-reaches-puerto-rico/ |access-date=June 9, 2016| date= April 8, 2016|first=Lyle | last=Denniston |title=Same-sex marriage right reaches Puerto Rico | publisher=SCOTUSblog}}
• May 6: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended when a judicial oversight group files a complaint that his ordering probate judges on January 6 not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples "flagrantly disregarded and abused his authority".{{cite news| last1=Robertson |first1=Campbell|title=Roy Moore, Alabama Judge, Suspended Over Gay Marriage Stance|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/us/judge-roy-moore-alabama-same-sex-marriage.html|access-date=June 10, 2016|work=New York Times|date=May 6, 2016}}
• June 7: U.S. District Judge Callie V.S. Granade issues a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Alabama's laws against same-sex marriage.{{cite news|last1=Brooks|first1=Karen|title=Judge issues final order upholding Alabama same-sex marriage|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alabama-marriage-idUSKCN0YU2SY|access-date=June 10, 2016|work=Reuters|date=June 9, 2016}}
• July 1: Judge Carlton Reeves extends his earlier decision and prevents a Mississippi law allowing court clerks to refuse marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on their religious beliefs from taking effect.{{cite news | publisher = NPR | access-date = July 1, 2016 | date = July 1, 2016 | title = Judge Blocks Mississippi Law Protecting Religious Objections To Gay Marriage | url = https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/01/484291451/judge-blocks-mississippi-law-protecting-religious-objections-to-gay-marriage | first = Camila | last = Domonoske}}
• July 17: The Republican National Convention approves a platform that condemns Obergefell v. Hodges and calls for its reversal "through judicial reconsideration or a constitutional amendment returning control over marriage to the states". It asserts the "legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman" and calls for "the appointment of justices and judges who ... respect the authority of the states to decide such fundamental social questions. It opposes "government discrimination against businesses or entities which decline to sell items or services to individuals for activities that go against their religious views about such activities."{{cite news|title=Here's The Full Text Of The 2016 Republican Platform| first=Matt | last=Fuller |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/entry/2016-republican-platform-full-text_us_578bce03e4b03fc3ee513eb9 |work=Huffington Post| access-date=July 17, 2016|date=July 17, 2016}}
• July 25: The Democratic National Convention adopts a platform that says "Democrats applaud last year's decision by the Supreme Court that recognized that LGBT people–like other Americans–have the right to marry the person they love."{{cite web|title=2016 Democratic Platform|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/papers_pdf/117717.pdf |publisher=American Presidency Project | access-date=July 26, 2016|date=July 21, 2016}}
• August 1: In his official residence, Vice President Joe Biden, a Catholic, officiates at the wedding of two male members of the White House staff.{{cite news|title=In a First, VP Joe Biden Officiates a Gay Wedding|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/02/us/politics/ap-us-biden-gay-wedding.html|access-date=August 6, 2016|work=New York Times|agency=Associated Press|date=August 2, 2016}} Four days later, three leading Roman Catholic bishops, without naming Biden, call it "a counter witness" to Catholic teaching.{{cite news|last1=Roewe|first1=Brian|title=Not naming names, bishops denounce Biden over role in same-sex wedding|url=https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/not-naming-names-bishops-denounce-biden-role-same-sex-wedding|access-date=August 6, 2016|work=National Catholic Reporter|date=August 5, 2016}}
• December 9: The attorney general of the Cherokee Nation rules that the tribe recognizes same-sex marriage.{{cite news | publisher = CNN | first = Steve | last =Almasy | url = http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/us/cherokee-nation-same-sex-marriage/index.html | title = Cherokee Nation attorney general OKs same-sex marriage | access-date = December 11, 2016 | date= December 9, 2016}}

• March 20: A referendum on whether same-sex marriages should be performed in the Osage Nation in Oklahoma is passed, with 770 voting for same-sex marriage and 700 voting against.{{cite web|url=http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/03/20/osage-nation-votes-yes-gay-marriage/|title=Osage Nation votes 'yes' for gay marriage|work=Osage News|last=Polacca|first=Benny|date=March 20, 2017|access-date=March 21, 2017|archive-date=March 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325013149/http://www.osagenews.org/en/article/2017/03/20/osage-nation-votes-yes-gay-marriage/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url= http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/elections/osage-nation-voters-approve-same-sex-marriage-ballot-question/article_d0f57cc7-c350-506d-b1cd-c8898ab98b0d.html|title=Osage Nation voters approve same-sex marriage ballot question|work=Tulsa World |last=Krehbiel-Burton|first=Lenzy|date=March 21, 2017|access-date=March 21, 2017}} The law takes effect immediately.[https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/congress-legislative-branch/legislation Legislation Documents] ONCA 16–77: "The amendment stated in this Act shall only take effect upon final approval by the Osage People through a referendum vote at a special election."
• March 22: The Minnesota-based Prairie Island Indian Community which forms a part of the Mdewakanton Dakota legalizes same-sex marriage by changing its Domestic Relations Code. Section 1, Chapter 3c of the Code now states that "two persons of the same or opposite gender may marry." A previous version had explicitly banned same-sex marriages.{{cite web |url=http://prairieisland.org/wp-content/themes/tempera-child/docs/Judicial%20Code%20Title%203%20Domestic%20Relations.pdf |title=PRAIRIE ISLAND MDEWAKANTON DAKOTA COMMUNITY JUDICIAL CODE TITLE 3: DOMESTIC RELATIONS |website=prairieisland.org |access-date=April 5, 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224102420/http://prairieisland.org/wp-content/themes/tempera-child/docs/Judicial%20Code%20Title%203%20Domestic%20Relations.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2016 }}
• June 5: the Legislature of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin approves a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, in a 13–0 vote.{{cite web|url=http://www.hocakworak.com/article.aspx?headline=Same-sex+marriage+provisions+approved+by+Ho-Chunk+Legislature|title=Same-sex marriage provisions approved by Ho-Chunk Legislature|work=Hocak Worak|last=Luchterhand|first=Ken|access-date=July 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708011227/http://www.hocakworak.com/article.aspx?headline=Same-sex+marriage+provisions+approved+by+Ho-Chunk+Legislature|archive-date=July 8, 2017}}
• October 25: the Ak-Chin Indian Community Court of the Ak-Chin Indian Community ruled that the law banning same-sex marriage is in violation with the tribe's constitution and the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. The tribe's chairman announced that the government will not appeal the ruling.{{cite news|url=https://azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/10/25/court-orders-ak-chin-tribe-recognize-marriages-same-sex-couples/798905001/|title=Court orders Ak-Chin tribe to recognize marriages of same-sex couples|newspaper=The Arizona Republic|first=Alia|last=Beard Rau|date=October 25, 2017|access-date=October 25, 2017}}

• October 2: the State Department, under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, reverses a 2009 policy instituted under former Secretary Hillary Clinton which allowed family visas to unmarried same-sex partners of diplomats posted in the United States, even if the countries represented by the diplomats have only legalized same-sex civil partnerships but not same-sex marriage. Under the new policy, same-sex partners have to obtain marriages to their diplomat partners within three months or else lose their family visas. The department states that the new policy seeks to "ensure and promote equal treatment" for both same- and opposite-sex couples by the department.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/state-department-changes-visa-rules-for-same-sex-partners-of-foreign-diplomats/2018/10/02/8121759a-c651-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html State Department changes visa rules for same-sex partners of foreign diplomats], October 2, 2018, The Washington Post

• February 26: The United Methodist Church rejects a proposal to ease its restrictions on same-sex marriage.{{cite news | publisher= NPR | title = United Methodist Church Votes To Keep Bans On Same-Sex Weddings, LGBTQ Clergy | url = https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698188343/united-methodist-church-votes-to-keep-bans-on-same-sex-weddings-lgbtq-clergy | first = Bill | last = Chappell | access-date = February 27, 2018 | date= February 26, 2019}}

• Nevada votes by referendum to repeal their constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and replacing it with text protecting the right to marriage regardless of gender, protecting the right of religious officiants to refuse to solemnize a marriage, and mandating equal treatment of legally-valid marriages under law. The ballot measure repeals 2002 Nevada Question 2, with Nevada becoming the first of 30 states to repeal such language from their state constitution since the enactment of Measure 2 by Alaska voters in 1998.

• June 24: The Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; Justice Thomas writes that the court “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell”.{{Cite web |title=Justice Thomas: SCOTUS 'should reconsider' contraception, same-sex marriage rulings |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitutional-rights-00042256 |access-date=2022-06-24 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}
• December 8: To prevent the loss of the right to same-sex marriage, the United States House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act which would nullify DOMA and protect both same-sex and interracial marriages. In July 2022, the bill passed 267–157, with 47 Republican representatives joining the Democrats.{{cite web | url = https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/19/politics/house-vote-same-sex-marriage-protections-supreme-court/index.html | title = House passes bill to protect same-sex marriage in effort to counter Supreme Court | first1 = Clare | last1 = Foran |first2 = Kristin | last2 = Wilson | date = July 19, 2022 | accessdate = July 19, 2022 | work = CNN }} In December 2022, the United States Senate passed the bill 61–36, and the House again voted 258–169 to pass it.{{Cite news |last=Wang |first=Amy |date=8 December 2022 |title=House passes landmark legislation to protect same-sex, interracial marriages |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/08/respect-for-marriage-act-house-vote/ |access-date=8 December 2022}}
• December 13: President Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act into law at the White House.

• May 5: The United Methodist Church votes to lift its ban on officiation of same-sex weddings and ordination of LGBT clergy.
• November 5:
• California and Colorado vote by referendum to repeal their state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage, formally repealing 2008 California Proposition 8 and 2006 Colorado Amendment 43, respectively.
• Hawaii votes by referendum to repeal language from their state constitutional which gave the Hawaii State Legislature statutory power to limit marriage to opposite-sex couples, which had been added to the state constitution by way of 1998 Hawaii Amendment 2.

• January 27: *The Idaho House of Representatives votes 46 to 24, for a resolution that calls for the Supreme Court to reconsider its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges same sex marriage decision.{{Cite news |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Idaho Republican legislators call on SCOTUS to reverse same-sex marriage ruling|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/idaho-republican-legislators-call-scotus-reverse-same-sex/story?id=118217747|access-date=February 2, 2025 |work=}}{{Cite news |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Idaho House calls on Supreme Court to undo same-sex marriage ruling|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5114301-idaho-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-obergefell/|access-date=February 2, 2025 |work=}}{{Cite news |date=January 27, 2025 |title=Idaho House calls on U.S. Supreme Court to reverse same-sex marriage ruling |url=https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/01/27/idaho-house-calls-on-u-s-supreme-court-to-reverse-same-sex-marriage-ruling/|access-date=February 2, 2025 |work=}}
• April 7: Governor Jared Polis signs legislation repealing prohibitive statutory language regarding same-sex marriage in Colorado in compliance with Amendment J.{{Cite web |last=marissa.ventrelli@coloradopolitics.com |first=Marissa Ventrelli |date=2025-04-07 |title=Gov. Jared Polis signs bill repealing constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Colorado |url=https://www.coloradopolitics.com/denver-gazette/colorado-gov-polis-marriage-law/article_dc497097-ed57-4ccc-b7b4-904a662e1331.html |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Colorado Politics |language=en}}

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• [http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2012/05/04/infographic-a-turning-point-for-gay-marriage Infographic: A Turning Point for Gay Marriage?], Pew Research Center, May 4, 2012.
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