Pedestrians cross at an intersection near the Stonewall Inn in New York, considered the site of the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. He also wrote that newer anti-discrimination laws aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ people and other minorities “have done much to secure the civil rights of all Americans.” Nonetheless, Gorsuch concluded that wedding website designer Lorie Smith’s work …
Rights groups and other supporters of marriage equality celebrated Tuesday after 12 Senate Republicans joined with all Democrats present to pass protections for same-sex and interracial partnerships. The Respect for Marriage Act does not confirm the right of same-sex couples to marry nationwide, as the U.S. Supreme Court did in Obergefell v. Hodges, but rather requires states to recognize their …
Del Martin, left, slips a ring onto the finger of Phyllis Lyon during a wedding officiated by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in June 2008. The U.S. House on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, amid concerns that the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade’s guarantee of abortion access could jeopardize other rights criticized by …
Jim Obergefell, left, and John Arthur are married by officiant Paulette Roberts, rear center, in a plane on the tarmac at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport near Baltimore in 2013. In his draft decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is the name of the case challenging Roe, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. argues that the Roe ruling in …
