Timeline of same-sex marriage in the United States

Recognized This article contains a timeline of significant events regarding same-sex marriage in the United States.

On June 26, 2015, the landmark US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges effectively ended restrictions on same-sex marriage in the United States.

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.

[6] James Michael McConnell, librarian,[7] and Richard John Baker,[8] law student, applied for a marriage license.

[9] Gerald R. Nelson, Clerk of District Court, denied the license because both applicants were men.

History of same-sex marriage legal status, 1971-2015, with influential legal decisions. Plot shows proportion of US states and the District of Columbia with: historical/traditional definition of marriage (gray); legislation enacted to ban same-sex marriage (blue); constitutional bans on same-sex marriage (yellow, includes states that also have legislative ban); statewide legal same-sex marriage (green). Red bar shows period in which DOMA prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages. [ 5 ]