Gay Marriage Legal States Map

Li yinhe a sociologist and sexologist well known in the chinese gay community has tried to legalize same sex marriage several times including during the national people s congress in 2000 and 2004 legalization for same sex marriage 中国同性婚姻合法化 in 2000 and the same sex marriage bill 中国同性婚姻提案 in 2004.

Gay marriage legal states map. Netherlands 2001 2. Supreme court after the ruling in favor of same sex marriage june 26 2015 in washington dc. Her efforts failed due to. By late 2014 same sex marriage had become legal in states that contained more than 70 of the united states population.

In schalk and kopf v austria 24 june 2010 the european court of human rights decided that the european convention on human rights does not oblige member states to legislate for or legally recognise same sex marriages. In this case i based the cartogram on this. Belgium 2003 3. A cartogram is a kind of map that shows states roughly in proportion to their population and so it s more representative of how many people in the us are living under which laws.

Global lgbt rights maps. The remaining 13 states had the right legalized by the supreme court ruling of june 26 2015. In some jurisdictions legalization came through the action of state courts or the enactment of state legislation. The court has held that the european convention on human rights echr requires member states to provide legal recognition but does not require marriage to be opened to same sex couples.

Laws regarding same sex sexuality by country or territory. Worldwide laws regarding same sex intercourse and state of expression and association. According to chinese law 35 delegates signatures are needed to make an issue a bill to be discussed in the congress. This map shows how gay marriage spread across the united states people celebrate in front of the u s.

On november 6 2012 maine maryland and washington became the first states to legalize same sex marriage through popular vote. 14 us states with bans on same sex marriage can no longer enforce them in the wake of a historic us supreme court ruling that gay marriage is now legal across the entirety of the united states. This is an interactive map showing the legality of same sex gay marriage and civil unions in the united states. Arkansas constitution amendment 83.

How can i find more information about a state. Same sex intercourse illegal death penalty death penalty de jure but not enforced life imprisonment limited imprisonment prison de jure but not enforced 1 same sex intercourse legal marriage 2 marriage recognized but not performed 3 civil unions limited domestic recognition cohabitation limited foreign recognition. Click on the state to get a timeline of important events regarding same sex marriage law. The following map shows state laws prior to the supreme court ruling.

Marriage consists only of the union of one man and one woman. Legal status for unmarried persons which is identical or substantially similar to marital status shall not be valid or recognized in arkansas except that the legislature may recognize a common law marriage from another state between a man and a woman. Most other states had enacted constitutional or statutory bans on same sex marriage known as defense of marriage acts.