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By September 2013, nine months after same-sex marriage was legalized in Washington, 7,071 same-sex couples had legally entered into a marriage, 3,452 of them in highly populated King County. [50] Same-sex marriages accounted for 17% of all marriages, and 62% of those were between women. [51]
A newly married couple leaving Seattle City Hall is greeted by well-wishers on the first day same-sex marriages are celebrated in Washington state. Since 2001, Washington state has provided benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. [12] The state adopted a statute defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman in 1998.
Andersen v. King County, 138 P.3d 963 (Wash. 2006), [1] formerly Andersen v. Sims, is a Washington Supreme Court case in which eight lesbian and gay couples sued King County and the state of Washington for denying them marriage licenses under the state's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Referendum 74 (R-74 or Ref 74) was a Washington state referendum to approve or reject the February 2012 bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. [1] On June 12, 2012, state officials announced that enough signatures in favor of the referendum had been submitted and scheduled the referendum to appear on the ballot in the November ...
The trial more than a decade ago led to the resumption in 2013 of gay marriage in the nation’s most populous state. Video of a landmark 2010 trial that cleared the way for gay marriage in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 November 2024. Jack Baker and Michael McConnell (r), the first same-sex couple ever legally married in the United States (in 1971), at their Minneapolis home, 1970 Part of the LGBT rights series Legal status of same-sex unions Marriage Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Chile ...
An ABC News/Washington Post poll, conducted from April 21, 2009, to April 24, 2009, found that, for the first time, a plurality of Americans supported same-sex marriage at 49% and that a majority of Americans supported the marriages of same-sex couples validly entered into in one state being recognized in all states at 53%. [15]
The 2009 Washington Referendum 71 (R-71) legalized domestic partnership in Washington state, the first statewide referendum in the United States that extended to LGBT people the rights and responsibility of domestic partnership. [1] The bill had passed State Legislature, and it was signed into law by the Governor in May 2009, but opponents ...