ON THIS DAY IN 2013… Ohio Senator Rob Portman became the country’s first prominent elected Republican to endorse marriage rights for...

ON THIS DAY IN 2000… California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 22, becoming the third state to ban same-sex marriage by a...

ON THIS DAY IN 2009... New England attorney Mary Bonauto filed the first lawsuit in which legally married couples challenged the Defense...

ON THIS DAY IN 1998... An Alaska superior court ruled that excluding gays from marriage denies them a fundamental right, ordering a trial...

ON THIS DAY IN 2014… Judge Bernard Friedman gaveled in a trial in his federal courtroom over same-sex marriage rights, setting up a...

ON THIS DAY IN 2013… President Barack Obama and his top legal advisers set a strategy for the administration in two marriage-related...

ON THIS DAY IN 1994... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints urged members to fight any effort to extend "official approval or...

ON THIS DAY IN 2004... San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom began marrying gay and lesbian couples at City Hall in defiance of state law. On...

ON THIS DAY IN 1996... Six Republican presidential candidates signed a pledge to not "legitimize homosexual relationships” in the first...

ON THIS DAY IN 2012... A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit upheld a circuit court’s ruling that a gay-marriage ban approved by...

On November 17, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that excluding same-sex couples from “civil marriage” violated...

ON THIS DAY IN 2010... At a year-end press conference held shortly after Congress passed a law allowing gays to serve openly in military,...

ON THIS DAY IN 2013… A federal district court in Utah ruled that the state’s 2004 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was...

ON THIS DAY IN 1990... Honolulu gay-rights activist Bill Woods led three same-sex couples to demand marriage licenses from the Hawaii...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, the first ever passed by American legislators.