May 17, 20211 min readMay 17, 2004: First same-sex couples marry in MassachusettsON THIS DAY IN 2004… The first same-sex couples to legally marry in the United States exchanged vows in Massachusetts. The previous...
Apr 11, 20212 min readApril 11, 2001: Mary Bonauto files Massachusetts marriage suitON THIS DAY IN 2001... Attorney Mary Bonauto sued Massachusetts in state court on behalf of seven couples seeking the right to marry....
Mar 25, 20212 min readMarch 25, 2010: Gay-rights operatives revise national marriage strategy ON THIS DAY IN 2010… Officials from the nation’s leading gay-rights organizations met outside Boston to revise and update the movement’s...
Mar 3, 20212 min readMarch 3, 2009: Mary Bonauto files DOMA suitON THIS DAY IN 2009... New England attorney Mary Bonauto filed the first lawsuit in which legally married couples challenged the Defense...
Feb 3, 20212 min readFebruary 3, 2004: Massachusetts court dismisses civil-union compromiseOn November 17, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that excluding same-sex couples from “civil marriage” violated...