Here are all the ways marriage equality has been 'unambiguously positive' for America
The study from the RAND Corp. comes 20 years after the first legal marriages for same-sex couples took place in Massachusetts.
May 17, 2024
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey nominates former partner for high court, raises GOP ire
Healey has nominated Gabrielle Wolohojian to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
February 9, 2024
Reflecting on 20 Years of Making the Impossible Possible – and the Challenges Ahead
On the anniversary of Massachusetts's ruling on marriage equality, Mary Bonauto, the lead counsel for the same-sex couples involved in the case, writes about how LGBTQ+ history was made and how to keep going.
November 18, 2023
20 Years Ago Today Massachusetts Made History by Ruling in Favor of Marriage Equality
The ruling from the state's Supreme Judicial Court made Massachusetts the first in the nation with equal marriage rights.
November 18, 2023
Massachusetts high court considers legality of marriage ballot initiative
Today the Massachusetts supreme judicial court in Boston hears a challenge to a ballot initiative on same-sex marriage that would go before voters in 2008.
May 4, 2006
Massachusetts court to hear lawsuit over nonresident same-sex marriages
On Thursday the Massachusetts supreme judicial court will hear arguments on the denial of marriage licenses to eight out-of-state gay couples. At issue is a 1913 law that forbids out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union would not be legally recognized in their own state.
October 6, 2005
Same-sex marriage ban advances in Massachusetts
Lawmakers in Massachusetts voted on Tuesday to allow a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage to move forward.
January 2, 2007
Massachusetts governor urges legislative vote on same-sex marriage issue
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said Sunday he would ask the state's highest court to order an anti-same-sex marriage measure onto the ballot if legislators fail to vote on the matter when they reconvene in January.
November 20, 2006
Massachusetts judge approves marriage there for Rhode Island gays
A lesbian couple from Rhode Island has the right to marry in Massachusetts because laws in their home state do not expressly prohibit same-sex marriage, a judge in Boston ruled Friday.
September 29, 2006
Gov. Romney Didn't Know Gay People Had Families
While his state's high court considered the case that led to marriage equality in Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney told the plaintiff he didn't care what reason she gave her daughter as to why her moms couldn't marry.
September 12, 2012