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Early bans[edit]

Sources vary on the first state statutes to ban same-sex marriage and/or to define marriage as male-female.

Maryland 1973. first state statute that expressly bans same-sex marriage. Dudley Gold, Susan (2008). Loving V. Virginia: Lifting the Ban Against Interracial Marriage. Marshall Cavendish. p. 119.
Wyoming 1957 . p. 219 http://books.google.com/books?id=rlgiyFwHOIYC&pg=PA219&. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
Texas in 1973: JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bpl.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1525/sp.2004.51.4.453.pdf?acceptTC=true

I've included nothing about these in the timeline, since I'm uncertain and don't have a specific date in any of these instances. Not a priority. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 15:16, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Added a citation for Maryland with an explanation. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Arizona[edit]

This is hard to document:

January 7, 1975

Two men from Phoenix, Arizona obtain a marriage license, which the Arizona Supreme Court later invalidates.

It's mentioned in a number of places, but not footnoted. It's oddly specific (Jan 7) but vague as to when the court acted. The case name is unmentioned, but the fact that the court cited the Bible is. Urban legend or real? I'd just like to find a better source.

Rachel Kranz, Tim Cusick, Gay Rights (2005) "In 1975, a county clerk granted two men in Phoenix, Arizona a marriage license, but the Arizona Supreme Court,...citing the Bible, invalidated the marriage, and the state legislature passed a bill specifically prohibiting gay marriage." No citations. Not sure about that bill either. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 21:06, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed Map[edit]

The problem with this statement is the court outcomes have not been decided yet. The states shaded also are broad in nature, Tennessee for example was decided by a district judge not a federal one, Kentucky has in court that involves out of state marriages. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 22:46, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And a map on a timeline makes no sense in any case. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 23:07, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The person reverted said something about how the map could be "updated" but the word "victory" is pretty loaded. Seeing we already have the states striped yellow for these pending court cases (Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana not being there) I do not see how this map could be useful on either article. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 23:17, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. The caption is poor. The start date is arbitrary. It extracts one type of info (federal district court "wins") from the timeline and privileges it. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 23:27, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of entries have nothing to do with marriage[edit]

The first entries, related to the US post office holding distribution of gay magazines, have a lot to do with homosexuality and its acceptedness by the united states government(s), but nothing with marriage. I'm removing them as unrelated (or rather not related enough). Gouvernathor (talk) 04:12, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it wasn't a lot, it seems relevent content is more substantial down on. Gouvernathor (talk) 04:20, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]