Even in liberal California, LGBTQ advocates said their rights feel much more fragile after the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.
as San Francisco mayor, President Biden is on the cusp of signing legislation that ensures gay marriages are recognized by the federal government and in every state in the nation.
The Respect for Marriage Act is essentially an insurance policy to protect LGBTQ marriage rights if the Supreme Court ever overturned them. It was inspired by the court’s decision this summerEven though Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority that the decision to overturn Roe vs.
“I don’t think it diminishes the success of the legislation. This was huge,” Sen. Alex Padilla said in an interview. “But certainly there’s more work to do in this and other areas where the LGBTQ community continues to face discrimination.
Terra Russell-Slavin, an attorney and the chief impact officer at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, called the Respect for Marriage Act an “important victory” that will protect same-sex couples when crossing state lines.Having different marriage laws in different states — much like with abortion now — “raises all kinds of issues with access, racial justice, poverty justice, who can afford to leave the state, plus all the expensive challenges that would come with that situation,” she said.
“I was in my Los Angeles office when the word came through,” Harris wrote in her autobiography, “The Truths We Hold.” “A spontaneous celebration broke out, with whoops and applause ricocheting through the hallways. After so many years of struggle and setback, love had finally conquered all.”of two women who had won the lawsuit challenging Proposition 8: “I could feel history being made.”
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