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Same-Sex Marriage in Connecticut
As of June 26, 2015 the Supreme Court issued a decision that same-sex couples can marry in all 50 states
The tracking is an excerpted history from GLAD’s Answers for the LGBTQ Community: (https://www.glad.org/issues/marriage-connecticut/)
Requirements for Marriage in Connecticut
Any couple regardless of gender can unite in Connecticut, provided they meet the state’s marriage requirements. Those requirements include:
- must be 18 or older;
- not be married or in a civil union with a different person (you can marry the equal person with whom you already have a civil union);
- not be closely akin by blood or marriage; and
- have approval if under conservatorship.
For more on “Connecticut Laws About Marriage”, stop by the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries webpage, https://www.jud.ct.gov/lawlib/law/marriage.htm
Where to get a Marriage License
Each person wishing to get married must move to a town hall and fill out a marriage application (an application can also be downloaded from the internet and filled out at the town hall). If a person is a Connecticut resident, that person must go to the town hall where he/she
Project partners:
Central Connecticut Express University HIST 403 class, “Exploring GLBTQ Archives”
Professor William J. Mann
Anna Fossi
Eve Galanis
Ria Amerson
Joshua Bouchard
Kacie Brennan
Lauren Cavaliero
Sara Conlon
Chelsea DiNeno
Michelle Gil
Jayme Hebert
Elizabeth Klopp
Daniel MacNeil
Kevin Milewski
Carrie Mott
Nicholas Palomba
Katherine Samuels
Victoria Troche
Christina Volpe
Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Ilene Frank, Chief Curator/Chief Operating Officer
Andrea Rapacz, Director of Exhibitions & Collections
Ben Gammell, Exhibit Developer
With particular thanks to Richard Nelson, whose timeline of Connecticut LGBTQ history provided a basis for the students’ research.
The Connecticut Museum of Society and History is grateful to this project’s donors.
Special thanks to our project sponsors below:
Duff Ashmead & Eric Ort
Louis Lista & Paul DeVeau
Dan Sullivan & Rob Biddleman
Landmark gay marriage case has Connecticut ties, impact
Washington — Gay rights advocate Mary L. Bonauto made history in Connecticut when she championed a lawsuit that legalized gay marriage in the state. She is now in position to make it on the national stage when the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a landmark gay marriage case.
The stakes are high as Bonauto awaits the court’s decision on a case she argued in April.
The ruling, which could come as early as Thursday, will decide the fate of gay marriage in many states in the nation and could, in one observer’s words, “nationalize same-sex marriage.”
It could also possess an indirect impact on married, queer Connecticut couples. In 2008, Bonuato helped fellow attorney Ben Klein win a 4-3 decision at the Connecticut Supreme Court that determined that the state’s recognition of same-sex civil unions, a marriage-like legal arrangement that Connecticut offered to gay couples since 2005, was not an acceptable alternative to marriage.
The decision in Kerrigan & Mock v. Connecticut Dept. of Public Health established same-sex marriages in Connecticut.
Bonauto, the civil rights project director
Vote caps decade-long Conn. gay marriage fight
A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and sapphic couples to tie the knot.
"It feels so good. It really does perceive like the guide is closing," said Anne Stanback, president of Love Makes a Family, a gay-rights group that has led the fight for lgbtq+ marriage in the state.
A spokesman for Gov. M. Jodi Rell said she will sign the bill, which passed 28-7 in the Senate and 100-44 in the Dwelling of Representatives after time Wednesday, into rule. While Rell, a Republican, signed the state's 2005 civil unions law, she has said she believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman.
The bill comes six months after the Articulate Supreme Court governed 4-3 that homosexual couples have the right to wed in Connecticut, rather than accept the civil union rule designed to donate them the alike rights as married couples.
It redefines marriage in Connecticut as the legal union of two people. State law previously defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Fourth mention to allow queer marriage
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