Equal Rights to Gay

Since 1969 gays, transvestites and lesbians in New York rise up against the repression of police raids on the Stonewall uprising called the organized gay community managed, internationally important rights, one of its major claims recognition marriage between same sex. In North America, gay marriage is legalized in the Federal District of Mexico and in six jurisdictions within America: the Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Washington DC. Incidentally this legislation is far from being accepted nationally as many states passed amendments to their constitutions prohibiting the recognition of rights for same-sex couples. The most controversial is that of California, where gay marriage was legal for some months in 2008 by a resolution of the State Supreme Court, until Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promoted an amendment which restricted marriage as the unions of only a man and a woman. Californians, in a plebiscite, approved the objection, so that the joints were held in that period in legal limbo.

Legal partial victory for the proponents of gay marriage in the United States: A federal appeals court in New York on Thursday declared unconstitutional a law that defines marriage as a union between man and woman.

The "Defense of Marriage Act" (the "Law for the Defense of Marriage") of 1996 is contrary to the prohibition of discrimination. In May, a federal appeals court had already ruled similarly in Boston. The last word, however, should lie with the Supreme Court of the United States.

The New York judge complained that the law homosexual couples not supplied stand the same rights as heterosexual married couples. The plaintiff was a widowed lesbian woman who had been denied after the death of their spouse will receive a discount from the inheritance tax. "I feel happy," the 82-year-old Edith Windsor said after the verdict said CNN.

Gay rights are a highly contentious issue

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