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Status of Same-Sex Relationships Nationwide

• Pending Lawsuits Seeking Marriage Equality for Same-Sex Couples
• State(s) with Marriage Equality
• States that Give Many or Most of the Benefits And Responsibilities of Marriage but with a Discriminatory Label
• States that Give Limited Benefits with Statewide Domestic Partnership Laws
• States that Give Limited Domestic Partnership Benefits to State Employees (not including states listed in prior categories that provide broader protections.)
• State(s) that Have Proactively Respected Out-of-State-Marriages of Same-Sex Couples
• States with Constitutional Amendments Empowering Legislature to Ban Marriage
• States with Constitutional Amendments Banning Marriage
• States that Otherwise Bar Marriage (by statute or otherwise)

States with laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin

States that explicitly include gender identity in non-discrimination laws

California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C.

The text of state constitutional amendments targeting same-sex relationships

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