Arizona

Relationship Recognition Information

Statewide Relationship Recognition
no Licenses marriages for same-sex couples.
no Honors marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions.
no Relationship recognition for same-sex couples: None.

  • 1996 Arizona prohibits marriage between same-sex couples by statute, and prohibits recognition of lawfully married same-sex couples from other states or jurisdictions. See Arizona Revised Statutes § 25-101.

Employment Information

Statewide Employment Protections
no Private employment protections based on sexual orientation.
no Private employment protections based on gender identity.
no Public (state) employment protections based on sexual orientation.
- Public (state) employment protections based on gender identity.

  • 2003 Governor Janet Napolitano issues an executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation for state employees, see Executive Order 2003-22. However, Arizona does not have a state-wide law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, see Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 41-1463.

Parenting Information

Statewide Parenting Laws
Who May Adopt Any adult. ARS § 8-103.
Second Parent Adoptions Not yet permitted.
Notes Consideration of bisexuality (among many other factors) approved in denial of preadoption certification in In re Appeal in Pima County Juvenile Action B-10489, 727 P.2d 830 (App. 1986).

Cases

Gwin v. Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System
Case arguing against state Medicaid program that denied HIV-positive woman a life-saving organ transplant.

In re Brenda Gwin
Administrative appeal of state Medicaid program’s refusal to cover cost of life-saving organ transplant because recipient the was a woman living with HIV

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