In Your State: New Hampshire

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Statewide Relationship Recognition
yes	Licenses marriages for same-sex couples.
yes	Honors marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions as civil unions.
yes	Relationship recognition for same-sex couples: civil-unions.

2007 New Hampshire passes a comprehensive civil unions law, effective January 1, 2008, granting many of the same rights and obligations of marriage to same-sex couples – and recognizing civil unions and same-sex marriages formed in other jurisdictions as civil unions.
2004 New Hampshire passes a law creating a commission to study all aspects of same sex civil marriage and “legal equivalents thereof” and expressly denies recognition of same-sex marriages formed in other jurisdictions.
2000 Anti-marriage bill blocked. HB 1293: Rep. Gary Torressen (R) introduced another anti-marriage bill declaring invalid the lawful marriages of same-sex couples. On March 29, the House of Representatives soundly rejected it by a vote of 128–232.
1987 New Hampshire amends its marriage laws to prohibit a man from marrying another man, and to prohibit a woman from marrying another woman.

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

Statewide Parenting Laws
Who May Adopt	Unmarried adult; married persons must generally petition together. N.H. Rev. Stat. 170-B:4
Second Parent Adoptions	Not yet permitted.
Notes	Statute banning adoption by any lesbian or gay person repealed in 1999