Same-sex marriage legalized in the US

The US Supreme Court has allowed same-sex marriages in all 50 US states and the District of Columbia. Previously, the issue of concluding gay marriages belonged to the jurisdiction of the states, now same-sex marriage has been recognized as a constitutional right.

The US Supreme Court is composed of nine justices. On June 26, five of them voted to legalize same-sex marriage.

Same-sex couples could marry in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The Supreme Court's decision means the ban on gay marriage will also be lifted in the 14 remaining states in the South and the Midwest.

The Washington Post

• Family law in the United States is governed by the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996. In particular, it stated that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, and also emphasized that each state has the right not to recognize the marriage of a same-sex couple entered into in another state or in another state. In 2013, after several lawsuits about the discriminatory nature of the law, the Supreme Court partially overturned it, including an article stating that marriage is necessarily a union of opposite sexes.
• The Obama administration advocated the legalization of same-sex marriage. In 2012, the President of the United States announced this publicly.