Laws for Same-Sex Couples
Here's a summary of the state laws in place before the US Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage constitutionally protected nationwide. Click "data" for details.
Map image from Wikimedia Commons.
Made by
Stephen Reader, Louise Ma, Steven Melendez, John Keefe, and Jenny Ye / WNYC. Follow us @datanews, email us here.
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Source
Human Rights Campaign and WNYC.
Notes
Map indicates laws and state court rulings in place before the US Supreme Court ruling on June 26, 2015.
For purposes of this map, "Adoption" means that the state allows two same-sex partners to adopt a child that is not biologically related to either, and both have legal rights as parents. This is more technically known as "joint adoption." It is different from "second-parent adoption," in which a person may legally adopt and become the second parent of their partner's biological child.
Updated
June 26, 2015