LOS ANGELES - On June 26, 2015, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision guaranteed U.S. citizens the right to marry their partner, regardless of their sex.
The decision was the culmination of many years of legal battles, and a victorious moment for advocates of marriage equality who had struggled for years against discrimination under the law.Litigation began over the issue of marriage equality in the late 20th century with Baehr v.
Lewin (1993), in which the Hawaii Supreme Court held that the failure of a clerk to issue marriage licenses to a same-sex couple was a form of sex discrimination.As the Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal and other public interest organizations mounted campaigns advocating for same-sex marriage, public attitudes.