Connecticut

Connecticut joined Massachusetts as the next state to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage with the Connecticut Supreme Court ruling to uphold the freedom to marry in Kerrigan and Mock v. the CT Department of Public Health on October 10, 2008. The case was brought by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders on behalf of eight same-sex couples who sought to end marriage discrimination in Connecticut. In April 2009 with bipartisan support, the Conecticut legislaturevoted to reaffirm the court’s decision and realign state statues to uphold the freedom to marry, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

Status: Marriage
 
Groups Actively Working on Marriage

Love Makes a Family: Love Makes a Family (LMF) was a statewide non-profit advocacyorganization working for equal marriage rights for same-sex couples inConnecticut.  Uponcompleting its mission, it is now closed, but still offers resources onits website.

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders: New England'sleading legal rights organization dedicated to ending discriminationbased on sexual orientation, HIV status and gender identity andexpression which brought the marriage equality case before theConnecticut Supreme Court, Kerrigan & Mock v. Connecticut Department of Public Health

 

 

Blog Posts Related to Connecticut

Hey, America, stop changing the marriage equality goalposts

Marriage equality has seen more ups and downs than a soccer game, because America's right wing keeps changing the goalposts.

How the GOP is saving the freedom to marry

Joshua Green writes about several Republican appointed judges who have had roles in advancing marriage equality: "This makes the Republican pedigrees of the judges moving the freedom to marry toward legality all the more striking, particularly in how it contrasts with conservative outcries about judicial activism."

Voice for Equality: Scott Stringer

Scott Stringer is a New York Democratic politician and the current Borough President of Manhattan. In 2005, he entered the race to succeed C. Virginia Fields as Manhattan Borough President. On September 13, 2005, he won the Democratic primary against 9 other candidates and was later elected in the November general election. He took office as Borough President on January 1, 2006.

In July of 2010, Mr. Stringer and his fiancée, Elyse Buxbaum, announced they would wed in Connecticut in what they described as a protest of New York’s failure to legalize the freedom to marry.

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Resources Related to Connecticut

How to Get Married in Connecticut

General information for same-sex couples getting married in Connecticut.

Results from Ballot Measures in AZ, AR, CA, CT and FL

Find results for states with anti-gay ballot measures in the 2008 election.

Connecticut Ends Gay Couples’ Exclusion from Marriage

Copy of the decision in Kerrigan and Mock v. the CT Department of Public Health

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