States

In the Roadmap to Victory , we explained how we’ll win the freedom to marry nationwide: build a majority for marriage, win more states, and promote federal action. You can help advance each of these critical efforts by supporting our state partners and taking action at the state and local levels.

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Five states (Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire) plus the District of Columbia have the freedom to marry for gay couples, and there are three more states (Maryland, Rhode Island and New York) that officially pledge non-discrimination against marriages between same-sex couples from other states.


Various states now offer broad protections short of marriage, including civil union in New Jersey, and broad domestic partnership in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, and California. Smaller packages of protections for same-sex couples are available in Hawaii, Maryland, Maine, Colorado, and Wisconsin.


With these advances, nearly 14% of the US population lives in a state that either has the freedom to marry for gay couples or honors out-of-state marriages of gay couples. 25% live in a state with either marriage or a broad legal status such as civil union/partnership. 37% of the US population (over 100 million Americans) live in a state which provides some form of protections for gay couples.


Learn about International Progress Toward the Freedom to Marry