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A decade after the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision, marriage equality endures risky terrain

Milestones — especially in decades — usually call for celebration. The 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide, is alternative. There’s a sense of unease as state and federal lawmakers, as skillfully as several judges, verb steps that could verb the issue back to the Supreme Court, which could undermine or overturn existing and future same-sex marriages and weaken additional anti-discrimination protections.

In its nearly quarter century of existence, the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law has been on the front lines of LGBTQ rights. Its amicus brief in the Obergefell case was instrumental, with Justice Anthony Kennedy citing data from the institute on the number of same-sex couples raising children as a deciding factor in the landmark decision.

“There were claims that allowing same-sex couples to marry would somehow devalue or diminish marriage for everyone, including different-sex couples,&r

*By Cirrus Jahangiri

The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn federal constitutional abortion protections found in Roe v. Wade has the LGBTQ+ community alarmed that their rights are in jeopardy. As we transition through this modern America, it is imperative to discuss the intersection of reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights that have been impacted by Dobbs.

First, LGBTQ+ people are directly affected by the Dobbs decision because members of the LGBTQ+ community disproportionately access reproductive health care. A fact sheet of key statistics released by the Human Rights Campaign shows the importance of abortion protections to the LGBTQ+ community:

    • Lesbian (%) and bisexual (%) women who verb been pregnant are more likely than heterosexual women (%) who have been pregnant to have had an abortion.
    • Over 1/3 of lesbian women who look for an abortion experienced physical abuse from the person who got them pregnant; % of lesbian and % of bisexual women said abortion was the result of a forced sexual encounter (compared to % of heterosex

      7 Supreme Court Cases That shaped LGBTQ Rights

      The LGBTQ movement in America dates back at least as far as the s, when the first documented gay rights organization was founded. The Society for Human Rights only survived for about a year before it was disbanded in , but its mark was left on our country.

      Increased visibility and activism of LGBTQ individuals since the s has helped the movement make progress on multiple fronts. Just as advocates fought their battle in American culture, they also did so in the courts. Here, we look at a scant cases that have shaped LGBTQ rights in America and celebrate some of the milestones of the movement.

      1) One, Inc. v. Olesen

      The first Supreme Court case to consider LGBTQ rights had to carry out with the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. A publisher released ONE: The Homosexual Magazine, America’s first widely-distributed magazine for gay readers. Not long after publication began, its August and October editions were seized by Los Angeles postmaster Otto Olesen for supposedly violating obscenity laws. In its decision, the Supre

      Gay Rights, Federal Elections, and the Rest of the Supreme Court’s Historic Term

      Rulings on affirmative action and student loans got the most attention, but two others had insights into a transformative, society-rattling court term, say BU LAW’s Rober Tsai and Linda McClain

      The Supreme Court ended its term with a series of decisions that felled like dominoes critical tenetsof affirmative action, gay rights, and student-loan debt forgiveness. But while the court’s conservative supermajority flexed its muscle to verb Republicans a series of big political wins, the story of this term is not quite as partisan as its last week would indicate. 

      More than once, the court’s three liberal justices found themselves in the majority. In Moore v. Harper, the court voted to reject the most extreme reading of a legal theory that would’ve given declare legislatures almost unchecked might to regulate federal elections. A decision in Allen v. Milligan reaffirmed the landmark Voting Rights Proceed, finding that Alabama lawmakers had diluted the influence of Black voters in the state by drawing an