Tag: U.S. v. Windsor
Trump honored marriage equality anniversary by speaking at an anti-gay conference
Yesterday was the anniversary of three major LGBTQ court victories, and Donald Trump chose to “celebrate” them speaking at an anti-LGBTQ conference.
June 26th marked the fourth anniversary of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision (which ended bans on marriage equality in every state), the sixth anniversary of the U.S. v. Windsor decision (which forced the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages), and the sixteenth anniversary of the Lawrence v. Texas decision (which ended sodomy laws in the U.S.), all major...
Elizabeth Warren wants to give gay couples $57 million in tax refunds
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has a plan to pay same-sex couples back for years of discriminatory taxation.
Warren, who is running in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, re-introduced the Refund Equality Act in the Senate. The bill would allow same-sex couples to file joint amended tax returns to collect refunds from when they were married but before the federal government recognized those marriages.
In 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to recognize marriage equality. But until the 2013 U.S. v. Windsor...
