'No final victory': Five years after same-sex marriage ruling, inroads have been made. But uncertainty looms
A Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015 brought hope for many couples, a sentiment of equality, and - perhaps above all else - an expectation for a better tomorrow.
Black LGBTQ people are disproportionately concentrated in the states where they face racial discrimination and where it is"legally permissible to discriminate against us based on actual or perceived sexual identity, gender orientation or expression," Johns said. "Love is love," Sutton said."And here we are, even though we haven't been legally married [for the whole time], but after 18 years, we're still here, and I married my best friend.""It always has a symbolic meaning for the two of us," he said."We've now been together 18 years, and we were not married for 14 years of them, and honestly we didn't think we would ever see it happen in our lifetime.
"People made enormous sacrifices in terms of their career, their personal lives, sometimes their whole lives, so that the world would be better today than it was when I was born in 1963," he said."And, boy, is it different for LGBTQ people compared to the year I was born. But it's not different enough yet."
But with the congressional passage of the hate crimes bill in Georgia Tuesday, he feels that"we're finally moving into even more of a progressive place." The Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act to prevent discrimination against LGBTQ people in places such as public facilities, housing, and schools.
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