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Watch Marriage Equality Go From Minority Issue To Majority Right In Just A Few Years<\/b>
\nOn May 17, 2004<\/a>, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to conduct same-sex<\/a> nuptials, following a decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Court the year before. The state issued hundreds of marriage licenses, couples<\/a> tied the knot and the rest of the nation waited. And waited.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2008, gay<\/a> couples<\/a> in California were briefly granted the right to get married, only to have it taken away in a voter referendum later that year. The California referendum passed just days before Connecticut became the next state to legalize same-sex<\/a> marriage. More than four years passed between the first and second states embracing marriage equality, but the movement would move much faster from that point on. In the previous two years alone, gay<\/a> marriage has advanced from a minority issue in a few, mostly blue states to a full-blown majority right in 30 states across the nation, as well as Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n

More than 60 percent of Americans now live<\/a> in states that allow same-sex<\/a> nuptials, HuffPost’s Sam Stein and Amanda Terkel reported Monday<\/a> in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision not to hear appeals from states challenging lower court rulings that had recently legalized gay<\/a> marriage. With 11 more states now beginning or set to begin allowing same-sex<\/a> marriages, check out how the equality movement has grown below.<\/p>\n

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