Same-Sex Parenting

By sarahsimpson

  • Stonewall Riot

    Violent protest against police raids of gay bars; widely regarded as beginning of LGBT civil rights movement in US

  • Washington DC ordinance

    First jurisdiction to prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation in custody battles

  • Sandy Schuster and Madeleine Isaacson

    Nation's first lesbian couple to win custody battle

  • First gay adoption

    Couple in CA becomes first known gay couple to jointly adopt

  • New Jersey adoption law

    New Jersey becomes first state to explicitly allow gay couples to jointly adopt

  • HB 7013

    Florida repeals 1977 law banning gay adoption

  • Obergefell v. Hodges

    Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage