10 October: U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, ruling in general Synod of the United Church of Christ v. Cooper, struck down North Carolina’s ban, citing the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bostic v. Schaefer. 6 October: The United States Supreme Court allowed appeals court docket choices hanging down similar-intercourse marriage bans in Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Utah to stand, allowing similar-intercourse couples to start marrying immediately in these 5 states and creating binding authorized precedent that has nullified bans in six other states in the Fourth, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits (Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming). 23 June: Same-sex marriage turns into authorized within the Mexican state of Michoacán, following a 27-zero vote. The bill would then face a vote within the Chamber of Deputies. Eleven May: The Italian Chamber of Deputies approves a Civil Union bill in a 372-fifty one vote, awaiting signing into legislation by the President of Italy. 20 January: The Chamber of Deputies of Chile approves legislation to create the civil union pact (pacto de unión civil or PUC), that was already accepted by the Senate.
23 January: Same-intercourse marriage turns into authorized in Alabama. 6 January: Same-sex marriage becomes authorized in Florida. 7 October: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down identical-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada. This is anticipated to quickly nullify bans in different jurisdictions lined by the Ninth Circuit: Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. Guam that defined marriage as between couples of the opposite sex, thereby allowing similar intercourse marriage to begin. 10 December: The States of Guernsey, Channel Islands, agrees in a vote of 37 to 7 to introduce similar sex marriage. 26 May: Greenland’s parliament, by a vote of 27-0, unanimously approves identical-intercourse marriage. 25 February: The Italian Senate approves a Civil Union bill in a 173-71 vote. 26 November: The Civil Partnership Bill was passed by the Cyprus House, Interior Ministry has introduced. The bill handed with 39 votes for, 12 against, while three MPs abstained. It was handed by Parliament on 26 October and received royal assent on 1 November. 22 July: Same-sex marriage turns into legal in the Isle of Man, after receiving royal assent on 19 July.
25 July: The District Court of the Miami-Dade County, Florida, dominated unconstitutional the state ban on similar-sex marriage within the case Pareto v. Ruvin. 12 November: U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel rules in Condon v. Haley that South Carolina’s ban on identical-intercourse marriage is unconstitutional. 26 June: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the United States of America because of a Supreme Court ruling. 28 July: The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found the Virginia ban on same-intercourse marriage unconstitutional within the case Bostic v. Schaefer. 8 October: United States Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued an order staying the implementation of identical-intercourse marriage in Nevada and Idaho. 4 November: U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree rules in Marie v. Moser that Kansas’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. 7 November: U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith guidelines in Lawson v. Kelly that Missouri’s ban on identical-intercourse marriage is unconstitutional, staying his order pending enchantment. 23 December: The Greek Parliament passes identical-sex civil unions legislation which legalised civil partnerships.