Maryland Voters Approve Marriage Equality Law

Washington Post
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Note from GLAAD

Maryland joined Maine in becoming the first states to legalize marriage equality via popular vote.

Miriam Lazewatsky, Faith and Campaigns Fellow at GLAAD

Voters in Maryland upheld the state’s same-sex marriage law, a historic victory for the national gay-rights movement that highlights the country’s evolving definition of marriage. In brief remarks to a boisterous crowd in Baltimore, Governor Martin O’Malley, who championed the measure, described a campaign for marriage equality as a “noble battle to move Maryland forward.”