For more than a decade, the battle over same-sex marriage and other rights for gay couples has been hard fought in U.S. courts and legislatures and at the ballot box. Use this map to view milestones in the fight and how state laws have changed since 2000. On June 26, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and declared that same-sex couples who are legally married deserve the same rights under federal law as all other married couples.
Credits: Megan Garvey, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Rong-Gong Lin II, Brady MacDonald, Mark McGonigle, Maloy Moore, Anthony Pesce, Ken Schwencke, James Wagner