Everybody knew the U.S. Supreme Court would be ruling on the gay-marriage question sometime in late June.
However, nobody was sure what the decision would be—and nobody was sure when it would be announced.
Of course, now we all know: On Friday, June 26, in a narrow 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional for states to prohibit same-sex couples from marrying. The ruling means that, effectively, same-sex marriage is now legal in 50 states.
How fitting it was that the ruling was announced on June 26—the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court, in 2013, struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, and legalized (for the second time) same-sex marriage in California by effectively throwing out Proposition 8. It’s also the same day that in 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that sodomy laws were unconstitutional.
On Friday night, hundreds of people showed up at Francis Stevens Park in downtown Palm Springs for a rally that had been planned for weeks—albeit with the date TBA—by the LGBT Center of the Desert. Below is a gallery of photos from the momentous celebration.
Photos by Tommy Hamilton/Tommy Locust photography.
