Maryland: Couples await midnight for state’s first same-sex marriages
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Numerous gay couples across Maryland will be celebrating the New Year with a bumper toast as they share the occasion with their marriages, the first to be conducted following a referendum to legislate for marriage equality.
A bill to legalise same-sex marriage in Maryland was passed by the state General Assembly in February 2012 and signed into law on 1 March 2012, by Governor Martin O’Malley.
However, opponents of marriage equality successfully gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on the decision.
In Baltimore, the state’s largest city, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will attend ceremonies at City Hall.
Same-sex couples celebrated the first equal marriages in the state of Maine on the 29 December.
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