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People line up at an office to register for marriage or divorce in Shanghai on March 6, 2013.
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Pro gay marriage activists celebrate after French lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Paris.
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Frigide Barjot, leader of the movement against gay marriage, 2nd right, talks to the media as she visits mothers, who take part in a vigil to protest against French President Francois Hollande's social reform on gay marriage and adoption next to the Eiffel tower in Paris, Monday, April 22, 2013.
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French members of parliament point at unidentified protesters against same-sex marriage attempting to disrupt the final parliamentary vote in the French National Assembly to legalize gay marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt children at the French National Assembly in Paris, France on April 23, 2013.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorses same-sex marriage to the Human Rights Campaign on March 18, 2013.
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A supporters of traditional marriage passes supporters of gay marriage as the two groups demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2013.
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A supporters of traditional marriage passes supporters of gay marriage as the two groups demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2013.
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Same-sex marriage supporters rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March 27, 2013.
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Same-sex marriage supporters shout slogans in front of the US Supreme Court on March 26.
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Jane Abbott Lighty, left, and her partner Pete-e Petersen raise their right hands as they take an oath while receiving the first marriage license for a same-sex couple in King County, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012, in Seattle. Behind Lighty and Petersen are Brendon K. Taga, left, and Jesse Page.
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In this Oct. 23, 2012, photo, Louise Pardee calls fellow senior citizens from a Shoreview, Minn, phone bank to urge them to vote against a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage on Minnesota's statewide ballot next month. The phone bank was sponsored by Minnesotans United for All Families, the campaign trying to defeat the amendment.
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In this Oct. 23, 2012, photo, Louise Pardee calls fellow senior citizens from a Shoreview, Minn, phone bank to urge them to vote against a proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage on Minnesota's statewide ballot next month. The phone bank was sponsored by Minnesotans United for All Families, the campaign trying to defeat the amendment.
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In 1961, her first marriage to Robert Wagner in trouble, Natalie Wood starred with an irresistibly brash and handsome Hollywood newcomer, Warren Beatty, in Elia Kazan's romantic drama Splendor in the Grass. LIFE reported that Beatty, who had broken an engagement to actress Joan Collins, was "full of praise for young old-pro Natalie Wood. . . . He says she made his work in first film role easy." Here, a never-published portrait of the couple by LIFE's Eliot Elisofon, who captured some of the passion the stars would generate on screen as well as off.
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Revelers celebrate the passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York State outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher St, Friday, June 24, 2011, in New York. The measure passed, 33-29, following weeks of tense delays and debate.
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Revelers celebrate the passage of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York State outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher St, Friday, June 24, 2011, in New York. The measure passed, 33-29, following weeks of tense delays and debate.
Hans Pennink / AP
Supporters of same sex marriage celebrate after Senate members voted and approved same-sex marriage at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Friday, June 24, 2011.
Pat Wellenbach / AP
A proponent of gay marriage legislation cheers during a daylong public hearing on a gay marriage bill under consideration by the Maine Legislature.
Toby Talbot / AP
Gay marriage advocate Beth Robinson, center, holds back tears following the passage of a gay marriage bill in Montpelier, Vt., Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
Jim Mone / AP
Thousands filled the Minnesota State Capitol as they waited for word that the Senate had passed the gay marriage bill Monday, May 13, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The bill now goes to the governor who is expected to sign it.
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Cindy Amberger, left, and her partner, Lynne Hvidsten celebrate after the Minnesota House passed the gay marriage bill Thursday, May 9, 2013 in St. Paul, Minn. The two women have been together for 20 years.
Steven Senne / AP
Rhode Island state Sen. Donna Nesselbush, D-Pawtucket, center, reacts seconds after the state senate passed a same-sex marriage bill at the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, April 24, 2013.
Grace Kelly leaves a Hollywood studio lot for the last time before her marriage, 1956. Meanwhile, MGM, the studio behind her final movie,”High Society,” presented her with a dozen costumes she wore in the film.
Grace Kelly leaves a Hollywood studio lot for the last time before her marriage, 1956. Meanwhile, MGM, the studio behind her final movie,"High Society," presented her with a dozen costumes she wore in the film.
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Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Court in Washington on March 27, 2013.
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Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging California's same-sex marriage ban, pose in San Francisco on March 21, 2013. The couple, together for 13 years, will travel to Washington as the US Supreme Court considers their case.
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Same-sex couple celebrates receiving their marriage license in Olympia on Dec. 6, 2012.
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Young protesters hold placards on top of a statue at the start of a march against same-sex marriage at Denfert-Rochereau square in Paris, Jan. 13, 2013.
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Same-sex marriage proponent Kat McGuckin of Oaklyn, N.J., holds a gay pride flag while standing in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2012.
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A man dressed as a bird performs during an anti gay marriage demonstration in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012.
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A man dressed as a bird performs during an anti gay marriage demonstration in Paris, Tuesday, oct. 23, 2012.
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People lining up to attend the opening day of the Supreme Court on Oct. 1, 2012. The Justices are expected to have major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights this term
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People lining up to attend the opening day of the Supreme Court on Oct. 1, 2012. The Justices are expected to have major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights this term
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How can a marriage that looks this fun not last?
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Sarah Longwell, a leader in a group of young Republicans who support same-sex marriage, holds up a copy of the Tampa Tribune on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Donald Sutherland with his wife, Shirley Douglas, and their children (l-r): Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Douglas (Shirley's son from her first marriage), Rachel Sutherland, in California, 1970.
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Liz Taylor on her (first) wedding day, May 6, 1950. The marriage to Nicky Hlton would last less than one year, and by 1952 she had a new husband, British actor Michael Wilding.
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Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, whose marriage would last 50 years (until his death in 2008), share a laugh as they get dressed in their Hollywood home in 1959.
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Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles hold newborn daughter Rebecca Welles at home in Hollywood, California, in December 1944. She is the only child of their five-year marriage.
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Protesters for and against the same-sex marriage bill protest in the halls of the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., Monday, June 20, 2011.
Charlie Neibergall / AP
Cal Flynn holds a sign during a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, by gay-marriage opponents in favor of removing three state supreme court justices who joined in a unanimous ruling legalizing gay marriage
Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP
Gay-marriage supporters outside the courthouse.
Robert F. Bukaty / AP
Frank Schubert, campaign director for Stand for Marriage Maine, claims victory for a proposal to rescind the Legislature's approval of same-sex marriage, Nov. 3, 2009, in Portland, Maine
Paul Sakuma / AP
Same-sex marriage demonstrators wait in front of San Francisco City Hall for the California Supreme Court to rule on the legality of a voter-approved ban on same-sex unions
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Same-sex-marriage supporters rally on the eve of a state Supreme Court hearing on Proposition 8 on March 4, 2009, in Los Angeles
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After her arranged marriage fell apart, Zainab Salbi found a cause; helping women whose lives are torn apart by war.
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Marriage to reticent Carolyn Bessette helped foster the mystery
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Hundreds of people wait outside the parliament building in Wellington on April 17, 2013 for a place in the public gallery to see the chamber vote on a bill amending the 1955 Marriage Act to describe matrimony as a union of two people regardless of their sex, sexuality or how they choose to identify their gender.
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A demonstrator waves a flag on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, to protest France's planned legalisation of same-sex marriage, on Jan. 13, 2013 .
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Eduardo Cisneros (L) and Luke Montgomery kiss in front of a Chick-fil-A fast food restaurant in Hollywood as Christian activist Alicia Daberkow (R) reads passages from the Bible on August 3, 2012 in Hollywood, California. Gays and lesbians puckered up in protest Friday, staging "kiss-ins" outside Chick-fil-A outlets across the United States over the fast food chain's opposition to same-sex marriage.
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Fluent in Sorkinese. "I'm a registered republican", says news anchor Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). "I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage".
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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and council member Eric Garcetti arrive for a celebration with opponents of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage bill, at Los Angeles City Hall on February 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
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At the time, Kelly seemed destined to have a long career as a movie star. But in April 1955, she met Monaco's Prince Rainier at the Cannes Film Festival, and her life took a different path. Accepting his proposal of marriage, she became princess of the principality in 1956, retiring from Hollywood at just 26 years old.
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Left to right, American restauranteur Bernard Toots Shor sits and talks with Merlyn Mantle and husband Mickey Mantle at Shor's restaurant, New York, NY, June 1965. Though they seemed like the perfect couple, Mantle and his wife had a far from perfect marriage. Mantle's alcoholism would take a toll not only on him but also on his family, and Merlyn and their four sons eventually all went into rehab for various addictions.
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Carole Lombard drinks a cup of coffee and talks on the telephone while lounging on the floor of her Hollywood home in October 1939, a few months before her marriage to Clark Gable
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Two gay couples hold a ceremonial 'wedding' at a shopping plaza as they try to raise awareness of the issue of homosexual marriage, in Wuhan, in central China's Hubei province, March 8, 2011.
Mike Groll / AP
People in the Senate gallery react to the passage of gay marriage at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Friday, June 24, 2011.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
People celebrate inside of Stonewall Inn after the New York Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage in New York June 24, 2011.
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Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge smile following their marriage at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
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Their Royal Highnesses Prince William Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge make the journey by carriage procession to Buckingham Palace following their marriage at Westminster Abbey on April 29, 2011 in London, England.
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Draper (Hamm) moves on after his marriage ends
Natacha Pisarenko
Demonstrators wave a gay pride flag outside Congress in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires, Wednesday July 14, 2010
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Demonstrators in Buenos Aires wave a gay-pride flag outside Argentina's Congress building in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage
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Mildred and Richard Loving at a press conference after the Supreme Court ruled that their interracial marriage was legal in Loving v. Virginia
Thao Nguyen / AP
Angelique Naylor stands near the Texas state capital in Austin. She had a same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, but received her divorce in Texas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is appealing the decision.
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Same-sex couple Rocky Galloway, left, and Reggie Stanley celebrate after applying for a marriage license at the D.C. Superior Court in Washington
Julie Powell, author of Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
Robert Bukaty / AP
Hugh Tims of Portland, Maine, instructs canvassers who are working to support same-sex marriage
Jacquelyn Martin / AP
Ed Grandis, left, and Juan Rondon hug after a bill allowing same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C., was introduced at a city council meeting
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People wear gay-freedom flags at a protest in support of same-sex marriage in San Francisco
John B. Vasko
Signs held aloft at a New York City rally last year protesting California's ban on gay marriage.
Rich Pedroncelli / AP
California Attorney General Jerry Brown will work to void the state's gay marriage ban.
Darryl Bush / AP
John Lewis, left, puts a wedding ring on the hand of Stuart Gaffney as they exchange marriage vows at San Francisco's city hall on June 17
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Kirk Cameron stars in the surprise hit Fireproof, playing a fire captain struggling to save his marriage
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A couple rejoices after a California ruling overturns the state ban on gay marriage.
Kimberly White / Reuters
Two couples wait for California's Supreme Court to rule on a ban against gay marriage in San Francisco, May 15.
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NEW ARRIVALS, OLD VALUES: Peruvian immigrant Vinazza, at
center, opposes gay marriage and worries that the traditional Spanish family is changing for the worse
Deborah Feingold / Corbis
Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy: The First Couple of American Theater shared stage, screen and a stable marriage for 52 years
ANDREA COMAS / REUTERS
Activists in Madrid cheer the proposal to legalize gay marriage
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Mass Voices for Traditional Marriage founder Laurie Letourneau rallies in Worcester, Mass.
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Therapist David Schnarch believes making couples more attached doesn’t help a marriage—and it kills sex
AP
Wyatt Tan, left and Mark Nomadiou, both of New York City, kiss in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 27, 2013, prior to the start of a court hearing on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Elaine Thompson / AP
Gov. Chris Gregoire (center) speaks as other elected officials stand behind at an election watch party for proponents of Referendum 74, which would uphold the state's new same-sex marriage law in Seattle, WA on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012.
SUZANNE PLUNKETT--AP
Donna Hanover:
In obvious pain, she said her husband's affair with a staff
member damaged their marriage
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