Same-sex marriage in Texas

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015. On February 26, 2014, Judge Orlando Luis Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found that Texas' ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional in De Leon v. Perry. On April 22, 2014, a state court came to the same conclusion. Both cases were appealed. The district court's decision was appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, but before that court could issue a ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all same-sex marriage bans in the United States in Obergefell on June 26, 2015. Within a few months of the court ruling, all counties had started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, except for Irion County, which announced in 2020 that it would begin issuing licenses to same-sex couples, making it the last county in the United States to comply with the ruling.

Previously, Texas had banned same-sex marriage both by statute since 1973 and in its State Constitution since 2005. Despite opposition from high-profile Republican politicians, polling suggests that a majority of Texans support the legal recognition of same-sex marriage, with a 2021 Public Religion Research Institute poll showing that 62% of respondents supported same-sex marriage.

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