Recently, there have been a lot of developments on gay marriage.
In February 2012, Washington state legalized gay marriage. A few months earlier, in June 2011, after an intense fight, New York became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.
This followed a disappointment in Maryland, which had looked set to legalize gay marriage in the spring of 2011, but was unable to do after a bill that the governor had agreed to sign was killed before a vote could be taken.
In the winter of 2010, Washington, D.C. legalized same sex marriage in the nation's capital.
In 2009, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine passed legislation allowing gay marriage, However, Main's law was repealed by voters in the November election.
Gay marriage was also a big issue in California, where it was legal for six months in 2008, until the state stripped same sex couples of that newly won right after voters passed something called Proposition 8. Prop 8 was repealed in 2010 and declared unconstitutional in 2012, but no same sex marriages have been performed there since it passed, and same sex marriage is currently in limbo in that state.
In the midst of this, Connecticut legalized same sex marriage in 2008, and a number of other states passed laws, some which banned gay marriage, and others that offered civil union protections for gay couples.
Though each of these fights has been important, New York's passage of gay marriage has been seen as a real turning point on the issue since New York is the third most populous state and the bill was passed by elected officials including some Republican Senators.
With all the talk of gay marriage, it is little wonder that GLBT teens have a lot of thoughts on the topic. Here's what some of them have to say.
