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The Best Gay Metropolis to Live in Nevada

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The runner-up for the most affordable, LGBTQ+ approachable city in Nevada is Las Vegas! Why? It’s one of four cities in Nevada to get 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Municipal Equality Index. Three of the cities are in the Las Vegas metro area. Home values average $399,000 per property, and rents average $1,793 monthly for a 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom apartment.  The value of living is 110.5%. In proof, all cities we analyzed in Nevada are over 100% for the amount of living. The average income is $66,000 yearly, and the median income is $49,000 annually. From our personal experience of living in Las Vegas, we can divide that a lot of development is taking place on the north side, north Vegas. Unfortunately, this is an area that does very poor on H

Nevada becomes first state to identify gay marriage in state constitution

Nevada voters overturned an 18-year-old forbid on same-sex marriage, making the state the first to enshrine gay couples’ right to bond in its constitution.

Question 2 on Nevada ballots asked voters whether they support an amendment knowing marriage “as between couples regardless of gender.”

The “Marriage Regardless of Gender Amendment” also asked if religious organizations and clergy retained the right “to refuse to solemnize a marriage.”

The results were 62 percent in favor and 38 percent against, according to the Nevada secretary of articulate, with more than three-fourths of the votes counted.

“It feels great that we let the voters decide,” Equality Nevada President Chris Davin told NBC News. “The people said this, not judges or lawmakers. This was guide democracy — it’s how everything should be.”

It was a voter referendum in 2002 that originally changed the Nevada Constitution to define marriage as between “a male and female person.”

A local partnership law was passed by the Legislature in 2009, overriding a veto by then-Gov. Jim Gibbons.

Same-sex marriage wasn’t recognized in the state until

Nevada Same-Sex Marriage & Cohabitation Laws

Nevada recognizes both marriage and domestic partnerships between homosexual couples. In general, a domestic partnership carries the same rights and legal obligations as marriage does.

However, some rights – particularly federal tax advantages – are available only to married couples. In addition, local partners may not be entitled to medical and other benefits when their partner works for the federal government.

Same-sex couples who do not wish to marry or register as domestic partners can enter a cohabitation agreement in Nevada. This lets them consent on many – but not all – of the rights available to married couples and household partners.

The following chart applications a brief summary of the rights available to same-sex couples in Nevada:

MarriageDomestic PartnersCohab. agmt.
Community propertyXXX
Financial sustain (alimony)XXX
Inherit w/o willXX
Hospital visitationXXX
Medical decisionsXXX
Sue for wrongful deathX X (Nevada law only)
Right not to testifyX X (Nevada commandment only)
Soc. Sec. spousal ben

On October 30, 1861, the Legislative Assembly of the Region of Nevada passed a law which read, "The infamous crime against character, either with guy or beast, shall subject the offender to be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a phrase not less than five years, and which may expand to life." For more than a hundred years what became known as Nevada Revised Statute 201.190—Nevada's sodomy law—was used to terrify, blackmail, and persecute gay people. As a result, the queer history of Nevada until the last half of the 20th century is a history of unjust criminal prosecution.

Institutionalized repression isolated Nevada’s queer population from the linger of the region where there were stirrings of society through such organizations as the Mattachine Society and the Daughters of Bilitis, and through such shared events as the Stonewall Riots in June 1969.

Stonewall, however, was ignored by Nevada’s media. Gay life in the Silver Express was restricted to bars, tea rooms, and private parties. Police at both ends of the state routinely conducted sting operations to entrap gay people, while the legislature tweaked NRS 201.190 to broaden its