Official Name: United State of America
Population: 307,000,000
Capital: Washington, D.C. - Pop. 589,000
Area: 9,826,930 sq. km. / 6,106,171 sq. miles.
Language: English, Spanish
Religion: Various, mostly Christian
Status of Homosexuality: Legal
Telephone Country Code: 1
Owing to the United States' federal system and the diversity in attitudes toward LGBT rights, the status of LGBT civil rights in the U.S. is at present a patchwork. At the federal level, there is no recognition of same-sex unions and no laws forbidding employment discrimination against LGBT persons. Some states have enacted such laws, however. State legislatures in Connecticut (2005), California (1999), Hawaii (1996), Maine (2004), New Jersey (2006), Washington (2007), New Hampshire (2007), Oregon (2007) Vermont (1999) and the District of Columbia (2001) have enacted either civil unions or more limited domestic partnership options for same-sex couples. Since 2004 marriage is open to gays in Massachusetts; Connecticut made it available in 2008. More states are debating it currently. For more, click here.
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