Originally Posted by VinylBoy

Those are two major ones, besides many other issues regarding the workplace, personal safety, the right to adopt children, to even having the right to intimacy behind closed doors.

Sometimes, big issues lead to many other bigger ones. For instance... A gay man can live with his life partner for years in the same household. They can't marry so they're not eligible to claim each other as a spouse when they file for taxes, although a woman who isn't married to a man can do it under the same circumstances. That also applies to life insurance and health coverage. But the worst of it happens if one of them dies. He writes a will leaving all of his possessions to his lover. But because he's a homosexual, that legal document could become null and void by the state. Which means all of his deceased lover's personal things become property of the state. If he owned a home, it would go to the state. Any money in any savings accounts? To the state. Meanwhile, a dying man can scribble a will on a napkin right before he dies to leave all of his belongings to his pet poodle and the state would recognize that.

How fair is that?