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Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Today, you'll get the answer.

This week's question is: What U.S. Supreme Court case decision made marriage equality the law of the land?

This week's answer is: Obergefell v. Hodges. It was the ruling that established marriage equality nationwide. was the ruling that established marriage equality nationwide. Same-sex couples had been suing to strike down state marriage bans around the country, and they won at federal district courts in several states, including in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, the states covered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. However, the Sixth Circuit reversed that ruling, and the couples appealed to the Supreme Court. The named plaintiff was James Obergefell, an Ohio man who married his dying partner, John Arthur, in Maryland in 2013 because their home state didn’t allow same-sex couples to marry — and then Ohio didn’t recognize their marriage and wouldn’t list Obergefell as the surviving spouse on Arthur’s death certificate.