• Civil marriage equality in effect at the state level since 2014. (Same-sex couples may legally marry.)
• Purely FYI: 16 October 2014, Some chapels refusing to marry same-sex couples - KLAS TV Channel 8 News Now. Nevada folks, please keep us posted on this by emailing [email protected].

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Nevada has provided domestic partnerships since October 2009, when the state legislature enacted legislation over Governor Jim Gibbons's veto. The state maintains a domestic partnership registry that provides same-sex couples with broad rights similar to those of married couples, while still relegating them to a second-class status. NV allows opposite-sex couples to establish domestic partnerships as well.
• Constitutional ban against marriage equality since 2002, per Nevada Question No. 2, was ruled unconstitutional by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on 7 October 2014.
• Prior too marriage, broad domestic partnerships were available to both same-sex and heterosexual couples.
• On 7 October 2014, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Nevada ban on marriage equality was unconstitutional.
• Nevada legalized marriage equality on 9 October 2014.