TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

THE DAILY SHOW - 6/27/2013, Comedy Central

The previous day, the US Supreme Court had struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and required the federal government to recognize states' same-sex marriages. Now, guest host John Oliver looks at prominent Republicans' anger over the ruling. This is a clip from a longer segment.

Little has changed since then: The Republican party has continued to condemn this ruling (in United States v. Windsor) and to blast a later SCOTUS ruling that also favored marriage equality (in Obergefell v. Hodges). The party's most recent presidential-year platform demanded the appointment of judges who would roll back our basic rights, and some current Supreme Court justices have indicated an eagerness to do so.

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TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

THE DAILY SHOW - 6/26/2013, Comedy Central

The US Supreme Court's first marriage equality ruling happened today in 2013.

Here's how John Oliver and Samantha Bee covered it for THE DAILY SHOW, a comedy series that managed to contextualize it with other news of the week (notably the SCOTUS ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act) in ways that some "real" news shows missed.

https://youtu.be/sjoLAAsiTTI

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