How Florida’s gay-marriage advocates won the day — and in just 18 months | The Miami Herald

Just as the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act in June 2013 and ordered the federal government to recognize legally married same-sex couples, LGBT activists in Florida ramped up efforts to undo the state’s 2008 constitutional gay-marriage ban. Eighteen months later, it appears undone and same-sex couples are expected to marry, as early as Monday.