What is LGBT rights in the United States?
[[Image:USA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender flag.svg|thumb|LGBT American flag]] [[Image:LGBT flag map of the United States of America.svg|thumb|LGBT map of America.]] '''Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights in the United States''' have changed over time, and different states have different rules about them. [[Sex|Sexual acts]] between adults (depending on the [[age of consent]] in each state. This varies from age 16 to 21), and [[adolescent]]s of an age close to an [[adult]], of the same sex have been legal in the [[United States|U.S.]] since 2003. Family, marriage, and anti-[[discrimination]] laws are different in every state. On June 26, 2015, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] said that states could not have laws against [[same-sex marriage]]. This decision is called ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]''. Before ''Obergefell v. Hodges'', same-sex marriage was legal in 36 states and in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=SCOTUSblog>{{cite web|last1=Denniston|first1=Lyle|title=Opinion Analysis: Marriage Now Open to Same-Sex Couples|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/06/opinion-analysis-marriage-now-open-to-same-sex-couples/|website=SCOTUSblog|date=June 26, 2015|accessdate=December 16, 2018}}</ref> Twenty-one states plus Washington, D.C. have made discrimination because of [[sexual orientation]] illegal. Sixteen states plus Washington, D.C. have made discrimination because of [[gender identity]] or expression illegal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hrc.org/issues/4844.htm |title=Employment Non-Discrimination Laws on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity |publisher=Hrc.org |accessdate=2011-04-26 |archive-date=2008-10-24 |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20081024021510/http://www.hrc.org/issues/4844.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Hate crime]]s because of [[sexual orientation]] or [[gender identity]] can also be [[Punishment|punished]] under [[Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]] of 2009. [[Human Rights Campaign]] is the biggest LGBT-rights group in the