National Freedom to Marry Day is a non-official United States holiday held annually on February 12 to promote same-sex marriage. The holiday was founded in 1999 by Lambda Legal, a gay rights advocacy law firm based out of Washington, DC.

The most notable National Freedom to Marry Day was February 12, 2004 when San Francisco, California mayor Gavin Newsom ordered his county clerk to revise marriage licenses to allow gay and lesbian couples to legally wed.

External link

• Lamda Legal's NFMD web page