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6/26 refers to June 26. On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court, presiding over the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, declared in a 5–4 decision that homosexual couples have the fundamental right to marry per both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and that any state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. This tag is for posts where characters celebrate that decision in the form of gay pride.

Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise tends to be popularly affiliated with the date. This is due to the fact that his experiment number (626) happens to match up with the number of this date in month-day-year format. Even though he is canonically portrayed in Disney media as heterosexual (most notably through his relationship with Experiment 624/Angel), he has become a minor gay rights icon in some circles. The fact that "Stitch Day" or "626 Day" landed on the day of the decision did not go unnoticed by Lilo & Stitch film co-director/co-writer Dean DeBlois, who is openly gay. On the day of the decision, he posted a sketch on his Twitter account of Stitch and Scrump respectively waving a rainbow flag and a flag with the logo of the Human Rights Campaign.

See also:

• The Wikipedia article on Obergefell v. Hodges

See also

• June (month)