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Legalized same-sex marriage turns 10 after landmark Supreme Court decision reshaped American law and culture

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The Supreme Court 10 years ago voted to extend the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, a landmark 5-4 ruling that changed the course of U.S. history — touching off profound changes in public opinion, as well as seismic cultural shifts. 

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«No longer may this liberty be denied,» Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. «The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry.»

The June 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges ensured same-sex couples were guaranteed the same protections and benefits as their heterosexual peers. 

However, the ruling is not without its detractors. In fact, 10 years after the high court’s decision, recent polling shows that public opinion on same-sex marriage is more divided than ever. 

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Plaintiffs in the Obergefell v. Hodges case are seen outside the Supreme Court in 2015. Ten years later, in 2025, there is still widespread public support for the Supreme Court ruling. (Ken Cedeno/ Corbis via Getty Images)

The 10-year anniversary of Obergefell also comes at a tense political moment. The White House and Congress are governed, as of January 2025, by a new conservative majority — sidelining progressives and emboldening at least some Republican lawmakers who have signaled interest in challenging the Supreme Court’s landmark decision. 

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It also comes as the conservative-majority Supreme Court has taken up important cases involving LGBTQ+ eduction, gender-related care and more. 

Ten years after the court’s landmark decision, here is a look at where things stand. 

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The nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage has made such unions more visible, increasing the number of Americans with personal connections to couples directly affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling.

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In fact, the number of married, same-sex couples in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2015, according to data from the Williams Institute at UCLA’s College of Law.

In the decade since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Obergefell, public support for same-sex marriage has continued to climb, driven in large part by support from Democrat and Independent voters, though voters across all parties and demographics have seen an uptick, according to data from Gallup surveys over the past 10 years.

Nearly 7 in 10 U.S. voters, or 68% of Americans, said this year that they support same-sex marriage, according to a Gallup poll conducted last month — an 8% increase compared to the 60% majority who said the same in 2015.

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Buoyed by popular support, then-President Joe Biden codified same-sex marriage protections at the federal level in 2022 by signing the Respect for Marriage Act, which required the federal government to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed in states where they are legal.

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Hundreds participate in the annual DC Pride Parade on June 8, 2024. (Astrid Riecken/Washington Post via Getty)

Hundreds participate in the annual DC Pride Parade on June 8, 2024. (Astrid Riecken/Washington Post via Getty)

While the law stops short of ordering states or territories to marry same-sex couples, it does require them to recognize the marriages as legitimate, so long as they are valid in the state which they were performed. 

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However, that is not to say these actions have been without detractors. 

Increasing opposition at state and federal level

Support for same-sex marriage has dropped among Republicans in recent years, with the number of registered Republican voters who said they support same-sex marriage dropping from a 55% majority in 2021 to just 41% in 2025, according to data compiled by Gallup. 

It is unclear what exactly prompted the shift. However, at least some Republican lawmakers in state legislatures across the country have urged the high court, via symbolic resolutions, to revisit Obergefell and change the nationwide right to same-sex marriage.

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In fact, state legislatures in 2024 introduced more than 500 «anti-LBGT» bills, according to the ACLU. Though few of those bills were passed, supporters of same-sex marriage fear that backlash is growing to LGBTQ+ protections — and suggesting it could be an indicator of future opposition — preempting a legal challenge to Obergefell that could, eventually, make its way back to the Supreme Court.

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Some on the left have called for an end to trans-inclusion efforts. (Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Court precedent, executive actions 

Recent Supreme Court decisions have yielded more speculation as to how a conservative-majority court might rule on same-sex marriage, should they decide to take up any cases challenging Obergefell. 

Justices sent shock waves through the nation in 2022 when they overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The decision also sparked renewed fears that the high court could revisit same-sex marriage protections.

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Justice Clarence Thomas, for his part, explicitly suggested the court should do so in his concurring majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that overturned Roe, writing that the court has «a duty to ‘correct the error’ established» in Obergefell and other similar cases. 

«In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents … [including] Obergefell,» he added. 

President Donald Trump has declined, in large part, to weigh in publicly on the matter.

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He has, however, taken action to reverse course on Biden-era actions, including signing an executive order on his first day in office declaring that the U.S. will recognize only «two sexes,» male and female, according to a copy of the text.  

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House. Trump signed an order on his first day in office declaring that the U.S. will recognize only «two sexes,» male and female, raising concerns from LGBTQ+ advocates. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Next steps 

Experts told Fox News Digital they would not be surprised to see Republican-led challenges to Obergefell, with some pointing in particular the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month in United States v. Skrmetti another pivotal case in which justices on the high court voted 6-3 to uphold a Tennessee law banning certain medical care, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, to transgender adolescents in the state.

Skrmetti was one of the most closely watched cases of the Supreme Court’s term, and advocates for LGBTQ+ organizations such as the ACLU and Lamda Legal, which argued the case in December, have cited fears that the decision could serve as a legal pretext for future cases involving LGBTQ+ protections — including whether sexual orientation qualifies as a «protected class» on par with race or national origin.

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«I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody tried to unwind marriage equality,» Ethan J. Leib, a professor at Fordham Law, told Fox News Digital in an interview following the court’s decision last week. 

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Activists for and against trans rights protest outside the Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in the United States v. Skrmetti case. The court ruled 6-3 on June 18, 2025 to uphold the Tennessee law in question, in a blow to transgender activists. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

He noted that the justices who joined John Roberts in the majority opinion — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — «seemed like they did not want to decide whether trans people are a quasi-suspect classification.»

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«My guess is that, if they get another case that’s really about transgender adults,» they might be willing to see the «technical differences» between them — which he said could carve out room for the justices to distinguish themselves from other conservatives on the court. 

He also noted Roberts seemingly went to great lengths to determine what counts as a sex classification, which could ultimately make it «much harder» for them to undo Obergefell in the near-term.

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At the end of the day, Leib said, «I wouldn’t be surprised if someone tried to unwind marriage equality» and the protections provided under federal law.

«I think I’d be surprised if there were five votes for it,» he said of securing the majority votes to overturn Obergefell. «But you know, but I could, I could see a way of counting to five.» 

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Las fábricas de EE. UU. enfrentan un reto: encontrar miles de empleados

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La promesa del presidente Donald Trump de reactivar la industria manufacturera estadounidense se está chocando con el obstinado obstáculo de la realidad demográfica.

La reserva de obreros que pueden y quieren realizar tareas en una fábrica estadounidense está disminuyendo. A medida que los baby boomers se jubilan, pocos jóvenes se han ofrecido para ocupar su lugar.

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Según la Oficina de Estadísticas Laborales, actualmente hay alrededor de 400.000 empleos sin cubrir en el sector manufacturero, un déficit que seguramente aumentará si las empresas se ven obligadas a recurrir menos a la fabricación en el extranjero y a construir más fábricas en Estados Unidos, señalan los expertos.

Desde 2017, los fabricantes estadounidenses han hablado constantemente de la dificultad para atraer y retener una fuerza laboral de calidad como uno de sus “principales desafíos”, dijo Victoria Bloom, economista jefe de la Asociación Nacional de Fabricantes, que elabora una encuesta trimestral. Esto apenas recientemente descendió en la lista de desafíos, al ser rebasado por la incertidumbre relacionada con el comercio por los aranceles del gobierno de Trump y por el aumento de los costos de las materias primas, explicó Bloom.

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Sin embargo, la escasez de obreros cualificados sigue siendo un problema a largo plazo, según Ron Hetrick, economista de Lightcast, empresa que proporciona datos laborales a universidades e industrias.

Nos pasamos tres generaciones diciéndole a todo el mundo que el que no iba a la universidad era un perdedor”, dijo. “Ahora estamos pagando el precio. Aún necesitamos que la gente use las manos”.

Los retos de contratación que enfrentan las fábricas estadounidenses son complejos.

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Las medidas del presidente Trump contra la migración, que incluyen intentos de revocar las protecciones contra la deportación para los inmigrantes procedentes de países con problemas, podrían eliminar a trabajadores que podrían haber ocupado esos puestos de trabajo.

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A muchos estadounidenses no les interesa trabajar en fábricas porque a menudo no pagan lo suficiente como para atraer a trabajadores que ya tienen empleos en el sector servicios, los cuales pueden ofrecer horarios más flexibles o entornos laborales más cómodos.

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Para algunas empresas, seguir siendo competitivas a nivel mundial implica el uso de equipos sofisticados que requieren que los empleados tengan una amplia formación y estén familiarizados con ciertos programas informáticos. Y los empresarios no pueden limitarse a contratar a gente recién egresada de la preparatoria sin ofrecerles programas de formación especializados para que se pongan al día. Eso no ocurría en el apogeo de la fabricación estadounidense.

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Atraer a jóvenes motivados a carreras de fabricación también es un reto cuando los orientadores de las escuelas siguen siendo juzgados por la cantidad de estudiantes que van a la universidad.

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Por otra parte, los egresados de universidades no suelen tener las aptitudes adecuadas para tener éxito en una fábrica.

El país está inundado de egresados universitarios que no encuentran trabajos acordes con su formación, afirmó Hetrick, y no hay suficientes obreros cualificados para cubrir los puestos que existen actualmente, por no hablar de los puestos que se crearán si se construyen más fábricas en Estados Unidos.

The Business Roundtable, un grupo de presión cuyos miembros son directores ejecutivos de empresas, ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa en la que los ejecutivos colaboran en estrategias para atraer y formar a una nueva generación de trabajadores en oficios cualificados. En un acto llevado a cabo la semana pasada en Washington, los ejecutivos compartieron sus frustraciones sobre lo difícil que era encontrar personal cualificado e intercambiaron consejos en el escenario sobre cómo superar la brecha.

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Sus ideas incluían revisar las descripciones de los puestos de trabajo existentes en las empresas para dar prioridad a la experiencia relevante sobre los títulos universitarios y reclutar a estudiantes de preparatoria desde segundo año para brindarles experiencias que despierten su interés en carreras en el sector manufacturero.

“Actualmente, por cada 20 ofertas de empleo que tenemos, hay un candidato cualificado”, dijo David Gitlin, presidente y director ejecutivo de Carrier Global, que fabrica aires acondicionados y hornos y da mantenimiento a equipos de calefacción y refrigeración.

Con el auge de la inteligencia artificial, dijo Gitlin, se ha disparado la demanda de técnicos para dar mantenimiento a centros de datos, que se construyen con sistemas de refrigeración llamados enfriadores. Calculó que cada centro de datos necesitaría cuatro técnicos para dar mantenimiento a un solo enfriador.

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“Hoy tenemos 425.000 técnicos”, dijo, refiriéndose a toda la industria de equipos de calefacción y aires acondicionados. “Vamos a necesitar contratar a otros cuatrocientos o quinientos mil en los próximos 10 años”. Pero la cantidad de jóvenes que acuden a escuelas vocacionales y colegios comunitarios, añadió, está disminuyendo, no creciendo.

En el evento de The Business Roundtable, los ejecutivos elogiaron los esfuerzos de Trump por reactivar la base industrial del país. Sin embargo, algunos ejecutivos reconocieron que las políticas migratorias del presidente representan un desafío para cualquier intento de llenar las fábricas que él se ha comprometido a reactivar.

Peter Davoren, presidente y director ejecutivo de Turner Construction Company, afirmó que le gustaría ver “un camino claro hacia la ciudadanía” para los inmigrantes del sector de la construcción y la industria alimentaria.

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Los agresivos recortes del gobierno de Trump a los programas de formación para obreros también han perjudicado los esfuerzos por formar a una nueva generación de trabajadores industriales. El gobierno ha tomado medidas para eliminar Job Corps, un programa de 60 años de antigüedad que ofrece una vía hacia una carrera en oficios especializados a jóvenes de entre 16 y 24 años en situación de riesgo. Huntington Ingalls Industries, el mayor constructor naval de Estados Unidos, contrató en diciembre a 68 graduados de Job Corps en un intento de reforzar su fuerza laboral.

La brecha entre las habilidades disponibles y las necesarias en la fuerza laboral es cada vez mayor”, dijo Chris Kastner, presidente y director ejecutivo de Huntington Ingalls Industries. “La tecnología evoluciona rápidamente, pero los sistemas de educación y formación se quedan atrás con demasiada frecuencia”.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Piroschka Van De Wouw

El gobierno de Trump ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa denominada Make America Skilled Again (Hagamos a Estados Unidos hábil de nuevo), que consolida los programas existentes de formación de mano de obra en una sola iniciativa que daría subvenciones a los estados si cumplen determinados criterios. Al menos el 10 por ciento de la nueva financiación de Make America Skilled Again debe destinarse a programas de aprendizaje.

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En abril, Trump firmó una orden ejecutiva que ordenaba al secretario de Trabajo, al secretario de Comercio y al secretario de Educación que presentaran un plan para crear un millón de programas de aprendizaje registrados. Sin embargo, no está claro si ese ambicioso objetivo podrá alcanzarse con los fondos asignados en el proyecto de presupuesto de Trump, que recorta US$1600 millones destinados a la capacitación laboral.

En abril, el secretario del Tesoro, Scott Bessent, provocó la ira de muchos empleados federales cuando sugirió que las fábricas estadounidenses podrían obtener los trabajadores que necesitaban entre las filas de los empleados despedidos del gobierno. “Nos estamos deshaciendo del exceso de trabajadores en el gobierno federal”, dijo a Tucker Carlson, antiguo presentador de Fox News. “Eso nos dará la mano de obra que necesitamos para la nueva fabricación”.

Sin embargo, en el evento de Roundtable nunca se habló de reclutar empleados federales despedidos. En lugar de esto, los participantes hablaron de los esfuerzos para formar a estudiantes de preparatoria y veteranos.

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Blake Moret, presidente y director ejecutivo de Rockwell Automation, una empresa especializada en automatización de procesos con sede en Milwaukee, dijo que su compañía había creado una academia de manufactura avanzada que capacitaba a exmilitares durante 12 semanas.

Sara Armbruster, directora ejecutiva de Steelcase, una compañía de Grand Rapids, Michigan, que diseña muebles, dijo que las empresas deben empezar a contratar personal en la preparatoria para que los estudiantes y sus padres aprendan lo gratificante que puede ser una carrera en la industria manufacturera.

Los estudiantes suelen cambiar de opinión sobre las carreras en el sector manufacturero cuando visitan el taller de la empresa y ven que una fábrica moderna es limpia, de alta tecnología y “cool”, añadió.

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“Cuando tienen ese momento, realmente lo cambia todo en términos de las posibilidades que se les abren en su carrera”, dijo.

Por Farah Stockman.

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JB Pritzker takes aim at Trump in launching Democratic re-election bid for Illinois governor

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Spotlighting his accomplishments and highlighting his pushback against President Donald Trump’s sweeping and controversial agenda, Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday launched his campaign for a third term as Illinois governor.

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«I’m ready for the fight ahead,» the governor said, announcing his 2026 re-election bid in the blue state. Pritzker is a billionaire and a member of the Pritzker family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain.

Pritzker said that «Illinois is standing at the center of the fight: the fight to make life more affordable, the fight to protect our freedoms, the fight for common sense.»

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Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday announced a 2026 re-election bid for a third term as Illinois governor. (Governor JB Pritzker via X)

Pritzker has become one of the Democratic Party’s most vocal Trump critics during the opening months of the president’s second tour in the White House.

Pointing to Trump and the Republicans who control Congress, Pritzker argued that «in Washington, all they’re offering is chaos and craziness. Their tariffs are hurting farmers and small businesses, stripping away health care from seniors and working families and proposing even bigger deficits than before, all to give big tax breaks to the wealthy.»

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«Donald Trump has made clear that he’ll stop at nothing to get his way,» the governor charged. «I’m not about to stand by and let him tear down all we’re building in Illinois.»

Pritzker, who started several of his own venture capital and investment startups before running for office, touted that «we don’t just talk about problems. In Illinois, we solve them.» In another jab at Trump, Pritzker said, «We know government ought to stand up for working families and be a force for good, not a weapon of revenge.»

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In his video, the governor touted that during his two terms in office, «we’ve balanced seven straight budgets and got nine credit upgrades. We raised the minimum wage, capped the cost of insulin, banned assault weapons, protected abortion rights, and eliminated the state grocery tax, lowered prescription drug costs and added tens of thousands of jobs.»

However, the Republican Governors Association (RGA) does not see it that way.

«People are fleeing Illinois by the hundreds of thousands and Illinois families continue to suffer the consequences of JB Pritzker’s abject record of failure at home while he spends his time on a national vanity project trying to further his own political career,» RGA Rapid Response Director Kollin Crompton said in a statement to Fox News.

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Crompton also charged that «opportunities for working Illinois families are in the garbage, criminal illegal immigrants are protected over law-abiding citizens, and Pritzker’s tax hikes are destroying family budgets.»

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Illinois, which is the nation’s sixth most populous state, does not have term limits for statewide officials. However, there has not been a three-term governor in the state in more than three decades, since GOP Gov. Jim Thompson won four terms as governor in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Pritzker is seen as a potential contender for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination – and the launch of his 2026 gubernatorial re-election campaign is not expected to derail him from potentially running for the White House.

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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is interviewed by Fox News Digital during a New Hampshire delegation breakfast at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 22, 2024 in Chicago. (Paul Steinhauser)

He was a high-profile campaign surrogate in the 2024 cycle on behalf of former President Joe Biden, as well as former Vice President Kamala Harris after she replaced Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee last summer. 

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Those efforts brought Pritzker to Nevada, a general election battleground state and an early-voting Democratic presidential primary state, and New Hampshire, which for a century has held the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

Additionally, Pritzker’s return to New Hampshire this spring to headline a major state Democratic Party fundraising dinner sparked more speculation about a possible 2028 presidential run.

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Champion skydiver plummets to death during wingsuit jump

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A champion wingsuit flyer who featured in a BBC documentary called The Boy Who Can Fly has died after he was critically injured in a jump over the weekend. 

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Liam Byrne, 24, was taking part in a high-risk jump at nearly 8,000 feet above sea level in the Swiss Alps on Saturday when tragedy struck, according to The Telegraph, citing local police. 

Byrne, of Scotland, was wearing a wingsuit, a specialized webbed-sleeved jumpsuit with membranes between the arms, body and legs which allows a diver to glide flight in the air.

Wingsuit diver Liam Byrne in action and smiling in a collage. He died on Saturday. (Instagram @liambyrne0)

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He was one of three wingsuit pilots who launched a jump from Gitschen, a mountain overlooking Lake Lucerne in Switzerland.

However, Byrne «deviated from his intended course shortly after take-off for reasons still unknown and crashed into a rocky outcrop,» police said. «He suffered fatal injuries.»

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Byrne, a British champion in the adrenaline-fueled sport, was an experienced flyer with more than 4,000 jumps to his name, according to the outlet. His Instagram account also lists him as a skydiving instructor, wingsuit coach and BASE (Building, Antenna, Span and Earth) jumper.

In the BBC-produced documentary, filmmakers follow Byrne’s journey to champion flyer.

Byrne told the documentary: «I think I was about 13 when I said to my dad that I wanted to learn to fly like a bird.»

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Wingsuit jumper Liam Byrne and another man in a wingsuit.

Byrne getting ready to jump, left, a man in a wingsuit on Tianmen mountain in Zhangjiajie, China’s Hunan province, showing his full suit. (Instagram @liambyrne0;  WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images.)

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He said that an office job scared him far more than the fear of dying from a base or wingsuit jump. He insisted that good preparation was at the heart of all his jumps and kept him safe and acknowledged that the high-risk sport worried his family.

Byrne climbed Mount Kilimanjaro at age 12, became a licensed paraglider at 14, completed his first skydive at 16 and was flying in a wingsuit by 18, according to the BBC.

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Byrne’s family released a statement praising him and saying that the sport was «more than just a thrill for Liam – it was freedom. It was where he felt most alive.»

«We would like to remember Liam not just for the way he left this world, but for how he lived in it,» the statement reads in part.

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Liam Byrne in the last wingsuit jump he posted to Instagram. (Instagram @liambyrne0)

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«Liam was fearless, not necessarily because he wasn’t afraid but because he refused to let fear hold him back. He chased life in a way that most of us only dream of and he soared.»

The statement continued: «He inspired all of us and made life better with his bold spirit and kind heart. We will miss Liam’s wild energy and contagious laugh. Though he has now flown beyond our reach, he will always be with us.»

There have been a number of wingsuit-related deaths in the U.S., including a January 2024 incident in which Gregory Coates, 36, died in Colorado after both his primary and reserve parachutes failed to deploy.

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In September, Jonathan Bizilia, 27, of Alabama died in a jump in Utah.


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