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The National Marriage Boycott was an LGBT rights protest in the United States which began in 2009 and ended in 2015 following the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling. It was created in November 2008 by students at Stanford University as a reaction to the election of Barack Obama and the approval of Proposition 8 by voters in California. Participants in the protest signed online pledges stating that they would not get legally married in the United States until full marriage equality was legalized throughout the country; they then bought rings with the word "EQUALITY" and an equals sign on them (in stainless steel with black enamel around them to make the word and symbol more visible) to be worn on the finger on which a wedding ring is usually worn, in a similar manner to a purity ring.