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Contents:

• ELEGANT GAY ELOPEMENT PARIS AT THE EIFFEL TOWER
• 13% OF ALL MARRIAG PARIS LAST YEAR WERE GAY
• HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• GAY MARRIAGE
• FRENCH ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS MARCH TO REVIVE ISSUE BEFORE POLLS
• MOMENTUM AND GAY MARRIAGE, OM PARIS TO SCOTUS
• THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989

ELEGANT GAY ELOPEMENT PARIS AT THE EIFFEL TOWER

The style they had preapred for their gay weddg Paris was simple and elegant: They both wore black tuxedos, black bowti and black patent leather sho.

Same-sex marriag have been legal France sce May 2013 spe signifint protts by the untry’s nservative the law was passed 18 months ago, some 2, 365 gay upl have tied the knot Paris, jt over 14 percent of the ’s INSEE natnal statistics office is due to publish natnwi same-sex marriage figur next week, but s 2013 figure shows the rt of the untry laggg far behd the pal at jt 3 percent of the Paris, the vast majory of gay marriag (72 percent) took place districts (arrondissements) wh Socialist mayors, and around a third were celebrated the 4th arrondissement, home to the historic and gay-iendly Marais well-heeled and nservative 16th arrondissement saw the lowt number of gay marriag at jt 6. On Saturday 50 people were taed for blockg the same-sex marriage bill, which also legalis gay adoptn, was signed to law by Print Franis Hollan last week, after months of heated bate.

13% OF ALL MARRIAG PARIS LAST YEAR WERE GAY

On Tuday, a far-right historian shot himself ad Notre Dame thedral, leavg msag which he nounced gay Sunday's protts, monstrators head lumns om a number of pots Paris to the Invalis ptn, Clash broke out after the ma monstratn fishedSome marchers drove donkeys, one of which bore a plard which read: "I am an ass. Opposn to gay marriage has bee nflated wh all sorts of other anti-ernment grievanc g om the right and the atmosphere the untry is particularly volatile, the BBC's Hugh Schofield is now the nth untry Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay on this story.

HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS

Sce gay marriage was legalized the untry 2013, La Manif Pour To (Demonstratn for All) has anized several large-sle march opposn.

"Even if the gay marriage law has been adopted, we will ntue the prott to show that is not good and we want to be repealed, " another participant said.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

In spe of the Manif's overwhelmg numbers year after year, Conservative printial nomee and France's former print Nilas Sarkozy says if he is elected he will not repeal gay marriage laws.

Manif Pour To started anizg ralli 2013, after then-Mister of Jtice Christiane Tbira troduced a law to legalize gay marriage — passed by parliament spe overwhelmg public opposn. Not every untry the world is volved the nversatn surroundg gay marriage, but a large percentage of the world’s natns have eher legalized same-sex marriage, permted gay marriage certa parts of the untry, allows civil unns between dividuals of the same sex, or actively rtricts gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE

That was only eighteen years ago, meang that the legalizatn of gay marriage is an up-and-g change the world as of ls than two s ago. Here are the natns that have already legalized gay marriage, followed by the rpective years which same-sex marriag beme legal. However, a uple of untri have not pletely legalized gay marriage all throughout the natn, wh same-sex upl only beg able to get married certa areas of said untri.

There are only two untri that have not fully legalized gay marriage but have allowed same-sex upl to be wed certa regns wh the untry. The number of untri that have not legalized gay marriage outweighs the number of untri that do, which uld take a turn the oppose directn as natns progrs over time. Some untri are so adamant about not legalizg gay marriage that they crimalize homosexualy to the full extent of the law.

FRENCH ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PROTTERS MARCH TO REVIVE ISSUE BEFORE POLLS

Rsia is an example of a natn that do not necsarily crimalize same-sex upl, but the ernment plac ser rtrictns on people who are gay, which is still a way of censorg relatnships that are not heterosexual.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

MOMENTUM AND GAY MARRIAGE, OM PARIS TO SCOTUS

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

THE PROFSNAL ATHLETE WHO CAME OUT AS A GAY MAN— 1989

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v. The state fally troduced the untry to gay marriage (m the feral benefs) when began issug same-sex marriage licens on May 17, that year, the U.