Spa Gay Marriage Law Tak Effect July 3 - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE
• SPANISH PARLIAMENT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
• SPA GAY MARRIAGE LAW TAK EFFECT JULY 3
• LOVE AND THE STATE: GAY MARRIAGE SPA

SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE

HistoryHomosexual activy Spa?

SPANISH PARLIAMENT LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE

Homosexual activy Spa is In 1979 Adolfo Suárez Government reversed the prev prohibns on same sex activy. Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)The Vagrants and Common Delquents Law (Ley Vagos y Maleant) was modified unr the regime of Francis Fran to prohib homosexual acts, wh a penalty of imprisonment.

Current statSce Jul 3, 2005Legal In July of 2005, Spa beme the third untry the world to legalize gay marriage, followg the Netherlands and Belgium. Informatn regardg blood donatn by MSM durg the Fran dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along wh the practice of homosexualy. Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris.

Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.

SPA GAY MARRIAGE LAW TAK EFFECT JULY 3

Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.

1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal. The Spanish parliament today voted to legalise gay marriage spe heavy opposn om the Roman Catholic is now the fourth untry the world to allow same-sex upl the same rights as married heterosexual upl. Canada approved gay marriag yterday, while the Netherlands and Belgium legalised them 2000 and Methodist church Bra yterday beme the first big Christian nomatn to offer the prospect of blsgs servic for same-sex landmark lg Spa giv married gay upl equal rights to herance and allows them to adopt children.

LOVE AND THE STATE: GAY MARRIAGE SPA

On the day he was nfirmed as prime mister, Mr Zapatero said he would fight discrimatn agast the bate before today's historic vote, Mr Zapatero acknowledged Spa was jog the growg numbers of untri legalisg gay marriag. Four members refed to vote on the senate, where nservativ have the majory, rejected the bill last week, but fal say on legislatn rts wh the church is so opposed to the bill took the rare step of endorsg a rally which hundreds of thoands, cludg 20 bishops, marched through Madrid prottg agast the legislatn on June last year, the spokman for the Spanish bishops nference, Anton Martínez Camo, said that allowg gay marriage was like "imposg a vis on society - somethg false that will have negative nsequenc for social life" rights groups weled today's vote and said the first gay marriag Spa uld take place as soon as 15 days after the law is published Spa's official journal. "This victory Spa will make many other untri start the battle for equaly bee is possible, " said gay rights activist Beatriz Gimeno.

"Durg the 1939 to 1975 dictatorship of Francis Fran, homosexualy, divorce and abortn were illegal.