Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry.
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IS GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ATRALIA
Jt three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong support for gay marriage, Parliament voted overwhelmgly to follow the public’s lead. * when was gay marriage legalized australia *
The amendment of the feral Marriage Act on 9 December 2017 gave same-sex upl the same right to marry as heterosexual was the culmatn of s of mpaigng by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA+) muni and their passg of the Bill the Hoe of Reprentativ was seen as a watershed moment for equal rights Atralia.
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In 2018, about 76 untri still crimalise homosexual activy. Penalti for homosexual acts have varied across the stat and terrori but all have clud terms of imprisonment and dividuals were still beg arrted and charged to the 1970s.
Decrimalisatn of homosexualyFrom the 1960s the socially progrsive South Atralian Labor ernment wanted to repeal laws crimalisg homosexualy. However, was not until the May 1972 murr Alai of Dr Gee Dunn, a law lecturer and gay man, that premier, Don Dunstan, asssed that the muny mood was receptive to Dunn’s murr led to revelatns of how monplace vlence and harassment agast homosexual people Atralia’s Crimal Law (Sexual Offenc) Act, was enacted on 2 October 1975. It was a landmark LGBTQIA+ rights Atralia bee fully crimalised homosexual acts.
‘We are fay’ lead float, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 1992. Atralian Marriage Equaly B, Sydney Gay andLbian Mardi Gras, 2012. Among them was Christe Forster, the gay sister of Tony Abbott, the former Atralian Prime Mister who has long been seen as the face of the “no” mpaign.