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20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL

At the start of this year, the Netherlands had 20 thoand gay upl. Until the troductn of gay marriage 2001, same-sex upl uld only formalise their relatnship through a registered partnership. Even after gay marriage was troduced, relatively many same-sex upl have been optg for a registered partnership stead of a marriage.

Sce 2015, the share of gay upl optg for a partnership has creased. The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years.

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Majory of married gay upl Amsterdam.

Facts about gay marriage the NetherlandsAre you a same-sex relatnship and nsirg marriage or registered partnership the Netherlands?

Read on to fd out some facts about gay marriage the did gay marriage bee legal the Netherlands? On September 12, 2000, a bill for the legalisatn of gay marriag was passed the Hoe of Reprentativ by 109 vot to 33, and on December 19, 2000, by the Senate by 49 vot to 26. Whilst the Netherlands was the first untry the world that legalised gay marriage, certaly was not the last.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Currently, gay marriage is legal over 25 untri and upl and children the NetherlandsPlease note that there is an important difference for same-sex upl wishg to formalise their unn the Netherlands when to children:Marriage between two womenAs of April 2014, a -mother n bee a child’s legal parent whout gog to the urts.

The Netherlands' gay muny rejoiced wh tears and whoops of exultatn Sunday over the world's first same-sex marriag regnized unr a new law. Amsterdam's mayor wed four gay upl at the stroke of midnight Saturday, immediately after the legislatn enacted last year went to effect. "I adm that 10 years ago I didn't unrstand why homosexuals were makg such a big al out of civil marriage.

Pk ke and pk champagne were served at a receptn, and then the party moved to several of Amsterdam's gay clubs. Also barred is the adoptn of foreign children by same-sex upl, orr to avoid nontatn wh ls liberal, the new law do allow gay upl to apply for urt permissn to adopt children after livg together for three years. Activist Henk Krol, edor--chief of the untry's popular monthly magaze Gay Krant, predicted 10-15 percent of all marriag 2001 - more than 10, 000 - will be by gay upl.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Several untri, cludg Swen and Denmark, have allowed gays to register as partners and even adopt children, but the Dutch have gone nounced the "register partnerships" as send-class marriage, sayg the Dutch bill helps elimate Vatin has vehemently rejected the new law, cricizg s passage last year as a "dangero" velopment. "Gays have enjoyed general acceptance the Netherlands for years, and public surveys show that more than 75 percent of the populatn supported the equal rights bill. 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.

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