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'FABULO GAY WEDDG' IS NEW ZEALAND'S FIRST
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| (Photo: Flickr/kelvhu)New Zealand's first same-sex marriage ceremoni were performed Monday, as dozens of gay upl married across the untry. "Social engeers cludg policians and activists are expectg marriage supporters to drop their eply held nvictns bee of the misguid cisns of policians, " McCroskrie Atralian homosexual upl also flew over to New Zealand to hold their own gay marriage ceremoni.
Some reports even claimed that gay upl om Hong Kong, Rsia and the Uned Stat traveled to New Zealand to hold same-sex marriage ceremoni. Currently, same-sex marriage is not legal Atralia, though Prime Mister Kev Rudd has said he will brg to a vote next now, as the only Asian-Pacifin regn to legalize gay marriage, New Zealand tends to market themselv as a weddg statn for same-sex upl.
THE FIRST COUNTRI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
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.
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. In July of 2010, Argenta beme the first Lat Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriag, attributg Argente gay people the same maral rights as the natn's heterosexuals.