Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unns | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE 
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

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. 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. 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.

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. No ernment or relig stutn has the right to tell that our weddgs are not valid weddgs or that gay marriage isn’t equal to straight marriage jt bee the law, certa segments of society or relig stance hasn’t que ught up to the fact that marriage equaly is a basic human right. On June 18, Luxembourg’s parliament, the Chamber of Deputi, overwhelmgly approved legislatn that will allow gay and lbian upl to wed and to adopt children.

MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE 

The new law England and Wal, which was a prry for Brish Prime Mister and Conservative Party lear David Cameron, allowed gay and lbian upl to marry begng March 29, 2014. On May 18, French Print Franis Hollan signed to law a measure legalizg same-sex marriage, makg France the 14th untry to grant gays and lbians the right to wed. Te to their mpaign promis, Hollan and the Socialists have phed through a law that not only legaliz same-sex marriage but also giv gay and lbian upl the right to adopt children—a provisn that has drawn pecially strong cricism om French Catholic lears.

Sce the begng of 2013, several anti-gay marriage protts wh ocsnally volatile crowds numberg the hundreds of thoands have taken place Paris and elsewhere. On April 17, the New Zealand Parliament gave fal approval to a measure that legaliz same-sex marriage, makg the Pacific island natn the 13th untry the world and the first the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to wed. Wh the legalizatn of gay marriage, the Evangelil Lutheran Church Denmark (which is the state church), is required to allow same-sex upl to marry church.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

In the before the enactment of the same-sex marriage law, a number of lol jurisdictns, cludg the natn’s pal, Buenos Air, had enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to enter to civil unns. However, the tradnal monarch of the Zulu people, who acunt for about one-fifth of the untry’s populatn, matas that homosexualy is morally wrong. Same-sex upl Canada gaed most of the legal benefs of marriage 1999 when the feral and provcial ernments extend mon law marriag to gay and lbian upl.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Five years later, January 2003, the Belgian parliament legalized same-sex marriage, givg gay and lbian upl the same tax and herance rights as heterosexual upl. The cisn gave same-sex upl the right to seek a urt junctn agast state laws banng gay marriage; although did not technilly legalize same-sex unns natnwi, was a major step that directn.

Mexi’s Supreme Court also issued a lg favor of same-sex marriage 2010, sayg that same-sex marriag performed Mexi Cy were valid and that they mt be accepted throughout the untry (Mexi Cy had legalized gay marriage December 2009). 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. 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.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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 the five untri, support for the right of same-sex upl to marry or ga another form of legal regnn ranged between 83 and 89 percent – the hight the though support for gay marriage was higher the UK and Germany at 68 percent each than Italy at 63 percent, 20 percent of Italians supported legal unns, rultg a higher the U. Same-Sex Marriage Legalizatn by CountryThe Dutch triggered a polil and social shift that has spread across large swaths of the take part the gay pri nga, May 13, 2023, Havana.

Icelandic Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir ma history Febary 2009 when she beme the untry's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of marriage beme legal Swen on May 1, 2009, followg the enactment of a marriage law passed by the Swedish Parliament early April. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person" Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold is homosexualy still outlawed? In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.

Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and 's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy. Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal.

COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE

For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons".

Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state. ”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters. “Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. More than 18 years after the Netherlands beme the world’s first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has bee the latt European jurisdictn to allow gays and lbians to marry.