Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, 2004.
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- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
- STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
- MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL 6 YEARS AGO ILLOIS. SCE THEN, NEARLY 15,000 GAY UPL HAVE WED COOK COUNTY.
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * map of countries that allow gay marriage *
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.
That was only eighteen years ago, meang that the legalizatn of gay marriage is an up-and-g change the world as of ls than two s ago. Here are the natns that have already legalized gay marriage, followed by the rpective years which same-sex marriag beme legal. 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.
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
There are 27 untri where gay marriage is legal. * map of countries that allow gay marriage *
There are only two untri that have not fully legalized gay marriage but have allowed same-sex upl to be wed certa regns wh the untry.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
Worldwi, most of the untri that allow gay marriage are Wtern Europe. In the Ameris, five untri have legalized gay marriage. * map of countries that allow gay marriage *
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.
Some untri are so adamant about not legalizg gay marriage that they crimalize homosexualy to the full extent of the law. 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. 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.
THE COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL [MAP]
14 US stat wh bans on same-sex marriage n no longer enforce them the wake of a historic US Supreme Court lg that gay marriage is now legal across the entirety of the Uned Stat. Nearly two dozen ernments around the world have troduced legislatn allowg gays and lbians [...] * map of countries that allow gay marriage *
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.
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.
STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)
* map of countries that allow gay marriage *
Ecuador legally regnized same-sex marriage after a majory of judg s hight urt led favor of a gay uple sug the untry’s civil registry. Prime Mister Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay, supported the measure and beme the first lear of the European Unn to marry his partner.
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.
Estonia is now the send untry 2023 to legalize gay marriage, after Andorra did so earlier this marriage has advanced untri and regns where acceptance of homosexualy is high and globally, two-thirds of untri that allow are Wtern Europe. Sce then, however, Hungarian lawmakers and populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban have passed several anti-LGBTQ+ laws, cludg on that prohib same-sex upl om adoptg children and ban any ntent emed to promote beg gay or transgenr om beg distributed to people unr the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, Chechnya, a semitonomo republic wh Rsia, dozens of men spected of beg gay have been taed, tortured, and even killed two separate official crackdowns sce 2017.
MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
Marriage equaly is important when to creased protectn for our muny as well as visibily and normalizg of LGBTQ+ weddgs, mment, marriage, fai and basic humany. Here's the latt list of untri that allow gay marriage. * map of countries that allow gay marriage *
Sgaporean Prime Mister Lee Hsien Loong vowed 2022 to crimalize gay sex but said this would not change the stat quo on marriage. In Bnei, gay sex is punishable by stong to ath, though followg ternatnal outcry, the ernment said won’t enforce the law.
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
When Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, s anti-LGBTQ+ laws were wily cricized; prohibs gay sex, and secury forc have asslted transgenr women and other LGBTQ+ people, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. In 2018, Lebane urts set a potential precent for the crimalizatn of gay sex, but the untry ntued to crack down on peaceful LGBTQ+ gathergs 2021 and banned them outright 2022.
Pollg by Aobarometer between 2016 and 2018 found that 78 percent [PDF] of Ains across thirty-four untri were tolerant of homosexualy.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BEME LEGAL 6 YEARS AGO ILLOIS. SCE THEN, NEARLY 15,000 GAY UPL HAVE WED COOK COUNTY.
In Ghana, where same-sex relatns are an imprisonable offense, draft legislatn would make intifyg as gay or an LGBTQ+ ally a felony. However, there have been recent advanc: the Aobarometer poll found that majori three untri addn to South Ai—Cape Ver, Mri, and Namibia—are tolerant of homosexualy.
When gay marriage was legalized 2015, the Uned Stat beme one of 27 untri around the world where same-sex marriage is legally regnized. The untri that legalized gay marriag most recently are Malta, Germany, and Atralia, all of which passed legislatn which same-sex marriag are formally regnized.