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

Contents:

• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• IN PICTUR: UK'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI
• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

“Congratulatns to the gay upl who have already been married – and my bt wish to those about to be on this historic day, ” Uned Kgdom Prime Mister David Cameron tweeted Saturday morng. June 26 marks the fifth anniversary of gay marriage beg legalized across the entire Uned memorate this tone LGBTQ history, we are takg a look at untri around the world that have officially legalized same-sex marriage. We're here to help wh life's everyday qutnsSame-sex upl and adoptnIn 2003, Massachetts beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt children, acrdg to the Boston Globe — but the journey to natnal adoptn equaly was far om 2016, a Feral District Court void a law Mississippi which prevented gay upl om adoptg children, acrdg to the Washgton Post.

Image source, Getty ImagTera Millward, pictured wh her new wife Helen Brearley after their weddg Halifax on Saturday morng, said gettg a weddg certifite would mean there was "te equaly" the law change took effect, allowg upl such as Phil Robathan and Jam Prton to marry, Liberal Democrat lear Nick Clegg said "gettg to aln ernment will have been worth " if helped jt one young gay person feel "safer, stronger, taller".

Some relig groups, cludg the Catholic Church, rema opposed to gay marriage, but Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby said: "The law's changed; we accept the suatn. 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.

IN PICTUR: UK'S FIRST GAY WEDDGS

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.

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". Media ptn, The morng gay marriage me to the USThe US Supreme Court has led that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the Uned means the 14 stat wh bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.

Media ptn, Print Obama: "This lg will strengthen all our muni"However, Christian nservativ nmned the Arkansas ernor and printial ndidate Mike Huckabee lled "an out-of-ntrol act of unnstutnal, judicial tyranny" Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocy group, said the cisn "ignored the voic of thoands of Amerins" Abbott, the ernor of Texas, a state where marriag licenc will now be issued to same-sex upl, said the jtic "have imposed on the entire untry their personal views on an issue that the Constutn and the Court's prev cisns rerve to the people of the stat" ptn, Emotn of wners and losers outsi Supreme CourtAt the scene - Pl Blake, BBC NewsLoud cheers epted outsi the urt after the lg was announced, and there were tears, hugs, and cheers of "USA USA USA!

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

"It's my hope that gay marriage will soon be a thg of the past, and om this day forward will simply be 'marriage, '" an emotnal Mr Obergefell said outsi the source, APImage ptn, Coupl some parts of Texas were able to get marriedStat affected: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and first state to allow same-sex marriage was Massachetts, which granted the right 2004.

" Over the years, as Indian society beme more acceptg of homosexualy and much of the untry's LGBTQ muny began celebratg their sexualy openly, the uple cid to make their relatnship known to their iends and fay. If legalized, India would bee the send enomy Asia after Taiwan to regnize same-sex marriage, a signifint right for the untry's LGBTQ muny more than four years after the top urt crimalized gay sex.

US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI

The historic lg 2018 that stck down a lonial-era law that had ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison expand nstutnal rights for the gay muny. In January, s llegium — prisg the Chief Jtice of India and two Jtic — said the ernment was opposg a gay judge's nomatn part bee of his sexual orientatn.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

Gay upl and LGBTQ activists argue that by refg to regnize same-sex marriage, the ernment is privg homosexual upl of their right to equaly enshred the nstutn and opportuni enjoyed by married heterosexual upl. Many such upl believe that legal regnn of same-sex marriage would not jt be a val step toward equaly but also rult more people g out as homosexuals and strengtheng their relatnship wh the state.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Mohan Bhagwat's ments, which uld force the ernment to reasss s posn, were a parture om the group's long-held views on homosexualy, which has a tangled history India, even though some of Hduism's most ancient texts are acceptg of same-sex upl. The act, which crimalised homosexual sex acts between nsentg men over the age of 21, opened the door to a slew of legal and social chang which would transform the way Brish society viewed same-sex relatnships over the next 50 are some of the key dat the history of gay rights the UK:1533: The Buggery Act, the first ever law to specifilly outlaw anal sex, was signed to English law.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

The same year Wilblood was the only openly gay man to ttify before Lord Wolfenn's quiry, which would ultimately remend the crimalisatn of homosexualy.

1957: The Wolfenn mtee published s report, based on three years of ttimony om police, psychiatrists and gay men but one of the mtee's 15 members, drawn om the world of polics, law, medice and amia, agreed that homosexual acts between nsentg men over the age of legal majory - 21 at the time - should not be a matter for the law.

1988: Then-Prime Mister Margaret Thatcher troduced an amendment to the Lol Government Act 1988 banng state schools om teachg or promotg the "acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship" notor "Sectn 28" ed wispread outrage and as the talyst for a massive surge gay activism, cludg the formatn of LGBT rights group Stonewall UK.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

OverviewAlthough homosexual activy has been legal Poland sce 1932, same-sex marriage and civil unns are not regnised Poland, nversn therapy is not banned, adoptn for same-sex upl is illegal and orr to legally change genr stat, surgery is requied (Equalx: LGBTQ rights Poland) Equal treatment law of 2010 bans discrimatn matters of employment and occupatn based on sexual orientatn (Equalx: LGBTQ rights Poland).

In the last few years, particular sce the iatn of the hate mpaign agast the LGBTQ muny Poland 2018 (Annual Review of the Human Rights Suatn of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People Poland Coverg the Perd of January to December 2020 by ILGA Europe), the LGBTQ suatn has signifintly terrated, to the pot that acrdg to the latt ILGA Europe untry rankg report, Poland is now nsired the worst state the European Unn for LGBTQ rights, down to jt 13 percent 2021 om 28 percent 2014. Intertgly, spe this rapid and worryg terratn, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Centre report on homosexualy released 2020, the percentage of people that clare their acceptance for homosexualy grew by 5 pots between 2013 and 2019 - om 42 percent top 47 percent. Replika - LGBTQ magaze [ Polish] and statisticsPoland hate crime data by OSCE ODIHR [ English] Homophobia report: latt edn, clus maps and dataset, ILGA Europe - a world survey of sexual orientatn laws + olr edns [ English].