Eastern Europe was once a world lear on gay rights. Then ran out of spegoats | CNN

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• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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.

The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support 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. 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.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

While the right to marry has been legalised 30 untri, homosexualy remas banned many parts of the world. - Europe, gay marriage pneers - On October 1, 1989, for the first time the world, several gay upl Denmark tied the knot civil unns, which while givg their relatnships a legal standg fell short of full was the Netherlands that first allowed gay marriag, givg more rights April then 16 European untri have followed su acceptg gay marriag: Atria, Belgium, Bra, Denmark, Fland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spa, Swen and most recently European untri allow only weaker civil partnerships for the LGBTQ muny -- cludg Croatia, Cyps, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, which rejected gay marriag a 2015 referendum.

On October 1, 1989, for the first time the world, gay upl Denmark tied the knot legal civil unns, but would have to wa until 2012 to be allowed to marry church LISELOTTE SABROE SCANPIX DENMARK/AFP/File.

In Romania a referendum aimed at enshrg a ban on gay marriage the nstutn failed 2018 bee of a low turnout. Progrs the AmerisCanada was the first Amerin untry to thorise same-sex marriage 2015 the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage natnwi at a time when was banned 14 out of 50 stat.

GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

However the Uned Stat' first gay marriage actually took place 1971, when a Mnota uple obtaed a marriage licence thanks to an overlooked legal loophole. In 2015 the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage natnwi at a time was banned 14 out of 50 stat Yana Paskova GETTY/AFP/File.

Half of s 32 stat have legalised gay civil unns 2015, and s ngrs on Tuday passed a bill legalisg full-blown same-sex left chang that would have paved the way for legal same-sex marriage out of s new nstutn adopted 2019.