Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

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• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• THIS MAP SHOWS WHICH COUNTRI STILL HAVEN'T LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE | © LIPOWSKI MILAN/SHUTTERSTOCK LE ABRAHAMS 11 JANUARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IT’S PRI MONTH. REGARDLS OF YOUR RACE, GENR, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, ’S A TIME TO CELEBRATE DIVERSY AND CULTURAL VALU – HOW CULTURE TRIPPY IS THAT? VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MONTH VOTED ENTIRELY TO CELEBRATE EQUAL-RIGHTS, VELOPMENT AND JT BEG PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, THERE’S OODL TO CELEBRATE TERMS OF LGBTQ RIGHTS. IRELAND HAS AN OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LUXEMBOURG HAS A FIRST HBAND, AND JT THE OTHER DAY, GERMANY SAID Y TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THAT’S PROGRSN, RIGHT? TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC SOUTH AI GREECE CROATIA TURKEY MEXI SPA ICELAND BALI JAPAN ECUADOR THAILAND INDIA EGYPT SO FAR, THERE ARE EXACTLY 23 UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD THAT HAVE LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, 75 OTHER SOVEREIGN NATNS, MARRIAGE BETWEEN LGBTQ UPL IS STILL ILLEGAL, AND EIGHT OF THEM, HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL PUNISHABLE BY ATH. THE INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN (ILGA)REGNIS THIS STGGLE, AND EVERY YEAR RELEAS A REPORT THAT SHOWS THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTQ DIVIDUALS AROUND THE GLOBE. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP THE HANDY LTLE MAP CREATED BY THE ANIZATN BELOW SHOWS ALL OF THIS YEAR’S FDGS, FOCG PARTICULARLY ON NATNS WHERE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS STILL ILLEGAL. | © INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN A STAGGERG 40% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN STILL LIVE UNTRI WHERE PEOPLE N BE PROSECUTED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND MORE THAN 400 LN, RI A STATE WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S STILL A LTLE MORE WORK TO BE DONE.LOVE MAPS? THIS ONE SHOWS EUROPE ACRDG TO EUROPEANS! VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE 
• GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

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. 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. 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. 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.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL

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 globe.People take part the gay pri nga, May 13, 2023, Havana.(YAMIL LAGE/AFP/Getty Imag)Sce the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage 2001, more than 30 untri around the world have followed su.On June 20, 2023, Estonia moved to bee the first ex-Soviet bloc untry to legalize the practice, wh s new law takg effect next year.Today, marriage equaly is largely limed to untri North and South Ameri, Europe and Oceania. The first same-sex marriag took place Northern Ireland Febary 2020.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.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Prime Mister Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay, supported the measure and beme the first lear of the European Unn to marry his partner.Stland: 2014The Sttish Parliament passed a bill allowg same-sex marriage Febary 2014 and the law took effect later that year.

THIS MAP SHOWS WHICH COUNTRI STILL HAVEN'T LEGALIZED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE | © LIPOWSKI MILAN/SHUTTERSTOCK LE ABRAHAMS 11 JANUARY 2019 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT IT’S PRI MONTH. REGARDLS OF YOUR RACE, GENR, OR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, ’S A TIME TO CELEBRATE DIVERSY AND CULTURAL VALU – HOW CULTURE TRIPPY IS THAT? VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MONTH VOTED ENTIRELY TO CELEBRATE EQUAL-RIGHTS, VELOPMENT AND JT BEG PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, THERE’S OODL TO CELEBRATE TERMS OF LGBTQ RIGHTS. IRELAND HAS AN OPENLY GAY PRIME MISTER, LUXEMBOURG HAS A FIRST HBAND, AND JT THE OTHER DAY, GERMANY SAID Y TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THAT’S PROGRSN, RIGHT? TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP MOROC SOUTH AI GREECE CROATIA TURKEY MEXI SPA ICELAND BALI JAPAN ECUADOR THAILAND INDIA EGYPT SO FAR, THERE ARE EXACTLY 23 UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD THAT HAVE LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. HOWEVER, 75 OTHER SOVEREIGN NATNS, MARRIAGE BETWEEN LGBTQ UPL IS STILL ILLEGAL, AND EIGHT OF THEM, HOMOSEXUALY IS STILL PUNISHABLE BY ATH. THE INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN (ILGA)REGNIS THIS STGGLE, AND EVERY YEAR RELEAS A REPORT THAT SHOWS THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF LGBTQ DIVIDUALS AROUND THE GLOBE. EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP THE HANDY LTLE MAP CREATED BY THE ANIZATN BELOW SHOWS ALL OF THIS YEAR’S FDGS, FOCG PARTICULARLY ON NATNS WHERE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS STILL ILLEGAL. | © INTERNATNAL LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX ASSOCIATN A STAGGERG 40% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATN STILL LIVE UNTRI WHERE PEOPLE N BE PROSECUTED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND MORE THAN 400 LN, RI A STATE WHERE BEG GAY IS PUNISHABLE BY ATH. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S STILL A LTLE MORE WORK TO BE DONE.LOVE MAPS? THIS ONE SHOWS EUROPE ACRDG TO EUROPEANS! VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

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 ernment.Same-sex marriage beme legal Swen on May 1, 2009, followg the enactment of a marriage law passed by the Swedish Parliament early April. The news has sparked ternatnal outrage, and lls for a boytt of the Bnei-owned Dorchter Hotel cha, but has also shed a spotlight on the realy that homosexualy and genr-nonnformg inti remas illegal dozens of untri all over the world. An Indonian man is ned public om an executor known as 'algojo' for havg gay sex, which is agast Sharia law on May 23, 2017 Banda Aceh, Indonia.

While many untri that crimalize homosexualy have reputatns as reprsive regim, others are popular tourist statns wh Amerins unaware of the human-rights vlatns gog on beyond their rort walls:. (In Malaysia, where those nvicted face rporal punishment and up to 20 years prison, travel mister Mohamadd Ketapi recently sisted "I don't thk we have anythg like that our untry, " reference to gay people.

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. A movement fightg for gay rights the untry had been active sce the 1980s until the Dutch Parliament gave and tablished a missn to look to the issue of gay rights 1995.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The untry had wnsed activism the late 20th century om lobbyists mpaigng for the legalizatn of gay marriage wh the mpaigns latg the late 1990s. However, the bill was not aimed at addrsg the issue of gay marriag but stead as a solutn to the prevailg low marriage rat the untry. The law would still face cricism om opponents of gay marriage who fought the Constutnal Court, but the urt upheld the legaly of the law.

MARRIAGE EQUALY: UNTRI THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE 

The legalizatn of gay marriage the untry was as a rult of the enactment of the Civil Marriage Act which had been troduced to the Hoe of Commons as a bill Febary 2005 by the Prime Mister. 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.

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".

GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

However, 75 other sovereign natns, marriage between LGBTQ upl is still illegal, and eight of them, homosexualy is still punishable by ath.