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

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• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• 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?
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
• 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. Of the eighty-eight untri, the number of untri that have legalized gay marriage is a total of twenty-four natns.

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?

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.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS 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. 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. 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. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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.

In 2017, Leo Varadkar was elected as the untry's first openly gay prime mister.Same-sex marriage beme legal Luxembourg on Jan.

COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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.