Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT

This is more than before the adoptn of same-sex marriage when Insee unted an average of 5, 762 civil unns of homosexual upl per year (between 1999 and 2012). The choice of marriage among homosexual upl is motivated by a "symbolic" signifince, Mlay said. Persistent difficulti startg a fay The legalizatn of same-sex marriage has ma possible for married homosexual upl to adopt a child, whereas civil unns did not allow them to do so.

But this remas limed: Sce 2013, the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Parents (APGL) timat, based on s own cens and the rults of a number of surveys, that only 200 same-sex parentg fai have succeed adoptg (wards of the Natn and children born abroad clud). Try for ee This figure is nsistent wh that of a report by the French Mistry of Jtice, which unted, for the year 2018, only eighteen plenary adoptns by homosexual upl. Nilas Faget, a spokperson for the APGL, told Le Mon that homosexual upl faced difficulti foundg a fay: The procs is lengthy and adoptn is still forbidn some untri.

Sce the adoptn of a bethics law 2021, and the openg of medilly assisted procreatn to homosexual upl, the procre is simplified.

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

Views on same-sex marriage or other legal regnnViews on same-sex upl' right to adoptAcceptance of homosexuals as neighbors? By The Numbers63% of French support gay marriage35% of French Mlims fd homosexual acts to be acceptableHistoryHomosexual activy France? Current statSce Sep 25, 1791Legal The law of 1791 crimalized homosexual activy, however, do not regnize homosexualy marriage France?

Current statSce Mar 16, 2022Legal In 2022, France removed the ferral perd for gay and bi men donatg blood, replacg wh a new policy that appli to all donors, regardls of sexual (3-month ferral)In July 2019, Mister of Health Agnès Buzyn announced that the ferral perd would be rced to four months of abstence om 2 April "f s scrimatns don du sang pour l homm ayant s relatns sexuell avec s homm.

NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

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. Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry. 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. The French parliament has approved a bill legalisg same-sex marriage and adoptn, followg a divisive public be the 14th untry to pass a law allowg gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.