Contents:
- GERMANY JT LEGALISED GAY MARRIAGE: HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- GERMANY GAY MARRIAGE: COUPLE ARE FIRST TO MARRY UNR NEW LAW
GERMANY JT LEGALISED GAY MARRIAGE: HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Germany now jos 22 other untri around the world where gay marriage is already a right, cludg South Ai (the only untry on the Ain ntent), France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spa and Argenta.
The announcement me rather swiftly as far as German ernment cisn-makg normally go, after Chancellor Angela Merkel eased her own party’s opposn to gay unn, askg lawmakers to e to a cisn aligned wh their own good nscience. If gay marriage is cid, then many will receive somethg, but nobody will have somethg taken away”.
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WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
The survey also found that more male gay marriag take place German ci, while female upl tend to get married smaller towns or villag. 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. Northern Ireland is the 18th European jurisdictn to legalize gay marriage.
The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support gay marriage. Do Germany allow gay marriage wh the same rights as heterosexual upl? California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.
GERMANY GAY MARRIAGE: COUPLE ARE FIRST TO MARRY UNR NEW LAW
The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
The German Constutn of 1919 clud Article 175, which outlawed homosexual behavr between men. In 1969, the German Parliament crimalized homosexual relatns between nsentg adults. Homosexuell (Homosexual): A term ed to scribe people attracted to the same sex.
Schwul (Gay): A term ed to scribe men attracted to other men. Christopher Street Day (CSD) is an annual pri para held Berl, and other major ci across Germany, celebratg gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQIA+) culture and pri. LGBTQIA+ rights Germany have e a long way sce the untry's crimalizatn of homosexualy 1871.