Where is Same-Sex Marriage Legal? The Countri Have Legalised Gay Marriage

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• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD: HOW MANY UNTRI HAVE LEGALISED ?A GROWG NUMBER OF UNTRI HAVE NOW LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE - BELOW IS A LIST OF THEM. SOURCE: AAPMORE AND MORE UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE NOW LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL ATRALIA SCE DECEMBER 2017, WH THE FIRST CEREMONI HELD JANUARY 2018.AND THE LATT UNTRI TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAG WERE ECUADOR, TAIWAN AND ATRIA 2019.WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF UNTRI THAT HAVE PASSED LAWS TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.2001 – THE NETHERLANDSTHE NETHERLANDS WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO PASS LEGISLATN TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO LEGALLY MARRY, DIVORCE AND ADOPT CHILDREN.THE LAW PASSED BY A THREE-TO-ONE MARG.GERT KASTEEL, LEFT, AND DOLF PASKER BEE ONE OF THE FIRST SAME SEX UPL THE WORLD TO WED ON APRIL 1 2001. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/PETER DEJONG2003 – BELGIUMBELGIUM’S PARLIAMENT VOTED TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2003, WH THE LEGISLATN 2006 GRANTG SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO ADOPT CHILDREN.2005 – SPA AND CANADAIN 2005, CANADA BEME THE FIRST UNTRY OUTSI OF EUROPE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. PARLIAMENT PASSED LEGISLATN AFTER A STEADY MARCH OF URT LGS HAD LEGALISED THE PRACTICE THE MAJORY OF THE UNTRY’S PROVC.RELATED READINGCOUPL EXPRS JOY, RELIEF AFTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL PASSTHE CONSERVATIVE PARTY ATTEMPTED TO REPEAL THE LEGISLATN ONE YEAR LATER BUT WAS FEATED.SPA’S PARLIAMENT NARROWLY PASSED SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST LIBERAL MARRIAGE EQUALY LAWS 2005, EXTENDG FULL RIGHTS TO SAME-SEX UPL.THE MOVE SAW PROTTS OM CATHOLIC OFFICIALS AND BROUGHT LARGE CROWDS TO THE STREETS MADRID.2006 – SOUTH AISOUTH AI’S PARLIAMENT LEGISLATED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2006, DIFYG A 2005 URT CISN WHICH FOUND THAT RTRICTG MARRIAGE TO HETEROSEXUALS WAS DISCRIMATORY AND UNNSTUTNAL.THE LEGISLATN PASSED WH OVERWHELMG SUPPORT.AN UNINTIFIED MAN TAK PART JOHANNBURG'S 17TH GAY PRI PARA SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 2006. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/DENIS FARRELL2009 - NORWAY, SWENNORWAY PASSED A LAW 2008 ALLOWG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. SAME-SEX UPL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEGALLY MARRY SCE JANUARY 2009. THE NEW LAW REPLACED A 1993 LAW PERMTG CIVIL UNNS.SWEN’S PARLIAMENT PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS CISIVELY 2009, ALSO REPLACG EARLIER CIVIL UNN LAWS. THE CHURCH OF SWEN ALLOWS CLERGY TO OFFICIATE CEREMONI.2010 – PORTUGAL, ICELAND AND ARGENTAPORTUGAL LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2010 THROUGH A PARLIAMENTARY VOTE. IN 2016 PARLIAMENT OVERTURNED A PRINTIAL VETO AND GRANTED SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO ADOPT.ICELAND’S PARLIAMENT UNANIMOLY PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2010. COUPL WERE ALREADY ABLE TO ADOPT.THE UNTRY’S PRIME MISTER, JóHANNA SIGURðARDóTTIR, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO E THE LEGISLATN, MARRYG HER PARTNER, JóNíNA LEóSDóTTIR.ARGENTA’S PARLIAMENT NARROWLY PASSED SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE LAWS 2010, FOLLOWG SEVERAL REGNAL AREAS PASSG CIVIL UNN LAWS.THE LAW SPARKED AN OUTCRY OM CATHOLIC GROUPS THE UNTRY AS BEME THE FIRST SOUTH AMERI TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ICELAND'S SOCIAL AFFAIRS MISTER JOHANNA SIGURDARDOTTIR SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA FOLLOWG PARTY NEGOTIATNS REYKJAVIK, ICELAND. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/BRYNJAR GTI2012 – DENMARKDENMARK PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2012. COUPL ALREADY HAD THE RIGHT TO REGISTER AS PARTNERS AND ADOPT CHILDREN.2013 – FRANCE, BRAZIL, UGUAY AND NEW ZEALANDNEW ZEALAND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY THE ASIA PACIFIC TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WHEN PARLIAMENT FORTABLY PASSED THE LAW 2013. THE LAW ALSO ALLOWED UPL TO ADOPT.FRANCE LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX ADOPTN 2013, A MOVE WHICH ATTRACTED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PROTTERS AND UNTER-PROTTERS.UGUAY CISIVELY PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2013. COUPL ALREADY HAD THE RIGHT TO ADOPT.BRAZIL BEME THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOT THROUGH LEGISLATN, BUT WH A URT LG.THE NATNAL JTICE COUNCIL LED 2013 THAT CIVIL REGISTRARS MT OFFER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SERVIC AFTER SEVERAL REGNS HAD ALREADY LEGISLATED FOR LEGALISATN.  2014 – THE UNED KGDOM, EXCLUDG NORTHERN IRELANDIN 2013 BRISH PARLIAMENT PASSED A LAW WHICH WOULD LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ENGLAND AND WAL THE FOLLOWG YEAR. IN 2014 THE STTISH PARLIAMENT PASSED A SIAR BILL.NORTHERN IRELAND HAS NOT PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN.THE UK HAS PERFORMED HUNDREDS OF SAME-SEX WEDDGS ATRALIA FOR DUAL CIZENS.2015 – IRELAND, UNED STAT AND LUXEMBURGIN 2015 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNED STAT CLARED THAT THE NSTUTN PROTECTED THE RIGHTS OF CIZENS TO MARRY, REGARDLS OF GENR.THE DIVID OBERGEFELL V. HODG LG STANTLY LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ACROSS ALL 50 STAT, SEVERAL OF WHICH HAD ALREADY LEGISLATED THE ISSUE THEMSELV.RELATED READINGHOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CHANGED THE USIT WAS THE SAME YEAR THAT IRELAND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE.THE MAJORY CATHOLIC UNTRY VOTED SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WH A MAJORY OF 62 PER CENT.LUXEMBOURG’S PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMGLY SUPPORTED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN LEGISLATN 2014, WHICH ME TO FORCE ON 1 JANUARY 2015.LS THAN FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE LAW ME TO EFFECT, PRIME MISTER XAVIER BETTEL MARRIED HIS PARTNER, GTHIER DTENAY.JIM OBERGEFELL, THE NAMED PLATIFF THE SUPREME COURT SE THAT LEGALIZED SAME SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, BACKED BY SUPPORTERS OF THE URTS LG. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/ERIC GA2016 – COLOMBIA AND GREENLANDIN 2016 COLOMBIA’S TOP URT LED THAT THE UNTRY’S NSTUTN GUARANTEED THE RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. GREENLAND’S PARLIAMENT UNANIMOLY VOTED TO ADOPT THE MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN LEGISLATN OF S PARENT UNTRY, DENMARK, 2015. THE LEGISLATN ME TO EFFECT FOR 56,000 GREENLANRS 2016.2017 – FLAND, MALTA, GERMANY, ATRALIAIN FLAND, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL SCE 1 MARCH 2017. A BILL FOR THE LEGALISATN WAS APPROVED BY THE UNTRY'S PARLIAMENT ON 12 DECEMBER 2014 AND SIGNED BY THE UNTRY'S PRINT 2015. MALTA HAS ALLOWED SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY SCE A NEAR-UNANIMO APPROVAL OF THE BILL JULY 2017, THREE YEARS AFTER A LAW WAS PASSED PERMTG CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS THE PREDOMANTLY CATHOLIC UNTRY.GERMAN MPS VOTED TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE  A SNAP POLL JUNE 2017. IT BEME LAW A FEW MONTHS LATER, OCTOBER.ATRALIA FOUND OUT ON 15 NOVEMBER 2017 THAT 61.6 PER CENT OF VOTERS WERE FAVOUR OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHILE 38.4 PER CENT VOTED AGAST .A BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT WAS PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV ON 7 DECEMBER 2017 AND BEME LAW THE FOLLOWG DAY.THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL WERE LEGALLY MARRIED 2018.THOANDS OF SAME-SEX UPL LIVG ATRALIA WHO WERE MARRIED OVERSEAS STANTLY HAD THEIR UNNS REGNISED UNR THE LAW. 2019 - ECUADOR, TAIWAN, ATRIAECUADOR'S HIGHT URT HAS THORISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A LANDMARK SE SEEKG TO EXPAND LGBT RIGHTS THE SMALL SOUTH AMERIN NATN.THE CISN BY THE CONSTUTNAL COURT ME AFTER A LENGTHY LEGAL BATTLE WAGED BY SEVERAL UPL AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOT.IN 2017, TAIWAN’S TOP URT ISSUED AN ULTIMATUM TO THE PARLIAMENT: LEGISLATE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WH TWO YEARS OR WILL BEE LEGAL REGARDLS. EVEN BEFORE THE LG, PRINT TSAI ING-WEN PROMISED TO LEGISLATE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.IN MAY 2019, TAIWAN LEGALISED SAME-SEX UNNS AND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY ASIA TO DO SO.ATRIA JOED THE VAST MAJORY OF WTERN EUROPEAN UNTRI AND LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A HIGH COURT LG JANUARY 2019.PENDINGIN AUGT 2018, THE SUPREME COURT  COSTA RI HAS LED THAT THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN THE UNTRY IS UNNSTUTNAL AND DISCRIMATORY.THE URT LG GIV LEGISLATORS A TIME LIM OF 18 MONTHS TO CHANGE THE LAW.SBS VICELAND: GAYTN - LGBT+ LIFE AROUND THE WORLDSHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 1 JUNE 2017 4:12PMUPDATED 15 JUNE 2019 11:37AMBY BEN WSOR, DUBRAVKA VOLORTAGSEUROPEWORLDSOCIAL ISSUPACIFICATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE ARE ALL THE UNTRI THAT HAVE LEGALISED GAY MARRIAGE

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

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. 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.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL

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. 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. 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 then, however, Hungarian lawmakers and populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban have passed several anti-LGBTQ+ laws, cludg on that prohib same-sex upl om adoptg children and ban any ntent emed to promote beg gay or transgenr om beg distributed to people unr the age of eighteen. Meanwhile, Chechnya, a semitonomo republic wh Rsia, dozens of men spected of beg gay have been taed, tortured, and even killed two separate official crackdowns sce 2017. When Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, s anti-LGBTQ+ laws were wily cricized; prohibs gay sex, and secury forc have asslted transgenr women and other LGBTQ+ people, acrdg to Human Rights Watch.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD: HOW MANY UNTRI HAVE LEGALISED ?A GROWG NUMBER OF UNTRI HAVE NOW LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE - BELOW IS A LIST OF THEM. SOURCE: AAPMORE AND MORE UNTRI AROUND THE WORLD HAVE NOW LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL ATRALIA SCE DECEMBER 2017, WH THE FIRST CEREMONI HELD JANUARY 2018.AND THE LATT UNTRI TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAG WERE ECUADOR, TAIWAN AND ATRIA 2019.WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LIST OF UNTRI THAT HAVE PASSED LAWS TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.2001 – THE NETHERLANDSTHE NETHERLANDS WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO PASS LEGISLATN TO ALLOW SAME-SEX UPL TO LEGALLY MARRY, DIVORCE AND ADOPT CHILDREN.THE LAW PASSED BY A THREE-TO-ONE MARG.GERT KASTEEL, LEFT, AND DOLF PASKER BEE ONE OF THE FIRST SAME SEX UPL THE WORLD TO WED ON APRIL 1 2001. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/PETER DEJONG2003 – BELGIUMBELGIUM’S PARLIAMENT VOTED TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2003, WH THE LEGISLATN 2006 GRANTG SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO ADOPT CHILDREN.2005 – SPA AND CANADAIN 2005, CANADA BEME THE FIRST UNTRY OUTSI OF EUROPE TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. PARLIAMENT PASSED LEGISLATN AFTER A STEADY MARCH OF URT LGS HAD LEGALISED THE PRACTICE THE MAJORY OF THE UNTRY’S PROVC.RELATED READINGCOUPL EXPRS JOY, RELIEF AFTER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL PASSTHE CONSERVATIVE PARTY ATTEMPTED TO REPEAL THE LEGISLATN ONE YEAR LATER BUT WAS FEATED.SPA’S PARLIAMENT NARROWLY PASSED SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST LIBERAL MARRIAGE EQUALY LAWS 2005, EXTENDG FULL RIGHTS TO SAME-SEX UPL.THE MOVE SAW PROTTS OM CATHOLIC OFFICIALS AND BROUGHT LARGE CROWDS TO THE STREETS MADRID.2006 – SOUTH AISOUTH AI’S PARLIAMENT LEGISLATED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2006, DIFYG A 2005 URT CISN WHICH FOUND THAT RTRICTG MARRIAGE TO HETEROSEXUALS WAS DISCRIMATORY AND UNNSTUTNAL.THE LEGISLATN PASSED WH OVERWHELMG SUPPORT.AN UNINTIFIED MAN TAK PART JOHANNBURG'S 17TH GAY PRI PARA SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 2006. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/DENIS FARRELL2009 - NORWAY, SWENNORWAY PASSED A LAW 2008 ALLOWG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. SAME-SEX UPL HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LEGALLY MARRY SCE JANUARY 2009. THE NEW LAW REPLACED A 1993 LAW PERMTG CIVIL UNNS.SWEN’S PARLIAMENT PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS CISIVELY 2009, ALSO REPLACG EARLIER CIVIL UNN LAWS. THE CHURCH OF SWEN ALLOWS CLERGY TO OFFICIATE CEREMONI.2010 – PORTUGAL, ICELAND AND ARGENTAPORTUGAL LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 2010 THROUGH A PARLIAMENTARY VOTE. IN 2016 PARLIAMENT OVERTURNED A PRINTIAL VETO AND GRANTED SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO ADOPT.ICELAND’S PARLIAMENT UNANIMOLY PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2010. COUPL WERE ALREADY ABLE TO ADOPT.THE UNTRY’S PRIME MISTER, JóHANNA SIGURðARDóTTIR, WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO E THE LEGISLATN, MARRYG HER PARTNER, JóNíNA LEóSDóTTIR.ARGENTA’S PARLIAMENT NARROWLY PASSED SAME-SEX-MARRIAGE LAWS 2010, FOLLOWG SEVERAL REGNAL AREAS PASSG CIVIL UNN LAWS.THE LAW SPARKED AN OUTCRY OM CATHOLIC GROUPS THE UNTRY AS BEME THE FIRST SOUTH AMERI TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.ICELAND'S SOCIAL AFFAIRS MISTER JOHANNA SIGURDARDOTTIR SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA FOLLOWG PARTY NEGOTIATNS REYKJAVIK, ICELAND. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/BRYNJAR GTI2012 – DENMARKDENMARK PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2012. COUPL ALREADY HAD THE RIGHT TO REGISTER AS PARTNERS AND ADOPT CHILDREN.2013 – FRANCE, BRAZIL, UGUAY AND NEW ZEALANDNEW ZEALAND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY THE ASIA PACIFIC TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WHEN PARLIAMENT FORTABLY PASSED THE LAW 2013. THE LAW ALSO ALLOWED UPL TO ADOPT.FRANCE LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND SAME-SEX ADOPTN 2013, A MOVE WHICH ATTRACTED HUNDREDS OF THOANDS OF PROTTERS AND UNTER-PROTTERS.UGUAY CISIVELY PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN 2013. COUPL ALREADY HAD THE RIGHT TO ADOPT.BRAZIL BEME THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE NOT THROUGH LEGISLATN, BUT WH A URT LG.THE NATNAL JTICE COUNCIL LED 2013 THAT CIVIL REGISTRARS MT OFFER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE SERVIC AFTER SEVERAL REGNS HAD ALREADY LEGISLATED FOR LEGALISATN.  2014 – THE UNED KGDOM, EXCLUDG NORTHERN IRELANDIN 2013 BRISH PARLIAMENT PASSED A LAW WHICH WOULD LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ENGLAND AND WAL THE FOLLOWG YEAR. IN 2014 THE STTISH PARLIAMENT PASSED A SIAR BILL.NORTHERN IRELAND HAS NOT PASSED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATN.THE UK HAS PERFORMED HUNDREDS OF SAME-SEX WEDDGS ATRALIA FOR DUAL CIZENS.2015 – IRELAND, UNED STAT AND LUXEMBURGIN 2015 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNED STAT CLARED THAT THE NSTUTN PROTECTED THE RIGHTS OF CIZENS TO MARRY, REGARDLS OF GENR.THE DIVID OBERGEFELL V. HODG LG STANTLY LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ACROSS ALL 50 STAT, SEVERAL OF WHICH HAD ALREADY LEGISLATED THE ISSUE THEMSELV.RELATED READINGHOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE CHANGED THE USIT WAS THE SAME YEAR THAT IRELAND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BY POPULAR VOTE.THE MAJORY CATHOLIC UNTRY VOTED SUPPORT OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WH A MAJORY OF 62 PER CENT.LUXEMBOURG’S PARLIAMENT OVERWHELMGLY SUPPORTED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN LEGISLATN 2014, WHICH ME TO FORCE ON 1 JANUARY 2015.LS THAN FOUR MONTHS AFTER THE LAW ME TO EFFECT, PRIME MISTER XAVIER BETTEL MARRIED HIS PARTNER, GTHIER DTENAY.JIM OBERGEFELL, THE NAMED PLATIFF THE SUPREME COURT SE THAT LEGALIZED SAME SEX MARRIAGE NATNWI, BACKED BY SUPPORTERS OF THE URTS LG. SOURCE: AP PHOTO/ERIC GA2016 – COLOMBIA AND GREENLANDIN 2016 COLOMBIA’S TOP URT LED THAT THE UNTRY’S NSTUTN GUARANTEED THE RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. GREENLAND’S PARLIAMENT UNANIMOLY VOTED TO ADOPT THE MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN LEGISLATN OF S PARENT UNTRY, DENMARK, 2015. THE LEGISLATN ME TO EFFECT FOR 56,000 GREENLANRS 2016.2017 – FLAND, MALTA, GERMANY, ATRALIAIN FLAND, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE HAS BEEN LEGAL SCE 1 MARCH 2017. A BILL FOR THE LEGALISATN WAS APPROVED BY THE UNTRY'S PARLIAMENT ON 12 DECEMBER 2014 AND SIGNED BY THE UNTRY'S PRINT 2015. MALTA HAS ALLOWED SAME-SEX UPL TO MARRY SCE A NEAR-UNANIMO APPROVAL OF THE BILL JULY 2017, THREE YEARS AFTER A LAW WAS PASSED PERMTG CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS THE PREDOMANTLY CATHOLIC UNTRY.GERMAN MPS VOTED TO LEGALISE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE  A SNAP POLL JUNE 2017. IT BEME LAW A FEW MONTHS LATER, OCTOBER.ATRALIA FOUND OUT ON 15 NOVEMBER 2017 THAT 61.6 PER CENT OF VOTERS WERE FAVOUR OF LEGALISG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHILE 38.4 PER CENT VOTED AGAST .A BILL TO CHANGE THE MARRIAGE ACT WAS PASSED THE HOE OF REPRENTATIV ON 7 DECEMBER 2017 AND BEME LAW THE FOLLOWG DAY.THE FIRST SAME-SEX UPL WERE LEGALLY MARRIED 2018.THOANDS OF SAME-SEX UPL LIVG ATRALIA WHO WERE MARRIED OVERSEAS STANTLY HAD THEIR UNNS REGNISED UNR THE LAW. 2019 - ECUADOR, TAIWAN, ATRIAECUADOR'S HIGHT URT HAS THORISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE A LANDMARK SE SEEKG TO EXPAND LGBT RIGHTS THE SMALL SOUTH AMERIN NATN.THE CISN BY THE CONSTUTNAL COURT ME AFTER A LENGTHY LEGAL BATTLE WAGED BY SEVERAL UPL AND GAY RIGHTS ADVOT.IN 2017, TAIWAN’S TOP URT ISSUED AN ULTIMATUM TO THE PARLIAMENT: LEGISLATE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WH TWO YEARS OR WILL BEE LEGAL REGARDLS. EVEN BEFORE THE LG, PRINT TSAI ING-WEN PROMISED TO LEGISLATE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.IN MAY 2019, TAIWAN LEGALISED SAME-SEX UNNS AND BEME THE FIRST UNTRY ASIA TO DO SO.ATRIA JOED THE VAST MAJORY OF WTERN EUROPEAN UNTRI AND LEGALISED SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER A HIGH COURT LG JANUARY 2019.PENDINGIN AUGT 2018, THE SUPREME COURT  COSTA RI HAS LED THAT THE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN THE UNTRY IS UNNSTUTNAL AND DISCRIMATORY.THE URT LG GIV LEGISLATORS A TIME LIM OF 18 MONTHS TO CHANGE THE LAW.SBS VICELAND: GAYTN - LGBT+ LIFE AROUND THE WORLDSHARE6 M READPUBLISHED 1 JUNE 2017 4:12PMUPDATED 15 JUNE 2019 11:37AMBY BEN WSOR, DUBRAVKA VOLORTAGSEUROPEWORLDSOCIAL ISSUPACIFICATRALIASHARE THIS WH FAY AND IENDSCOPY LKSHARETOPICS

In 2018, Lebane urts set a potential precent for the crimalizatn of gay sex, but the untry ntued to crack down on peaceful LGBTQ+ gathergs 2021 and banned them outright 2022. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.

For example, many of the smaller Caribbean untri and some Ain untri are omted due to rearch limatns, but most have anti-LGBT laws on the books and pervasive homophobia and transphobia.

Proment gay activists Xulhaz Mannan, the founr of Roopbaan, Banglash’s first lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) magaze, and Mahbub Rabby Tonoy, the general secretary of the group, were murred April. Sarajevo Open Centre, the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr rights anizatn, documented 23 s of hate speech and cement of vlence and hate and two crim and cints motivated by prejudice on the basis of sexual orientatn and/or genr inty the first three months of 2016.

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The natnal Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office received 1, 983 plats of vlence, discrimatn, and other ab experienced by lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) persons 2015. Unr Colombian law, the spector general is charged wh protectg human rights, but durg his seven years office, Ordoñez repeatedly sought to unrme the rights of women and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.

The ernment ntued to rist lls to repeal laws that crimalize homosexualy, cludg an October 2014 law that troduced a seri of new “aggravated homosexualy” offens that impose sentenc of up to life prison. The crimalizatn of same-sex nduct leav lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Gambians at risk of arbrary arrt and tentn, although fewer arrts and physil abe of LGBT Gambians were reported 2016. Authori cled a requt by LGBT activists to hold an event to mark Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) on Tbilisi’s ma thoroughfare, statg was already booked for a procsn by Orthodox groups to mark Fay Day, an annual event tablished by the Orthodox Church 2014.

In Augt 2016, a lower urt sentenced a right-wg extremist to 10 years’ imprisonment for vlent attacks between 2007 and 2009, cludg throwg Molotov cktails at the hom of socialist MPs and an attack on a gay bar Budapt.

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In July, the ernment abstaed on a rolutn that created a UN expert post to addrs discrimatn agast LGBT persons and voted favor of amendments to weaken the mandate, sayg India’s Supreme Court was still to ci on the issue of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights. In 2017, police raid at least two private gathergs of gay and bisexual men on the pretense of the discrimatory anti-pornography law, which nst gay sex as “viant” and prcrib creased punishments for , and Sharia police publicly flogged two gay men for private, nsensual sex Aceh provce. Surveys of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people reveal that many hi their sexual orientatn or genr inty—cludg to healthre provirs—out of fear of reprisals or discrimatn.

The ernment appealed a 2015 High Court cisn orrg the Non-Governmental Organizatns Board to register the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn (NGLHRC), a civil society group. In Febary 2016, a Syrian refugee, arrted by Lebane Milary Intelligence officers apparently on spicn he was gay, was allegedly tortured while taed at Milary Intelligence, Mistry of Defense, Milary Police, and Jounieh police centers.