Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry.
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THE FIRST COUNTRI TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands beme the first untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. 20,000 gay upl are now married. * netherlands first country to legalize gay marriage *
By last year, that figured had reached Ai, where relig and cultural tradns often own on homosexualy, no untry appears on track to soon jo South Ai legalizg same-sex suatn is more fluid Asia. The lg has no immediate legal effect, but activists say uld fluence other urt s and boost their qut for parliamentary bate on allowg same-sex stck down a lonial-era law 2018 that ma gay sex punishable by up to 10 years prison, and there are some openly gay celebri.
But same-sex marriage remas illegal; the ernment says gay and lbian upl don’t warrant the stat of “fay un. Supreme Court volvg a nservative Christian baker who refed to make a weddg ke for a gay uple. In July of 2010, Argenta beme the first Lat Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriag, attributg Argente gay people the same maral rights as the natn's heterosexuals.
One of the leadg proponents of same-sex marriag was the Print of the untry, Crista Fernánz Kirchner, who nstantly fought for regnn of the rights of the homosexuals, though agast the will of the Roman Catholic Church. The untry, then head by a Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who openly clared herself to be gay, met ltle polil ristance passg this law.
WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?
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Currently, Iceland is regard as one of the most gay-iendly untri the world, wh a large number of foreign same-sex upl visg Iceland to get married there. Swen was th one of the first few untri to signate legally regnized partnership rights to gay upl the mid 1990s, and also allowed such upl to adopt children as early as 2002.
The Lutheran Church of Swen had agreed to bls gay partnerships sce 2007, but were not yet ready to allow gay weddgs their church.