Exactly 20 years ago, one lbian uple and three gay upl tied the knot Amsterdam's cy hall - makg history as the Netherlands beme the first untry to allow same-sex marriage, a step sce followed by nearly 30 other natns.
Contents:
- 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
- GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS
- AMSTERDAM’S GAY WEDDG ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND
- PRAGMATISM FOR DUTCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
- GAY AMSTERDAM
20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
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“Nearly 30 untri followed the Netherlands, ” he said, “so that’s really very nice — very good for the gay people and for society as a whole, I thk, bee ’s important that everyone society feels at home.
GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands beme the first untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. 20,000 gay upl are now married. * gay marriage amsterdam *
”Henk Krol, a former edor of the Netherlands’ largt gay newspaper, this week lled same-sex marriage the untry’s “most betiful tangible export. “But we know om newspaper, televisn and people we speak [to] that there still are homophobic people and there is some aggrsn to gay people. “We wish all gay people the world that they n have a life as we n live.
At the start of this year, the Netherlands had 20 thoand gay upl. Until the troductn of gay marriage 2001, same-sex upl uld only formalise their relatnship through a registered partnership.
Even after gay marriage was troduced, relatively many same-sex upl have been optg for a registered partnership stead of a marriage. Sce 2015, the share of gay upl optg for a partnership has creased.
AMSTERDAM’S GAY WEDDG ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND
One of the biggt chang the veloped world over the past 20 years has been the expansn of gay rights and the acceptance of the LGBT muny. In the U.S., a poll nducted 2004 found that Amerins opposed gay marriage by a marg of 60% to 31%. By 2019, those numbers had flipped wh 6... * gay marriage amsterdam *
The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years.
The Netherlands was the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, but homosexual upl still face obstacl when they wish to have children. Eleven years after the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, homosexual upl still marry far ls often than heterosexual upl, partly bee they still face obstacl when they wish to have children. Jt 20% of Dutch homosexual upl are married, pared wh 80% of heterosexual upl, h figur by Statistics Netherlands show.
PRAGMATISM FOR DUTCH ON GAY MARRIAGE
There are 27 untri where gay marriage is legal. * gay marriage amsterdam *
Sce April 2001, when the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, some 15, 000 gay and lbian upl have tied the knot. “The figur show that over the past 10 years gay and lbian upl have been behavg the same way as straight upl”, mographer Jan Latten of Statistics Netherlands says.
But, jt as wh straight upl, the sire to have children and the rultg legal rponsibili often weigh even more for gay and lbian upl. This uld expla why gay upl marry ls often than straight on.
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL
Gay upl, pecially gay men, still face nsirable difficulti when they want to adopt children.
The siari between gay and lbian upl do not end there. And both gay and straight upl prefer to tie the knot the sprg or the summer.
The world’s first gay weddg took place at midnight on 1 April 2001, when Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen married four same-sex upl. 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.
GAY AMSTERDAM
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.