20 years of gay marriage the Netherlands: 20 thoand upl

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20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL

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. * gay marriage amsterdam *

“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.

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 *

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.

PRAGMATISM FOR DUTCH ON GAY MARRIAGE

There are 27 untri where gay marriage is legal. * gay marriage amsterdam *

The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL

The Netherlands was the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, but homosexual upl still face obstacl when they wish to have children.

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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. 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.

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20 years of gay marriage the Netherlands: 20 thoand upl .

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