Opponents of gay marriage France have waged a more effective mpaign than many expected but may be fightg a losg battle, the BBC's Hugh Schofield reports.
Contents:
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- WHERE IS GAY MARRIAGE STILL ILLEGAL EUROPE?
- WHICH UNTRI EUROPE ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
- 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
- FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay mariage in europe *
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.
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.
Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed. 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.
WHERE IS GAY MARRIAGE STILL ILLEGAL EUROPE?
Here are some of the most gay-iendly untri Europe where LGBTQ+ travelers n enjoy a safe vis. * gay mariage in europe *
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. 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. While the right to marry has been legalised 30 untri, homosexualy remas banned many parts of the world.
- Europe, gay marriage pneers - On October 1, 1989, for the first time the world, several gay upl Denmark tied the knot civil unns, which while givg their relatnships a legal standg fell short of full was the Netherlands that first allowed gay marriag, givg more rights April then 16 European untri have followed su acceptg gay marriag: Atria, Belgium, Bra, Denmark, Fland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spa, Swen and most recently European untri allow only weaker civil partnerships for the LGBTQ muny -- cludg Croatia, Cyps, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia, which rejected gay marriag a 2015 referendum.
On October 1, 1989, for the first time the world, gay upl Denmark tied the knot legal civil unns, but would have to wa until 2012 to be allowed to marry church LISELOTTE SABROE SCANPIX DENMARK/AFP/File.
WHICH UNTRI EUROPE ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE?
In Romania a referendum aimed at enshrg a ban on gay marriage the nstutn failed 2018 bee of a low turnout. Progrs the AmerisCanada was the first Amerin untry to thorise same-sex marriage 2015 the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage natnwi at a time when was banned 14 out of 50 stat. However the Uned Stat' first gay marriage actually took place 1971, when a Mnota uple obtaed a marriage licence thanks to an overlooked legal loophole.
9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
In 2015 the US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage natnwi at a time was banned 14 out of 50 stat Yana Paskova GETTY/AFP/File.
Mexi's feral pal thorised gay marriag 2009. Half of s 32 stat have legalised gay civil unns 2015, and s ngrs on Tuday passed a bill legalisg full-blown same-sex left chang that would have paved the way for legal same-sex marriage out of s new nstutn adopted 2019. Taiwan, first AsiaWhile much of Asia is tolerant of homosexualy, May 2019 Taiwan beme the first the regn to allow gay Japan, a urt northern Sapporo led 2021 that the untry's failure to regnise same-sex marriage is unnstutnal, a landmark first verdict on the issue.
Atralia (2017) and New Zealand (2013) are the only plac the wir Asia-Pacific regn to have passed gay marriage the Middle East, where homosexualy is reprsed, Israel leads the way terms of gay rights, regnisg same-sex marriag that are sealed elsewhere although not allowg such unns the untry self. While much of Asia is tolerant of homosexualy, Taiwan beme May 2019 the first the regn to allow gay marriage Sam YEH AFP/File. Several untri the nservative regn still have the ath penalty for homosexualy, cludg Sdi Arabia and the Uned Arab marriage one untrySouth Ai is the sole natn on the Ain ntent to allow gay marriage, which legalised 30 Ain untri ban homosexualy, wh Mrania, Somalia and Sudan havg the ath penalty for same-sex relatns.
FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
But the small hours of April 1, 2001, somethg unprecented happened after the stroke of midnight at Cy Hall, the mayor of Amsterdam married four upl, each of whom happened to be gay, as the Netherlands – havg passed the law the year before – beme the first untry the world to nduct same-sex marriag. Last year, Poland's Print Andrzej Duda was re-elected after mpaigng agast gay rights, which he lled "stctive.
We look at the European untri where gay marriage is legal, illegal and banned. So, where Europe is gay marriage legal?