BBC News - Gay marriage around the world

Contents:

• MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX
• ‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY
• 12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI
• 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
• GAY MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• RELATNSHIP FACTORS ASSOCIATED WH GAY MALE COUPL’ CONRDANCE ON ASPECTS OF THEIR SEXUAL AGREEMENTS: ESTABLISHMENT, TYPE, AND ADHERENCE
• RIGHTS COLLI AS TOWN CLERK SISTEPS ROLE GAY MARRIAG
• GAY UPL SAY ‘I DO’ ENGLAND AND WAL

MY HBAND IS GAY BUT WE’RE MARRIED WH TWO KIDS AND HAVE GREAT SEX

Hodg legalized gay marriage natnwi, cludg the 14 stat that did not prevly allow gays and lbians to wed.

‘SAME STREET’ TRODUC S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPLE, MAKG A BOLD STATEMENT FOR LGBTQ VISIBILY

Adults (37%) favored allowg gays and lbians to wed 2009, a share that rose to 62% 2017. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996). 4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.

The first natn to legalize gay marriage was the Netherlands, which did so 2000. Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage. And May 2019, Taiwan beme the first untry Asia to allow gays and lbians to legally wed.

It was an excg day for gay upl who had been hopg to legally tie-the-knot (and an excg day for everyone who believ #loveislove), and we're celebratg wh a pri-filled celebry weddg roundup. By the way, Ellen announced her plans to wed Portia durg a tapg of The Ellen Show, after California's Supreme Court reversed their ban on gay marriage. Lance and Michael ma history as the first gay uple to have their weddg televised on Amerin TV, and their special, Lance Lov Michael: The Lance Bass Weddg, is fely worth watchg.

12 GAY COUPL HOLLYWOOD WHO HAVE THE MOST ROMANTIC LOVE STORI

Comedian Wanda Syk and her wife, Alex, got hched 2008 (a month before Wanda me out as gay). The uple are pretty private about their relatnship, but Wanda did open up about her thoughts on the ristance toward gay marriage beg legalized.

A woman has revealed how she’s married to a gay man and the pair have two young kids together. The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women”.

20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL

Brynn met Matthew for the first time at church early 2016 and jt a few dat , he revealed he was gay. Matthew had known he was attracted to men sce he was a teenager, but he belonged to the Church which do not enurage homosexual relatnships.

The mom-of-two, who liv Ypsilanti, Michigan said: “He looked straight at me and said ‘Brynn, I’m gay. I thk that many more people are gay, bi, pan, or other, than have ma that known openly. “I’ve heard gay men say that they n’t even image tryg to be sexual wh a woman, and I have never felt that way.

GAY MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD

The mom-of-two scrib herself as straight while her hband Matthew intifi as gay or pansexual, admtg he is “more attracted to men than women. While Brynn is a straight woman, Matthew’s sexualy isn’t lear and he has intified as gay, pansexual and bisexual. This week, the inic children’s show dropped a very special episo lled “Fay Day, ” troducg two gay dads, Frank and Dave (the brother of Na, who works as a bike store owner on the street), and their dghter, Transcript[MUSIC PLAYING].

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Love is the air at this time of year, so ’s a great opportuny to celebrate some of the gay upl Hollywood who have the cutt and most romantic love stori. For many gay upl, beg able to be together openly and walk down the aisle is a big al. They met a gay nng club 1984 and was Takei who ma the first move after he asked Altman to help him tra for a marathon.

They also beme the first openly gay uple to pete on The Newlywed Game 2009. They started hostg weddgs after their own venue told them — the week of their weddg — that would not acmodate a gay uple.

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.

RELATNSHIP FACTORS ASSOCIATED WH GAY MALE COUPL’ CONRDANCE ON ASPECTS OF THEIR SEXUAL AGREEMENTS: ESTABLISHMENT, TYPE, AND ADHERENCE

The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years. Helene Faasen, left, and Anne-Marie Th tied the knot the first legal gay marriage ceremony. France is the latt and supporters of gay marriage hope will soon clear the fal legal hurdl Bra.

Jt after midnight on 1 April 2001, four upl - Anne-Marie Th and Helene Faasen, and three male upl - were married by the mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, the first legal gay marriage ceremony the world.

But was left to the Netherlands to lead the way allowg gay marriage, which clud grantg same-sex upl the right to adopt children. It was a move weled by ternatnal gay rights groups as a huge step forward.

RIGHTS COLLI AS TOWN CLERK SISTEPS ROLE GAY MARRIAG

Vatin terventnA few weeks after neighbours Belgium followed the Netherlands' example June 2003, the Vatin - an attempt to stop further legislatn - lnched a global mpaign agast gay marriage. In a strongly-word 12-page document, Pope John Pl II's chief theologil adviser, Cardal Joseph Ratzger - who would go on to bee Pope Benedict XVI - warned that homosexual unns were immoral, unnatural and harmful. E Menenz and his Amerin partner of 30 years, Carlos Batur German, beme the first gay uple to tie the knot Spa, at a ceremony Tr Cantos, outsi Madrid, on 11 July 2005.

Wh the US reluctant to follow - a feral law still prevents US regnn of gay marriage and many stat have enacted outright bans - thoands of gay Amerins have vised Canada to get married sce 2003. Court lgSouth Ai, November 2006, beme the first Ain untry to brg marriage for gay upl - spe homosexualy remag taboo large parts of the ntent. In January 2009, Norway beme the sixth untry to troduce gay marriage followed, May of the the same year, by Swen, while a further three untri followed su 2010.

GAY UPL SAY ‘I DO’ ENGLAND AND WAL

Divorced mothers Tera Pir and Helena Paixao beme the first gay uple to marry Portugal, June 2010 - a month after the law they had mpaigned for me to effect - and hailed as a "great victory, a dream e te". Later that month, Iceland's Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her partner, wrer Jona Leosdottir, on the day the untry's gay marriage law me to force. In July 2010, meanwhile, Argenta beme the first untry Lat Ameri to legalise gay marriage.

And June 2012, Denmark beme the 11th untry to approve same-sex marriage - 23 years after beme the first untry the world to regnise gay civil partnerships.

In the same month, spe ep divisns on the issue, the French Natnal Assembly approved gay marriage legislatn. Whether married or not, many gay relatnships beg to "open up" after the first few years. In the book, we'll follow two upl as they explore how to handle the sire for sex outsi their gay upl do want monogamy.