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• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

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. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.

SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE

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. 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. Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)The Vagrants and Common Delquents Law (Ley Vagos y Maleant) was modified unr the regime of Francis Fran to prohib homosexual acts, wh a penalty of imprisonment. Current statSce Jul 3, 2005Legal In July of 2005, Spa beme the third untry the world to legalize gay marriage, followg the Netherlands and Belgium.

Informatn regardg blood donatn by MSM durg the Fran dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along wh the practice of homosexualy. (Rters)Last week, Nigeria's Hoe of Reprentativ passed a bill that would crimalize gay marriage, same-sex relatnships, and membership gay rights groups. This week, the Brish Hoe of Lords backed a bill that will allow gay upl to get married both civil and relig ceremoni England and Wal, if two news events occurred jt a few days apart, but they starkly reprent the growg gap views on homosexualy around the world.

Majori many untri Europe, Southeast Asia, Lat Ameri, North Ameri, and Atralia now thk homosexualy should be accepted by society, but much of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Ai still clgs to homophobia, acrdg to a survey of 39 natns released by Pew on are several tertg sights here:1) Views of homosexualy are most posive Europe, pecially Spa (88 percent there say should be accepted by society), Germany (87 percent), and Czech Republic (80 percent). Same-sex marriage is already legal ne European natns, and France recently legalized as well:The lowt numbers by far were Ai -- only 1 percent of Nigerians felt homosexualy should be accepted. 2) In general, the more relig a untry is, the more likely is to reject homosexualy:Rsia and Cha are the clear outliers: predomantly atheist, yet wh jt a few (16 percent and 21 percent of people, rpectively) who say homosexualy should be accepted by society -- a sign that anti-gay prejudice there is cultural and historil, not there are untri that buck the trend the other directn, as well: Conversely, Brazilians and Filipos are nsirably more tolerant of homosexualy than their untri' relatively high levels of religsy would suggt.

3) Though views on homosexualy haven't changed signifintly sce the last time the surveywas nducted 2007, South Korea saw the largt crease the number of people who thought should be acceptable, jumpg om 18 to 39 percent, or 21 percentage pots, jt six years. S., the acceptabily of homosexualy went om beg a mory viewpot -- 49 percent -- to a majory one -- 60 percent -- the same time perd, reprentg the send-largt crease.

)Earlier this month, the AP reported that South Koreans appeared to be easg their opposn to gay marriage when a popular movie director there announced he was marryg his boyiend. Not every untry the world is volved the nversatn surroundg gay marriage, but a large percentage of the world’s natns have eher legalized same-sex marriage, permted gay marriage certa parts of the untry, allows civil unns between dividuals of the same sex, or actively rtricts gay marriage. Of the eighty-eight untri, the number of untri that have legalized gay marriage is a total of twenty-four natns.

That was only eighteen years ago, meang that the legalizatn of gay marriage is an up-and-g change the world as of ls than two s ago. Here are the natns that have already legalized gay marriage, followed by the rpective years which same-sex marriag beme legal.

However, a uple of untri have not pletely legalized gay marriage all throughout the natn, wh same-sex upl only beg able to get married certa areas of said untri. There are only two untri that have not fully legalized gay marriage but have allowed same-sex upl to be wed certa regns wh the untry. The number of untri that have not legalized gay marriage outweighs the number of untri that do, which uld take a turn the oppose directn as natns progrs over time.

Some untri are so adamant about not legalizg gay marriage that they crimalize homosexualy to the full extent of the law. Rsia is an example of a natn that do not necsarily crimalize same-sex upl, but the ernment plac ser rtrictns on people who are gay, which is still a way of censorg relatnships that are not heterosexual. The Spanish parliament today voted to legalise gay marriage spe heavy opposn om the Roman Catholic is now the fourth untry the world to allow same-sex upl the same rights as married heterosexual upl.

Canada approved gay marriag yterday, while the Netherlands and Belgium legalised them 2000 and Methodist church Bra yterday beme the first big Christian nomatn to offer the prospect of blsgs servic for same-sex landmark lg Spa giv married gay upl equal rights to herance and allows them to adopt children. On the day he was nfirmed as prime mister, Mr Zapatero said he would fight discrimatn agast the bate before today's historic vote, Mr Zapatero acknowledged Spa was jog the growg numbers of untri legalisg gay marriag. Four members refed to vote on the senate, where nservativ have the majory, rejected the bill last week, but fal say on legislatn rts wh the church is so opposed to the bill took the rare step of endorsg a rally which hundreds of thoands, cludg 20 bishops, marched through Madrid prottg agast the legislatn on June last year, the spokman for the Spanish bishops nference, Anton Martínez Camo, said that allowg gay marriage was like "imposg a vis on society - somethg false that will have negative nsequenc for social life" rights groups weled today's vote and said the first gay marriag Spa uld take place as soon as 15 days after the law is published Spa's official journal.