This was the world's first legal same-sex weddgDate: April 1, 2001Dutch uple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker ma historywhen they married on April 1st, 2001Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, GERT KASTEEL AND DOLF PASKER, SAYING:KASTEEL: "All the square was filled wh..."PASKER: "Cameras and journalists."JOURNALIST: "How did you feel?"KASTEEL: "Happy, very happy."PASKER: "A b nervo."KASTEEL: "No!"PASKER: "A ltle b."KASTEEL: "Maybe."Lotn: Wep, NetherlandsThe Netherlands was the first untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage 2001It's now legal nearly 30 natns(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE HALF OF ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, DOLF PASKER, SAYING:"It's nicer to say to other people: "He's my hband, he's my man." And 's natural to say so, otherwise I have to say, "He's my partner' or "He's my iend." And has also helped me to accept myself."Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER EDITOR OF DUTCH GAY MAGAZINE 'GAY KRANT', NOW LAWMAKER, HENK KROL, SAYING:"Well helped a lot bee I was workg parliament, so I knew all the key figur. // And then, at that moment, everybody the Netherlands said to me 'The Netherlands will be the first and the last untry, the rt of the world won't follow you'. And you see what is happeng right now, almost 30 untri the whole world followed the Dutch example. And I uld tell about Taiwan, Canada, South Ai, Ameri, Spa and 's so good to see that almost every civilized untry followed the Dutch way."
Contents:
- 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
- GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS
- LOVE IS LOVE: GAY MARRIAGE POSSIBLE FOR DUTCH MONARCH
- THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday. * gay marriage netherlands *
At the start of this year, the Netherlands had 20 thoand gay upl.
GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS
In the untry that first legalised gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the prime mister said on Tuday. * gay marriage netherlands *
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.
LOVE IS LOVE: GAY MARRIAGE POSSIBLE FOR DUTCH MONARCH
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * gay marriage netherlands *
Sce 2015, the share of gay upl optg for a partnership has creased. The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years. Majory of married gay upl Amsterdam.
THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE
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 netherlands *
Sce then, over 15, 000 homosexual upl have married.
Nowadays several other untri Europe (such as Spa and Belgium) have also provid for gay marriage, but same-sex upl should always bear md that their marriage and s nsequenc will not be accepted every untry.
GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
LGBT Rights Netherlands: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay marriage netherlands *
In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday. Gay marriage was legalized the Netherlands 2001.
Rutte said that one issue remas unrolved: how a gay marriage would affect later succsn of the royal uple’s children.
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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
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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.
This uld expla why gay upl marry ls often than straight on. Gay upl, pecially gay men, still face nsirable difficulti when they want to adopt children.
Gay Marriage Countri - A list of where gay marriage is legal and what you need to do to satisfy the requirements to be legally married. * gay marriage netherlands *
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.