As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- MOSW GAY MAP
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Equalx is a llaborative knowledge base for the LGBTQ+ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) movement, visualizg LGBTQ+ rights through maps, timel, and data. * map of countries where gay marriage is legal *
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.
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. 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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* map of countries where gay marriage is legal *
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.
As our chart shows, Chile is only the seventh untry Lat Amerin and the 34th untry worldwi allowg homosexual partners to first untry officially tegorizg same-sex partners as eligible for marriage was the Netherlands, a untry known for s progrsive stance on sexualy and LGBTQI+ issu. Out of the 71 plac outlawg same-sex relatns, the majory is suated the Middle East, Ai and Asia, wh 11 of the untri even imposg the ath penalty on private, nsensual homosexual activy.
COUNTRI MOST ACCEPTG OF GAY MARRIAGE
Worldwi, most of the untri that allow gay marriage are Wtern Europe. In the Ameris, five untri have legalized gay marriage. * map of countries where gay marriage is legal *
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COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.
“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30. LIMA (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated.
Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay.
MOSW GAY MAP
Polil Cartoons on World Lears The Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years. The Uned Kgdom’s Parliament London recently legalized same-sex marriage Northern Ireland, which had been the last UK nstuent untry to bar gay and lbian upl om marryg.
Other European untri wh signifint populatn supportg gay marriage are Fland (66); Czech Republic (65); Malta (65); Netherlands (64); Ireland (64); Spa (64); Italy (56); UK (56); Atria (55); Portugal (53). Two gay marriage bills were tabled before the Legislative Yuan October 2016 which triggered a wave of protts both opposn and those support.