Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• WHO'S AAID OF GAY MARRIAGE?
• ARE THE GAYS DTROYG SNDAVIA?
• WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?
• DENMARK: EQUAL MARRIAGE LAWS FOR GAY UPL E TO EFFECT TODAY
• RSIAN GAY UPLE CLAIM THEIR MARRIAGE WAS REGNIZED RSIA, BUT THERE’S A TCH

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

In 1933 where people everywhere else the world were by shamg homosexualy – sexual activy between non-bary dividuals got crimalized.

The founrs of the anizatn Alex Axgil and Eigil Axgil were the first gay uple the world to entered a registered partnership Copenhagen Pri is the largt annual ftival for LGBTQ people. But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag.

A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a woman.He said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough".He said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'".When Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3,000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance blossomed.Three years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS COULD REMOVE IT NEXT YEAR

Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos".He relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife."Danny Beard on Same Sex Love and MarriageDanny explor same-sex weddgs, fdg out why upl chose to get married, the challeng unrpng this cisn and what mak the wedd relatnships work.The uple said they now wanted to help people who were not as ee and strive for "equaly for everyone"."Now I'm here a safe place I want to fight for others to be able to marry who they want," Adam said."I'm so lucky but I want everyone else Sdi to marry the one they love whout facg discrimatn and persecutn." Image source, Fay photographImage ptn, Peter McGrah and David Cabreza say they are "very proud" to have been the first same-sex uple married EnglandMore than 40,000 same-sex marriag took place between 2014 and 2020, acrdg to the Office for Natnal StatisticsPeter McGrah and David Cabreza, origally om Stland and the US, ma history when they beme the first same-sex uple to marry England on 29 March 2014.The trailblazers married jt after midnight at Islgton Town Hall. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage"."It was so sweet seeg him so happy," Mr Cabreza said. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years 2020, Nevada beme the first state to ensure the right to same-sex marriage s state nstutn.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U. Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor.

The se ma s way to the US Supreme Court, which dismissed an appeal 2013 over same-sex marriage on jurisdictnal grounds, lg private parti did not have standg to fend California’s voter-approved ballot measure barrg gay and lbian upl om state-sanctned wedlock. Actually, there is no difference between a gay marriage Denmark for foreigners or any other group of people (Dan, Germans, straight, etc. But you n still get married here, even if your home untry will not regnise too, that even EU untri which do not regnise same sex marriage, like Poland, they are still obliged to honour the terms of the EU Directive on Freedom of movement, and grant rincy rights to gay spo (although practice uld take a battle to make happen).

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Frequently Asked QutnsEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LGBTQ+ MARRIAGE IN DENMARK…and see the ma FAQ page for subjects which apply to all uplIs gay marriage legal Denmark? Y, a gay marriage Denmark is absolutely legal, and is valid worldwi, although some untri still of urse do not regnise same-sex marriage.

The topic is still taboo here, but thgs are slowly changg as well and the regnn of foreign gay marriag is still an ongog procs”.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

For gay upl, surprisgly, even EU untri which do not regnise gay marriage (such as Poland) are obliged to regnise the spoe’s right to live and work the EU – but you might face a battle to w that one about divorce, if my untry do not regnise the marriage the first place? 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.

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.

Same-Sex Marriage Legalizatn by CountryThe Dutch triggered a polil and social shift that has spread across large swaths of the take part the gay pri nga, May 13, 2023, Havana. Ecuador legally regnized same-sex marriage after a majory of judg s hight urt led favor of a gay uple sug the untry’s civil registry. Prime Mister Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay, supported the measure and beme the first lear of the European Unn to marry his partner.

WHO'S AAID OF GAY MARRIAGE?

Icelandic Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir ma history Febary 2009 when she beme the untry's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of marriage beme legal Swen on May 1, 2009, followg the enactment of a marriage law passed by the Swedish Parliament early April. The ia behd the law, he said, was above all to offer fancial secury for homosexual men, allowg them to her om each other at a time when AIDS was spreadg fast.

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. The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support gay marriage. ) But most s, legislatn has been bterly ntent — wns the 2005 mass protts staged by relig and nservative groups Spa, or California's November 2008 repeal of gay marriage via referendum.

In Denmark, where opn polls om the time showed only 25% of the public opposed , the gay-marriage bill passed on May 26, 1989 wh a clear majory.

ARE THE GAYS DTROYG SNDAVIA?

Three years after World War II, when Axel Lundahl-Madsen (he would later change his surname to Axgil, a batn of his and Eigil's given nam) helped found the first Danish gay-rights anizatn, even the word homosexual was still taboo, which is why the group lled self the Associatn of '48.

For the first time, policians were actually meetg gay men and lbian women, and realizg they weren't any different om straight people. It prohibs homosexuals om adoptg children, for example, and refers to the sanctned relatnships as "registered partnerships" rather than marriag.

WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNTRY TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE?

And activists are still workg to achieve adoptn rights and the right to wed church for gay upl — to say nothg of the right to ll their relatnships marriag. While the new legislatn guaranteeg that right is far om perfect – for example, don’t allow a Taiwane person to marry a same-sex natnal of another untry where same-sex marriage is not legal – is the first legislatn legalizg same-sex marriage any Asian heterosexual upl enjoy the right to marry, adopt children, and receive their partners’ pensn benefs after ath, homosexual upl many untri face discrimatn all of the pile the untri where same-sex marriage is officially legal, 24/7 Wall St. Study has shown that heterosexual upl divorce at higher rat than homosexual upl, wh some stat havg lower divorce rat than others, and wh each state, plac where more people are gettg divorced.

14, 2006, two weeks before the adle, Parliament voted to remove rtrictns to gay marriage an overwhelmg majory vote of 230 to 41. The untry's Prime Mister at the time, Social Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir, was the first openly gay head of state the world, and soon after the bill passed she married her long-time partner one of the first same-sex marriag Iceland.

Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Mister, Xavier Bettel, took advantage of the laws he helped champn and married his partner that same year. 1, 2017Malta, a small Catholic natn that was the first untry Europe to ban gay nversn therapy, legalized same-sex marriage 2017. 1, 2019From 2010, gay and lbian upl Atria uld form civil partnerships, but a 2017 urt cisn led that civil partnerships were discrimatory.

DENMARK: EQUAL MARRIAGE LAWS FOR GAY UPL E TO EFFECT TODAY

But former Attorney General Robert Abrams on several ocsns, cludg high-profile s volvg gay rights, nced the unnstutnaly of state laws. A lot of voters fear that gay marriage would be a risky social experiment, wh possibly harsh nsequenc for the imperiled stutn of marriage self. As we disvered Sndavia, gay marriage keeps relatnships stronger, strengthens fai, protects children, promot tolerance, and n even lead to benefs on a natnal the other hand, Sndavian registered partnerships were the rult of legislative actn, not judicial validatn.

RSIAN GAY UPLE CLAIM THEIR MARRIAGE WAS REGNIZED RSIA, BUT THERE’S A TCH

This would allow ample time for the Legislature to engage a public bate about the issue and, perhaps, break s the end of such a procs, we have learned om Sndavia, Vermont, and Massachetts, many fewer cizens and their lears would be aaid of gay marriage.

Whether you're nsirg studyg anphone Montreal, pure Pacific Northwt Vanuver, or smopolan, happeng Toronto (also rated as beg one of the top gay-iendly plac the world), 's easy to feel at home as an LGBTQ person Canada.