Gay Marriage Around the World | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA
• L'ATRALIE ADOPTE LA LOI SUR LE MARIAGE GAY
• THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE
• L'ATRALIE D "OUI" MARIAGE GAY
• POURQUOI LE MARIAGE GAY N’T T-IL PAS LéGALISé EN ATRALIE ?
• 10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS
• MARIAGE GAY : L'ATRALIE A D OUI !JT 13H
• GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

GAY MARRIAGE: FIRST UPL WED ATRALIA

Melbourne uple Amy and Elise McDonald beme the first gay pair Victoria to legally wed unr new same-sex marriage laws for siar reasons, the Herald Sun surprise weddg at Carlton Garns me about bee the uple had a mment ceremony planned for this weekend. Amerin man's ath Atralia led gay hate crime Laey Carmichael, 51, and Roz Kschke, 46, married shortly after dawn before 65 guts at their home the town of Frankl the island state of early ceremony was maly to avoid the summer heat, Kschke said.

À l'issue d'une nsultatn par voie postale menée entre septembre et novembre, 62% s 12, 7 lns votants s'étaient prononcés en favr d'une légalisatn du mariage gay, ce qui a posé la plupart s parlementair tout bord à rpecter la volonté la majoré la populatn. Le mariage homosexuel éta explicement terd en Atralie puis qu'en 2004, une modifitn du Marriage Act 1961 précisa que le mariage ncerna exclivement l'unn d'un homme et d'une femme. F 2013, une série d'unns entre personn même sexe à Canberra ava été annulée par la Hte Cour stralienne, qui ava timé que l'assemblée législative du terroire Canberra n'ra pas dû toriser le mariage homosexuel, r sl le Parlement ava ce pouvoir.

L'ATRALIE ADOPTE LA LOI SUR LE MARIAGE GAY

L'Atralie rejot donc le club enre rtret s pays ayant adopté une loi torisant le mariage homosexuel, après l'Allemagne, Malte, la Flan (2017), la Colombie (2016), le Groenland (2015), l'Irlan, l États-Unis, le Luxembourg (2014), la Gran-Bretagne (2014), la Nouvelle-Zélan, l'Uguay, la France (2013), le Danemark (2012), l'Argente, l'Islan, le Portugal (2010), la Suè, la Norvège (2009), l'Aique du Sud (2006), l'Espagne, le Canada (2005), la Belgique (2003) et l Pays-Bas (2000). Au Mexique, le mariage gay t torisé dans certas États slement, et le projet du présint nsistant à étendre cette torisatn à l'ensemble du pays sce un important débat. Image source, Getty ImagTwenty years after Tasmania beme the last remag Atralian state to crimalise male homosexualy, the untry is havg s say on same-sex marriage.

Advertisements will also need to be vetted and broadsters mt ensure opposg views are shown or heard on May, Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, Atralia's natnal airle, who is gay, was ambhed durg a speech at a bs breakfast Perth by a man who threw a lemon mergue pie his face. In other untri the policians had the urage to make the cisn as elected members on behalf of the people, " explaed Vce Mchell, a profsor at the Universy of Sydney Bs ptn, Prof Vce Mchell believ the postal ballot will have a cleansg effect on AtraliaAtralia hered anti-gay laws om Brish lonisers, who arrived towards the end of the 18th Century.

THOANDS RALLY FOR GAY MARRIAGE ATRALIA AHEAD OF VOTE

Until 1949, the ath penalty remaed on the statute books for sodomy the southern state of Victoria, but bold legislative change did eventually e September 1975, when South Atralia clared that male homosexualy would no longer be a crime. In between, police arrted more than 50 people at the first Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras para Sydney Mchell believ that, although ntroversial, the postal ballot uld have a cleansg effect on a untry that ntu to harbour unease and mistst about same-sex relatnships. The anti-reform Coaln for Marriage hop to nvce the uncid that should same-sex upl be allowed to marry there would be ser nsequenc for children, who would be exposed to "radil" views on homosexualy schools.

L'ATRALIE D "OUI" MARIAGE GAY

7, 2017SYDNEY, Atralia — Atralia’s Parliament voted overwhelmgly to legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday, overg years of nservative ristance to enact change that the public had ma clear that fal approval the Hoe of Reprentativ, wh jt four vot agast the bill, me three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong public support for gay marriage.

POURQUOI LE MARIAGE GAY N’T T-IL PAS LéGALISé EN ATRALIE ?

Turnbull noted that nothg the legislatn requir misters or other celebrants to oversee weddgs of gay upl or threatens the chary stat of relig groups that oppose same-sex marriage, two ncerns the lawmakers had fal bate the Hoe of Reprentativ, which lasted four days, featured more than 100 the first day, there was a marriage proposal: Tim Wilson, a gay member of Parliament wh the center-right Liberal Party, spoke of the stggl he and his partner, Ryan Bolger, had enuntered as a uple, before chokg up, fdg him the public gallery and askg: “Ryan Patrick Bolger, will you marry me?

”For many lawmakers and gay-rights advot workg behd the scen, the bate took on the feel of a munal reckong wh Atralia’s long history of one pot, Adam Bandt, a Greens Party lawmaker om Melbourne, psed for a moment of silence after referrg to the “nocent blood” of gay Atralians who were hurt durg the long battle for marriage Shorten, lear of the opposn Labor Party, asked for fivens “for the long lay, for the jtic and the digni both great and small. “The nversatn around marriage equaly was beg domated by those who were agast , ” said Tristan Meecham, the artistic director of the performance pany All the Queens Men and the founr of the Comg Back Out Ball, meant to enurage olr gay Atralians not to return to the out of the discsn, he add, were issu that go beyond marriage, such as the way olr men and women al wh earlier trmas tied to prejudice and gay bashg, or suici among teenagers alg wh issu of genr and sexualy. ”In many untri where same-sex marriage is already legal, the tangible effects of stutnal acceptance have bee more visible, and posive, studi have study published earlier this year, the journal JAMA Pediatrics, found that rcg societal stigma through marriage legalizatn had led to a 14 percent rctn suici attempts among lbian, gay and bisexual Wolfson said that both the Uned Stat and Spa, which legalized same-sex marriage 2005, polls have found support for same-sex marriage growg stead of dimishg, a sign of the laws’ posive effects.

10 GREAT ATRALIAN GAY FILMS

[nL4N1LB1TJ]Rally aniser Anthony Wallace om activist group Equal Love said 15, 000 people attend the event, makg one of the largt gay rights ralli Atralian history. L Atraliens ont résolument d "oui" mariage gay, selon l résultats d'un vote postal qui ont donné li mercredi à s maniftatns joie à travers le pays mais qui doivent enre être entérés par la loi. Cx-ci vont tenter d'obtenir s changements législatifs pour permettre x entrepris anisatric mariag refer s upl homosexuels ou x parents retirer lrs enfants s él portant attete à lrs yx x valrs Premier mistre et l'opposn travailliste sont favorabl à un projet loi pl simple qui légalisera le mariage gay tout en permettant à certa stutns religis refer marier l upl homosexuels si ell sont ntre le prcipe.

Selon un sondage réalisé près s parlementair fédérx par le groupe médias Atralian Broadstg Corporatn, 72% s membr la Chambre s représentants et 69% s sénatrs voteraient pour changer la le vote nstue une victoire historique yx s défensrs s dros LGBTIQ (lbienn, gays, bisexuels, trans, tersex et queer), il a ssi révélé profons divisns sociétal. Avant même l'envoi du matériel vote en septembre, le débat ava pris une tournure nséabon avec s affich "Arrêtez l pédés" à Melbourne et s tracts décrivant l'homosexualé me étant une "malédictn la mort" à Sydney. En effet, selon le lear l’opposn travailliste, Bill Shorten, un tel référendum sera “clivant et ûtx”, et pourra accentuer l tensns se la populatn stralienne, voire même être profable x anti-mariage gay.

MARIAGE GAY : L'ATRALIE A D OUI !JT 13H

Thirteen years after changg the Marriage Act to explicly forbid same-sex unns, feral policians voted to undo the last major piece of discrimatn agast gay and lbian followed last month's emphatic rolutn of the Atralian public the postal survey to jo the rt of the English-speakg world by embracg marriage vote the Hoe of Reprentativ, mut before 6pm on Thursday, me after last week's vote the Senate, meang the law has now passed both ho of Parliament. Government gay marriage supporters Tim Wilson and Warren Entsch embrace as Trent Zimmerman watch Alex EllghsenAttorney-General Gee Brandis advised the law would formally change on Saturday, allowg same-sex upl to lodge a Notice of Intend Marriage om this mimum notice perd is one month, meang the first legally regnised same-sex weddg uld take place on January 9. "While gay rights mpaigners have fought for marriage equaly for s, the direct path to Thursday's vote began two years ago when the former Abbott ernment announced would settle the qutn of same-sex marriage by a public Turnbull ntued that policy, but was blocked by opponents the Senate.

GAY MARRIAGE

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.

GAY MARRIAGE: THEOLOGIL AND MORAL ARGUMENTS

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. The Adventur of Priscilla, Queen of the Dert (1994)While same-sex marriage was only ma legal Atralia 2017, the untry has a fairly strong rerd on LGBT rights, and Sydney is one of the most gay-iendly ci the world.

The Set (1970) is the first Atralian film wh homosexualy as a central theme, while gay men appeared sexploatn favour such as Atralia after Dark (1975) and The ABCs of Love and Sex: Atralia Style (1978), which H was for homosexualy. Sign up to BFI Flare emailsGet the latt #BFIFlare news and ticket release Max 2: The Road Warrr (1981) featured a gay villa (the leather-clad Wez, enraged by the slayg of his lover), while more sympathetic homosexual characters appeared prison drama Stir (1980) and fay melodrama Mull (1988).