Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry.
Contents:
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
- IN LUXEMBOURG, GAY PREMIER MARRI, FIRST FOR EU
- ON GAY MARRIAGE, EUROPE STRAS TO SQUARE 27 INTERTS
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
* gay marriage in european union *
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.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Northern Ireland is the 18th European jurisdictn to legalize gay marriage. The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support gay marriage.
Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high. In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years.
IN LUXEMBOURG, GAY PREMIER MARRI, FIRST FOR EU
Attacks on the gay muny persist.
Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se. Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts.
ON GAY MARRIAGE, EUROPE STRAS TO SQUARE 27 INTERTS
He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views. “Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn. ”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn.