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.
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- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
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 legal around the world *
Andorra 2023EuropeParliament the small mountao untry between France and Spa voted to legalize same-sex marriage.Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry.Atralia 2017Asia-PacificVoters supported legalizg same-sex marriage by a 61.6% to 38.4% marg a non-bdg natnwi referendum.Atria 2019EuropeA urt lg 2017 eventually led to the change.Belgium 2003EuropeSend untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after s neighbor, the Netherlands.Brazil 2013Lat Ameri-CaribbeanAbout half of Brazil’s 27 jurisdictns had allowed same-sex marriage until a urt lg ma legal natnwi.Canada 2005North AmeriSame-sex marriage was legal a majory of Canada’s provc before Parliament passed natnal legislatn.
Chile 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanSixth South Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriage.Colombia 2016Lat Ameri-CaribbeanColombia’s Constutnal Court legalized same-sex marriage by a 6-3 vote.Costa Ri 2020Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst Central Amerin untry to legalize same-sex marriage.Cuba 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanChange allowg same-sex marriage was part of a broar referendum on fay law that passed by a 66.9% to 33.1% vote.Denmark 2012EuropeSame-sex marriage beme legal through a separate procs Greenland, an tonomo terrory of Denmark, 2016.Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.Fland 2017EuropeThe law, passed by Parliament 2014, started out as a “cizens’ iative” – a public petn wh nearly 167,000 signatur. It me to effect 2017.France 2013EuropeThen-French Print François Hollan signed the law after an unsuccsful urt challenge.Germany 2017EuropeLegislatn passed after then-Chancellor Angela Merkel said members of her lg Christian Democratic Unn should vote their nscience even though the party formally opposed same-sex marriage.Iceland 2010EuropeAfter the law took effect, the untry’s prime mister at the time, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, wed her longtime partner, Jónína Leósdóttir, beg one of the first people to marry unr the statute.Ireland 2015EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage through a popular referendum, wh more than six--ten Irish voters (62%) favor.Luxembourg 2015EuropeThe bill was champned by the untry’s prime mister, Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay.Malta 2017EuropeParliament almost unanimoly voted to legalize same-sex marriage.Mexi 2022Lat Ameri-CaribbeanSame-sex marriage eventually beme legal natnally after the Supreme Court clared state bans unnstutnal 2015. Netherlands2001EuropeFirst untry to legalize same-sex marriage after Parliament passed the law December 2000.New Zealand 2013Asia-PacificFirst untry the Asia-Pacific regn to allow gays and lbians to wed.Norway 2009EuropeThe law replaced a 1993 statute permtg civil unns.
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Sgapore announced on Sunday that will repeal a law crimalisg gay sex but many other parts of the world homosexualy is illegal and sometim subject to the ath penalty." emprop="scriptn * gay marriage legal around the world *
Portugal 2010EuropeMeasure passed by Parliament was approved by Portugal’s Constutnal Court.Slovenia 2022EuropeFirst untry formerly munist Eastern Europe to legalize same-sex marriage.South Ai 2006Sub-Saharan AiOnly Ain untry where same-sex marriage is legal; several untri on the ntent have passed laws that ban homosexualy recent years.Spa 2005EuropeBeme the third untry globally to legalize same-sex marriage after a vote s closely divid Parliament.Swen 2009EuropeGay and lbian upl Swen prevly had been allowed to register for civil unns sce 1995.Swzerland 2022EuropeNearly two-thirds of Swiss voters (64.1%) st ballots favor of legalizg same-sex marriage a 2021 referendum.Taiwan 2019Asia-PacificA urt lg prompted a change the law that ma Taiwan the first jurisdictn Asia to perm gays and lbians to wed.Uned Kgdom 2014EuropeLegal same-sex marriage took effect Northern Ireland 2020, six years after the change England and Wal. 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.
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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
The untri of Argenta, Atralia, Atria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Fland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Ai, Spa, Swen, the Uned Stat of Ameri, and Uguay have legalized 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. Sce then, however, Hungarian lawmakers and populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban have passed several anti-LGBTQ+ laws, cludg on that prohib same-sex upl om adoptg children and ban any ntent emed to promote beg gay or transgenr om beg distributed to people unr the age of eighteen.
A crime AiAround 30 Ain untri ban homosexualy, wh Mrania, Somalia and Sudan havg the ath penalty for same-sex Ai is the sole natn on the Ain ntent to allow gay marriage, which legalised sex is crimalised only a handful of untri: Angola, Lotho, Mozambique and the East: reprsedSeveral untri the nservative regn still have the ath penalty for homosexualy, cludg Sdi Arabia and the Uned Arab leads the way terms of gay rights, regnisg same-sex marriag that are performed elsewhere although not allowg such unns the untry self. Thailand June took a step towards same-sex marriage when lawmakers gave ial approval to legalisg same-sex 2018, India's Supreme Court crimalised gay marriage and adoptn are allowed New Zealand and, gay marriage pneersThe Netherlands 2001 beme the first untry the world to allow gay upl to then, 17 European untri have followed: Atria, Belgium, Bra, Denmark, Fland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spa, Swen, Slovenia and untri allow only gay civil partnerships, cludg the Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyps, Estonia, Greece, Hungary and Rsia, homosexualy was nsired a crime up to 1993 and a mental illns until 1999. Progrs the AmerisCanada was the first Amerin untry to thorise same-sex marriage and adoptns 2005, and 10 years later the Uned Stat legalised gay marriage Lat Ameri, Argenta, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Costa Ri, Chile and Uguay allow same-sex 's feral pal was the pneer the regn, thorisg gay civil unns 2007 and marriag 2009.
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”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.