Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unns | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE LAW TO EFFECT STLAND
• ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• GAY MARRIAGE
• U.S. REP. STT PERRY VOT FAVOR OF BILL THAT WOULD PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL

GAY MARRIAGE LAW TO EFFECT STLAND

Current statSce Jan 12, 2000Legal The Brish ary actively recs gay men and lbians, all three servic have ployed recg teams to gay pri events, and punish any stance of tolerance or bullyg.

The Royal Navy advertis for recs gay magaz and has allowed gay sailors to hold civil partnership ceremoni on board ships and, sce 2006, to march full naval uniform at a gay pri march. Brish Army and Royal Air Force personnel uld march but had to wear civilian cloth until 2008, now all ary personnel are permted to attend Gay Pri march donatns by MSMs Stland? Existg civil partnerships n now be nverted to a marriage and other same-sex upl n give notice of their tentn to new legislatn was ed for the first time shortly after midnight when one uple upgrad their civil partnership at the Brish nsulate first gay weddgs Stland will take place on Hogmanay.

ILLEGAL TO BE GAY - STLAND'S HISTORY

"Image ptn, Leanne and Marie Banks were one of the first gay upl Stland to bee marriedThe uple earlier said: "We always nsired our civil partnership to be our marriage, but the ey of the law and society wasn't held the same regard.

"'Day of celebratn'One of the first gay upl to bee married Stland were Leanne and Marie were at Dune Registrars' office at 08:45 to sign the documents.

"Image source, ThkstockImage ptn, The first gay weddgs Stland will take place on 31 DecemberCol Macfarlane, director of Stonewall Stland, said: "Many of the upl celebratg today and the weeks and months ahead have been together for s and a civil partnership sce they were troduced 2005. "While there is still lots to do before the lived day-to-day experience of many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people is tly equal Stland, this is a day of celebratn and we know the ceremoni will be a wonrful early Christmas prent for many upl, their iends and fai.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

More than two-thirds of people (68%) agreed that gay upl should have the right to marry, acrdg to the figur om the Social Attus Survey, which tracks public opns on a range of figure par wh jt two-fifths of the public (41%) 2014 survey suggted fewer than a fifth (17%) of Sts were agast same-sex marriage, pared to 29% 2002. Younger people were more likely to believe gay upl should be allowed to wed than olr Sts, wh 83% of 18 to 24-year-olds favour pared to 44% of those aged 65 and Sttish ernment said the move was the right thg to do, but Stland's two ma church - the Catholic Church and Church of Stland - are legislatn will see relig and belief bodi optg to perform same-sex marriag, and misters have strsed that no part of the relig muny would be forced to hold such ceremoni on this storyRelated Inter LksThe BBC is not rponsible for the ntent of external s.

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.

GAY MARRIAGE

“I believe that if a uple love each other and want to m to a life together, they should have the optn of a civil marriage, irrpective of whether they are gay or straight, … are not prrisg gay rights, or tramplg over tradn; we are allowg a space for the two to exist si by si. Campaigners for same sex marriage also noted how relig opposn to homosexual marriage was largely amed by the assumptn that the sole purpose of marriage is procreatn.

U.S. REP. STT PERRY VOT FAVOR OF BILL THAT WOULD PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

It is further argued that civil and domtic partnerships grant gay upl the same protectns and rights nferred by marriage whout challengg the classil notn of marriage. In 1954, the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra, head by Sir John Wolfenn, was set up by the Conservative ernment. The rultant Wolfenn Report published 1957 nclud that crimalisatn of homosexualy was an impgement on civil liberty and that homosexual acts between nsentg adults should not be an offence.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL

It was not until a later that the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 crimalised homosexual activy between nsentg adults and set the age of homosexual nsent at 21, later rced to 18. There was no statutory age of nsent for lbian sex until the Sexual Offenc Amendment Act 2000 which equalised the age of nsent for homosexual and heterosexual men and women to 16 England, Wal and Stland. Image source, PAImage ptn, Gay Pri Edburgh 2016Stland pris self on beg one of the most progrsive untri Europe on issu of sexualy and genr inty but for gay men was not always such an open-md place.

England and Wal n now mark 50 years sce the historic reforms which partially crimalised homosexualy between two nsentg men private over 21 years of age. Nick explas his bsh wh the says: "I was so trated and lonely and isolated and all those thgs that sgle people go through, and more so when you feel you're outsi of society, that I did what many gay men have done and that is I ed to e toilets to try to fd some sort of ntact.