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.
Contents:
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- 10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
- TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
- HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
- 10 BT GAY WEDDG DTATNS THE USA
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * places that support gay marriage *
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. That was only eighteen years ago, meang that the legalizatn of gay marriage is an up-and-g change the world as of ls than two s ago.
However, a uple of untri have not pletely legalized gay marriage all throughout the natn, wh same-sex upl only beg able to get married certa areas of said untri. There are only two untri that have not fully legalized gay marriage but have allowed same-sex upl to be wed certa regns wh the untry. The number of untri that have not legalized gay marriage outweighs the number of untri that do, which uld take a turn the oppose directn as natns progrs over time.
Rsia is an example of a natn that do not necsarily crimalize same-sex upl, but the ernment plac ser rtrictns on people who are gay, which is still a way of censorg relatnships that are not heterosexual. In others – most recently Alabama – ’s been state or feral judg forcg the toehold long sought by gay rights advot and bterly ntted by those who argue marriage is an stutn rerved solely for one man and one woman.
10 COUNTRI THAT COMPLETELY HATE GAY PEOPLE
Hoe legislatn difyg protectns for gay marriage passed spe the fact that a big majory of the Hoe Republin uc opposed . * places that support gay marriage *
The state’s nstutnal ban on gay marriage, passed 2004, was stck down twice last year – once by a state urt judge and aga by a U. Today, majori of all but two key subgroups -- Republins (49%) and weekly churchgoers (41%) -- say gay marriag should be legally regnized.
Gay marriage beme the law of the land after the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell cisn, and Print Joe Bin signed bipartisan legislatn to ward off future judicial attempts at undog s legaly late last year.
Among many groups -- cludg olr adults, Prottants and rints of the South -- perspectiv on gay marriage have gone om majory opposn to majory support over the urse of Gallup’s trend spanng more than a quarter of a century.
TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
* places that support gay marriage *
Hodg cisn, public support for legalizg gay marriage cracked the 60% level, and last year reached the 70% mark for the first time. Risg natnal support for legal same-sex marriage reflects steady creas among most subgroups of the populatn, even those who have tradnally been the most ristant to gay marriage.
Amerins who report that they attend church weekly rema the primary mographic holdout agast gay marriage, wh 40% favor and 58% opposed.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Across Europe, Atralia, North Ameri, and most of South Ameri, thgs like gay marriage and homosexual adoptn are now eher legal or beg openly discsed. From Sharia stat that mand the ath penalty to hard-le Christian natns that leave gay people to rot disease-fted prisons, the Earth remas a very bleak, very dark place for lns of non-straight people. At the time, was seen as a huge step forward for gay rights the untry, and many assumed was the start of a new era of tolerance for LGBT people.
STAT ACROSS U.S. STILL CLG TO OUTDATED GAY MARRIAGE BANS
The dumbt part is that both maland Cyps and Turkey self have no laws agast homosexualy, but thanks to a quirk of occupatn, gay people the North of the untry still have to fear for their safety. As a nservative cy-state on the edg of the Malay Pensula, ’s perhaps not surprisg to learn that Sgapore still discrimat agast gay people.
LGBT teens have been ambhed by vigilante mobs and huiated or threatened wh ax while supporters of gay chari have been bld or beaten wh baseball bats. In October, the untry me wh a hair’s breadth of passg a law that would require lol police forc to kidnap the children of gay parents.
HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
Luckily, this last proposal was eventually dropped, but the fact that was ever serly bated shows jt how eply homophobia is now permeatg every sector of Rsian society. People have been knifed and set on fire unr spicn of beg gay, and the funerals of gay men have prevly been attacked by mobs armed wh rocks and bottl. Wh some notable exceptns—such as South Ai and, to an extent, Mozambique—the ntent’s var stat generally own on homosexualy at bt and vlently persecute at worst.
People have been arbrarily taed and ported for performg plays that even mentn homosexualy, while police abe of gay people is at an all-time high.
10 BT GAY WEDDG DTATNS THE USA
LGBT rights activists are routely harassed by the state and newspapers have prevly been known to publish the nam and addrs of homosexuals alongsi cements to lynchg. A shameful piece of legislatn that’s been on and off the table for a uple of years, the bill would prcribe the ath penalty for homosexualy. This visceral hatred manifts self a particularly awful way— the northern parts of the untry, operatg unr Sharia Law, homosexualy is punishable by ath.