NZ is set bee the 13th untry the world to legalise same-sex marriage. Scroll through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of rights for gay people.
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TIMELE: GAY RIGHTS NEW ZEALAND
Parliament has passed a law legalisg gay marriage, 77 vot to 44, amid loud shows of jubilatn om the floor and gallery. * new zealand gay marriage laws *
Photo / Mark MchellParliament has jt passed a law legalisg gay marriage, 77 vot to 44, amid loud shows of jubilatn om the floor and the claratn of the vote was followed by a held a nscience vote on the private member's bill sponsored by gay Labour MP Louisa bill will take effect mid Augt and 27 years after New Zealand crimalised homosexualy.
"It really feels great to be gay and alive New Zealand at the moment. "It's the last legislative barrier to equal rights for gay people or LGBT people. " Gay and lbian upl om other untri will be able to marry New Zealand.
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.
New Zealand lawmakers approve same-sex marriage law; spe opposn om some relig and social anizatns, gay and lbian upl will also be able to jotly adopt children. * new zealand gay marriage laws *
Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry. Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed. 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. Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advot celebrated outsi parliament after the bill was passed, llg a tone for watchg om the public gallery and some lawmakers immediately broke to song, sgg the New Zealand love song "Pokarekare Ana", AP news agency opn polls have suggted that about two-thirds of New Zealanrs support the reform, although others polls suggt the public are more divid. "I am so happy, not only bee I n now marry the person I love, but bee New Zealand has moved a step further towards gay and lbian people beg pletely equal wh the rt of our society.
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * new zealand gay marriage laws *
French and Brish lawmakers have also voted favour of legislatn allowg gay marriage, although the bills have not yet been passed to law. No other untry the Asia-Pacific regn allows gay marriage. However, some stat allow civil unns for same-sex do not allow gay marriage.
Labour Party MP Gea Beyer hugged by then Prime Mister Helen Clark after her main speech to Zealand has bee the 13th untry the world to legalise same-sex bated the biggt change to gay and transgenr rights sce homosexual law reform 25 years ago, wh a historic vote on the third readg of the Marriage Amendment Bill. The bill passed wh 77 vot to through our teractive timele above to see NZ's history of gay om New ZealandOne ad after cint Gisborne riverThe ath is beg referred to the Coroner. Labour MP Kiri Allan shared on social media that she had gone through nversn therapy through her church as a teenager and had "sperately tried to 'pray the gay' away" orr to ga acceptance.
The Homosexual Law Reform BillTo brg about change the law, the gay movement need a parliamentary champn. She nsulted wh gay groups to velop a private member’s bill, the Homosexual Law Reform Bill, which she troduced to the Hoe of Reprentativ on 8 March bill had two parts. Support and opposnGay and lbian groups had been assured that the mpaign would be short and nfed to Parliament.
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'Natnal MP Norman Jon addrsg a public meetg 1985 LAGANZ 0080-B, Peter Nowland CollectnOpponents were supported by anisatns such as the Salvatn Army and by well-known overseas mpaigners agast homosexualy – the Reverend Lou Sheldon and John Swan particular.
Their arguments often rted on moral and relig grounds: that homosexualy was 'unnatural' and that the Bible nmned people argued that the law would lead to more homosexualy and eventually to the llapse of the fay un.
Homosexualy and paedophilia – sex wh children – were sometim regard as the same of those opposed to the legislatn also raised the spectre of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). This illns uld be passed through the transfer of body fluids such as blood or through sexual ntact of any sort, homosexual or heterosexual.