Jt three weeks after a natnal referendum showed strong support for gay marriage, Parliament voted overwhelmgly to follow the public’s lead.
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TIMELE OF GAY MARRIAGE AND RIGHTS IN ATRALIA
* when did gay marriage became legal in australia *
The amendment of the feral Marriage Act on 9 December 2017 gave same-sex upl the same right to marry as heterosexual was the culmatn of s of mpaigng by the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA+) muni and their passg of the Bill the Hoe of Reprentativ was seen as a watershed moment for equal rights Atralia. In 2018, about 76 untri still crimalise homosexual activy. Penalti for homosexual acts have varied across the stat and terrori but all have clud terms of imprisonment and dividuals were still beg arrted and charged to the 1970s.
Decrimalisatn of homosexualyFrom the 1960s the socially progrsive South Atralian Labor ernment wanted to repeal laws crimalisg homosexualy. However, was not until the May 1972 murr Alai of Dr Gee Dunn, a law lecturer and gay man, that premier, Don Dunstan, asssed that the muny mood was receptive to Dunn’s murr led to revelatns of how monplace vlence and harassment agast homosexual people Atralia’s Crimal Law (Sexual Offenc) Act, was enacted on 2 October 1975.
Prr to this, gay upl were able to obta marriage licens om Atralian registrars and celebrate their marriag abroad or Canada where same-sex marriage is legal. * when did gay marriage became legal in australia *
It was a landmark LGBTQIA+ rights Atralia bee fully crimalised homosexual acts.
‘We are fay’ lead float, Sydney Gay and Lbian Mardi Gras Para, 1992. Atralian Marriage Equaly B, Sydney Gay andLbian Mardi Gras, 2012. Thirteen years after changg the Marriage Act to explicly forbid same-sex unns, feral policians voted to undo the last major piece of discrimatn agast gay and lbian followed last month's emphatic rolutn of the Atralian public the postal survey to jo the rt of the English-speakg world by embracg marriage vote the Hoe of Reprentativ, mut before 6pm on Thursday, me after last week's vote the Senate, meang the law has now passed both ho of Parliament.
Government gay marriage supporters Tim Wilson and Warren Entsch embrace as Trent Zimmerman watch Alex EllghsenAttorney-General Gee Brandis advised the law would formally change on Saturday, allowg same-sex upl to lodge a Notice of Intend Marriage om this mimum notice perd is one month, meang the first legally regnised same-sex weddg uld take place on January 9.