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

Contents:

• GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• SAME SEX MARRIAGE: WHY LIBERAL GERMANY TOOK SO LONG TO GIVE GAY COUPL EQUAL RIGHTS
• A TWISTY PATH TO GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

GERMAN PRITS FY VATIN TO BLS GAY UPL

Thoands of German prits and church employe have also signed a petn llg on the Church to extend blsgs to same-sex upl, while some parish have also displayed rabow flags outsi Catholic Church Germany is more liberal and wealthy than many other untri and the creasgly vol acceptance of gay upl will be hard for the Vatin to ignore, the BBC's Damien McGuns Berl marriage has been legal Germany sce 2017 and the untry has also banned so-lled "gay nversn therapy" for might be terted :Media ptn, Comg out to my parents: Dad 'proud' of gay Mlim sonMore on this story. 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.

Argenta 2010Lat Ameri-CaribbeanFirst untry Lat Ameri to allow gay and lbian upl to marry.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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.

More than 18 years after the Netherlands beme the world’s first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has bee the latt European jurisdictn to allow gays and lbians to marry.

SAME SEX MARRIAGE: WHY LIBERAL GERMANY TOOK SO LONG TO GIVE GAY COUPL EQUAL RIGHTS

Northern Ireland is the 18th European jurisdictn to legalize gay marriage. The Czech Republic is the only untry out of 19 surveyed Central and Eastern Europe where a majory of adults (65%) support gay marriage. Do Germany allow gay marriage wh the same rights as heterosexual upl?

It was only this Friday morng, over 15 years later, when Germany's parliament fally voted favor of allowg gay upl to wed by 393 vot to terveng years, Staeglich says, were tratg: "It turned out [that] there are no reasons to be proud about Germany and the German ernment bee all the untri around [] changed a lot [but] Germany stood on the same place. "The fact that took so long for relatively tolerant Germany—where 83 percent of Germans back gay marriage, acrdg to a recent poll—to equalize s marriage laws is a large part down to polics. In 2005 she said an terview: "man and wife, marriage and fay, stand at the centre of our social mol, so other liftyl should not receive parable nstutnal protectns, " acrdg to The Friday's vote, where lawmakers were allowed to vote wh their nscience rather than along party l, the Chancellor herself opposed the Spahn, Germany's Deputy Fance Mister, himself a gay man and a proponent of gay marriage wh the CDU, adms an terview before the vote that his party is still g to terms wh the issue, and that many wh still oppose Welt reported that at least 70 of the lawmakers reprentg the CDU and s smaller sister party the CSU, roughly a quarter of the total, backed the change.

A TWISTY PATH TO GAY MARRIAGE GERMANY

"Merkel said on Monday that she had begun to change her md on the issue of gay marriage after an vatn to dner her nstuency at the home of two gay women who were rg for eight foster children. But the move was read Germany as pre-electn rival parti and potential aln partners, the SPD and the centrist Free Democrats (FDP), both back the change, and by allowg a vote whout a party whip Merkel uld ntralize the policy as an issue for the general electn whout havg to fight her party's more hardle nservative, though, quot Brish Conservative ex-Prime Mister David Cameron, who once said: "I don't support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative.

I support gay marriage bee I'm a Conservative.

"If you go to the untrysi beg a lbian girl or a gay boy a small village, " says Staeglich, " is still not that easy to ll themselv a gay person, or a queer person. And there are differenc the perceptn of homosexualy between men, which was crimalized East Germany 1968 and the Wt 1969, but still partly crimalized until 1994 (when the age of nsent was equalized), and between women, which was never technilly illegal.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Staeglich hop that gay people beg able to marry like anyone else will change the mds of some tradnalists: "From that pot on you n jt argue and say: 'Well, hello? And to give further e for hope, even the hard-right populist Alternative for Germany party, which oppos gay marriage, elected a gay woman as s lear elsewhere, there are many battl still to fight for Germany's LGBT muny, but the shifts are palpable and asi om all of that, one choice remas for gay people Germany: Now they have the right, will they take the plunge and pop the qutn? Gregor Podschun, the print of the League of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ), an official Church group that supports women’s ordatn, gay marriage, and abortn accs, said that blsgs of same-sex unns were “a mimum” and that “we need [sacramental] marriage for everyone.

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022.