Spa's Sprt to Marriage Equaly - The Gay & Lbian Review

Contents:

• SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE
• SPA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE; LAW IS AMONG THE MOST LIBERAL
• LOVE AND THE STATE: GAY MARRIAGE SPA
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

SPA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE

The Spanish parliament today voted to legalise gay marriage spe heavy opposn om the Roman Catholic is now the fourth untry the world to allow same-sex upl the same rights as married heterosexual upl.

Canada approved gay marriag yterday, while the Netherlands and Belgium legalised them 2000 and Methodist church Bra yterday beme the first big Christian nomatn to offer the prospect of blsgs servic for same-sex landmark lg Spa giv married gay upl equal rights to herance and allows them to adopt children. On the day he was nfirmed as prime mister, Mr Zapatero said he would fight discrimatn agast the bate before today's historic vote, Mr Zapatero acknowledged Spa was jog the growg numbers of untri legalisg gay marriag. Four members refed to vote on the senate, where nservativ have the majory, rejected the bill last week, but fal say on legislatn rts wh the church is so opposed to the bill took the rare step of endorsg a rally which hundreds of thoands, cludg 20 bishops, marched through Madrid prottg agast the legislatn on June last year, the spokman for the Spanish bishops nference, Anton Martínez Camo, said that allowg gay marriage was like "imposg a vis on society - somethg false that will have negative nsequenc for social life" rights groups weled today's vote and said the first gay marriag Spa uld take place as soon as 15 days after the law is published Spa's official journal.

SPA LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE; LAW IS AMONG THE MOST LIBERAL

"This victory Spa will make many other untri start the battle for equaly bee is possible, " said gay rights activist Beatriz Gimeno. "Durg the 1939 to 1975 dictatorship of Francis Fran, homosexualy, divorce and abortn were illegal.

World|Spa Legaliz Gay Marriage; Law Is Among the Most Liberal ADVERTISEMENTJuly 1, 2005MADRID, June 30 - The Spanish Parliament voted Thursday to legalize gay marriage, givg fal approval to a bill that would make Spa, a predomantly Catholic untry, the first natn to elimate all legal distctns between same-sex and heterosexual unns, acrdg to supporters of the bill, passed 187 to 147, says upl will have the same rights, cludg the eedom to marry and to adopt children, regardls of other untri, the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada, have voted to legalize gay marriage.

"Spa is talkg about total equaly, " said Kursad Kahramanoglu, -secretary general of the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn, which is based Bssels. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 9 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Spa Legaliz Gay Marriage; Law Is Among the Most Liberal. 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.

LOVE AND THE STATE: GAY MARRIAGE SPA

Ecuador 2019Lat Ameri-CaribbeanCourt lg ma Ecuador the fifth South Amerin untry to allow gays and lbians to wed.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

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.

REUTERS/Serg PerezSummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent.

13/2005, 1 July 2005, ncerng, through a change the Civil Co, the accs of lbians and gay men to the stutn of marriage. I argue that although same-sex marriage has been reprented by many activists and policians Spa as a genr ntral ntract, has the potential for differential impacts on lbians and gay men, and further rearch and bat are need this area.

300 parejas homosexual se han sado en España en los últimos dos años”, El País, 27 May 2007Fernánz Cordón, J. (2007a) Entre la visibilidad y la igualdad formal: perspectivas femistas ante la reprentación l lbianismo en el matrimon homosexual.

El portavoz l PSC Miquel Iceta fien su ndición homosexual ante el Parlamento talán y pi una reforma que legalice el matrimon para e lectivo”, El Paí.

El rodiputado y ndidato a la alldía Madrid renoce su homosexualidad en la revista ‹Zero’”, El País, 2 January, A., “El ngro rechaza anular la ley matrimons homosexual”, El␣Mundo, 28 Febary C., Boyd S. Jt north of the cy center is the predomantly LGBTQ+ neighborhood of Chue where many of the gay bars and nightlife n be found.

Spa is one of the most gay-iendly untri  the world, boastg a harmon mix of rich tradn and liberal views. In larger ci like Madrid and Barcelona, ’s not difficult to fd gay-iendly and gay-owned and operated acmodatns and tour pani.

Jt a short trip away om Barcelona is the seasi village of Sg, a notor gay hotspot all summer long.

In the wter, check out Spa’s ma gay ski event Snow Queer Ftival the Pyrene north of Barcelona. In 2004, the first se of s kd, the Spanish ernment granted polil asylum to a homosexual on the grounds of his sexual orientatn [R1. Unr 2002 regulatns, gay and lbian Civil Guard officers who have been livg together for two years are entled to live staff barracks as a uple [R1.

On 08 May 2000, Members of Parliament om Catalonia troduced a gay and heterosexual partnership measure to Spa’s Congrs of Deputi [R1. On 30 June 1998, the Catalonian parliament passed a bill givg habg gay and straight upl many of the rights of matrimony except adoptn rights for gays [R1.

On 18 March 1997, Spa’s Congrs of Deputi narrowly feated two gay partnership bills 163-161 after two tied vot [R1.