Countri Where Gay Marriage Is Legal 2023

Contents:

• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• GAY MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD
• HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY
• GAY MARRIAGE
• THE STATE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD

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.

June 26 marks the fifth anniversary of gay marriage beg legalized across the entire Uned memorate this tone LGBTQ history, we are takg a look at untri around the world that have officially legalized same-sex marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE AROUND THE WORLD

Icelandic Prime Mister Johanna Sigurdardottir ma history Febary 2009 when she beme the untry's first female prime mister and the world's first openly gay head of marriage beme legal Swen on May 1, 2009, followg the enactment of a marriage law passed by the Swedish Parliament early April.

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. 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. Gay marriage is not technilly legal throughout the untry though the Supreme Court issued a lg 2015 makg same-sex marriage easier and gave upl the right to ask for urt junctns agast state gay marriage bans.

HOMOSEXUALY: THE UNTRI WHERE IS ILLEGAL TO BE GAY

Of the signatory untri, Argenta, Brazil, Colombia, Mexi, and Uguay had legal gay marriage before the lg; the other untri, such as Bolivia, the Domin Republic, and Pe, are expected by the Court to change their laws. In the adlit mass shootg to occur the Uned Stat and the worst terror attack USA sce 9/11, 49 people were shot ad Sunday morng around 2 am at the gay nightclub Pulse Orlando, there’s somethg we n learn om the Orlando shootg at Pulse nightclub, ’s that life for the LGBTQ muny is far om many parts of the world, life as a member of the LGBTQ muny n be dangero and even life-threateng. The maximum penalty award for homosexulay Gambia is life Mrania, Mlim men who have sex wh men n be stoned to ath, while women n face prison Nigeria, the penalty for homosexualy is up to 14 years prison, but some Nigerian stat ath penalti n be award to gay men while gay women n be whipped or imprisoned.

GAY MARRIAGE

"I would die of grief if my dghter was gog out wh a girl" - Iran's LGBT stggl ? — BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) June 14, 2016Yemen also follows Shari’a law, and punishments for homosexualy range om floggg to executn, even for homosexual acts between nsentg homosexualy is illegal Qatar, the penalty for non- Mlims is 7 years prison; the penalty for Mlims, however, n be penalty for same-sex unns Sdi Arabia range om several months prison to a life sentence, whippg, floggg, f, torture, and executn on the first nvictn. However, no known s of ath sentenc have been award sce the end of Taliban le homosexualy is illegal India, Pakistan, and Banglash, all three untri officially regnise a third genr, apart om male and female.

As gays or as alli, as global cizens, ’s our rponsibily to ntue fightg antiquated laws and outdated notns, and, ialistic as may sound, eventually be part of a world where everyone is equal.

THE STATE OF GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. For example, Swen, the Netherlands and Germany, all of which have a per-pa gross domtic product over $50, 000, acceptance of homosexualy is among the hight measured across the 34 untri surveyed.

The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years. However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference).