Eastern Europe was once a world lear on gay rights. Then ran out of spegoats | CNN

Contents:

• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• IN EU, THERE’S AN EAST-WT DIVI OVER RELIG MORI, GAY MARRIAGE, NATNAL INTY
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS
• ALL EU UNTRI MT REGNISE RIGHTS OF GAY SPO, ECJ L
• GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
• EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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. 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. 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. 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.

IN EU, THERE’S AN EAST-WT DIVI OVER RELIG MORI, GAY MARRIAGE, NATNAL INTY

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.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

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.

For example, 88% of adults Swen and 75% Germany say they favor or strongly favor allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

ALL EU UNTRI MT REGNISE RIGHTS OF GAY SPO, ECJ L

By ntrast, 74% of Romanians and 79% of Bulgarians oppose or strongly oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry legally.

Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The European Court of Jtice has led that same-sex partners have rincy rightsThe European Unn's top urt has led favour of a Romanian gay man's right to have his US hband live wh him untry, which do not regnise same-sex marriage, had argued that the Amerin was not entled to the EU rincy rights award to the European Court of Jtice said the term "spoe" was genr Coman and his Amerin partner Clai Haton were married Bssels 2010. The European Court of Jtice (ECJ) led on Tuday that member stat should regnise gay marriag ntracted fellow EU stat, and grant upl the same rincy rights that other fai enjoy.

ZURICH, Sept 26 (Rters) - Swzerland agreed to legalise civil marriage and the right to adopt children for same-sex upl by a nearly two-thirds majory a referendum on Sunday, makg one of the last untri Wtern Europe to legalise gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI

Hungary’s hardle natnalist ernment passed a new law earlier this month banng ntent that “promot” homosexualy and genr change om beg shared wh children, effectively prohibg any discsn of LGBTQ them schools. In dog so, Orbán has followed the playbook of Poland’s ernment, which has been chippg away at the rights of the LGBTQ muny for a number of years, adoptg discrimatory rhetoric and stokg homophobia.

“There’s a real regrsn happeng many different untri, and rights that had been regnized are now beg challenged, ” said Evelyne Paradis, the executive director of the European branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA-Europe). Orbán, like the ernment Poland and some other untri, is tryg to prent homophobic polici as a way of protectg natnal valu. “It’s not about homosexuals, ’s about the kids and the parents, ” he told reporters, addg that he was a “eedom fighter” durg Hungary’s munist era.

She add that the ia of natn is often closely associated wh a tradnal fay and genr rol – another way to “other” the gay muny.

EASTERN EUROPE WAS ONCE A WORLD LEAR ON GAY RIGHTS. THEN RAN OUT OF SPEGOATS

“You have plac like Germany, France, Spa where 85% or more say that homosexualy should be accepted by society and then once you’re past the dividg le, on the other si of the former Iron Curta, those numbers beg to fall pretty rapidly and then get even lower as you go to Rsia, ” he said.

Acrdg to Pohter’s rearch, 47% of people Poland and 49% of people Hungary say homosexualy should be accepted. “When you look at the former Eastern bloc, the untri had a long tradn of really progrsive legislatn towards LGBTQ rights, Poland for stance crimalized homosexualy 1932, which is really, really early, ” Kościańska said.

Duds said Hungary, too, was once ahead of Wtern Europe, crimalizg homosexualy 1961, although the muny remaed largely visible. EU untri that have not legalised gay marriage mt rpect the rincy rights of same-sex spo who want to live together their terrory, the European urt of jtice has led, a move hailed as a victory for human ECJ said member stat mt regnise the rights of all married upl to ee movement, no matter their genr or sexual lg me rponse to a se which Romanian thori were acced of discrimatg agast Adrian Coman, who wanted to be able to live his home untry wh his Amerin hband, Claibourn Robert Haton, wh whom he had been livg for four years the US before they married Bssels 2010. Opposn to same-sex relatnships n be strong Romania, where homosexualy was crimalised ’s father, Liviu, told the Associated Prs he was pleased wh the lg, which would make some aspects of their liv easier.

Romanița Iordache, the vice-print of the Romanian gay rights anisatn Accept, said: “Startg om this moment onward, Romanian thori now have an obligatn to rpect the [ECJ] cisn, and ensure rincy rights and mimal regnn for all same-sex fai a siar suatn. Sce then, however, Hungarian lawmakers and populist Prime Mister Viktor Orban have passed several anti-LGBTQ+ laws, cludg on that prohib same-sex upl om adoptg children and ban any ntent emed to promote beg gay or transgenr om beg distributed to people unr the age of eighteen.