As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
- 31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictns that have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry. * nations allowing gay marriage *
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.
31 COUNTRI THAT ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (+ 12 WHERE BEG GAY CARRI THE DEATH PENALTY)
* nations allowing gay marriage *
That was only eighteen years ago, meang that the legalizatn of gay marriage is an up-and-g change the world as of ls than two s ago. However, a uple of untri have not pletely legalized gay marriage all throughout the natn, wh same-sex upl only beg able to get married certa areas of said untri. There are only two untri that have not fully legalized gay marriage but have allowed same-sex upl to be wed certa regns wh the untry.
The number of untri that have not legalized gay marriage outweighs the number of untri that do, which uld take a turn the oppose directn as natns progrs over time. 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. 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.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
Worldwi, most of the untri that allow gay marriage are Wtern Europe. In the Ameris, five untri have legalized gay marriage. * nations allowing gay marriage *
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.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * nations allowing gay marriage *
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. Same-Sex Marriage Legalizatn by CountryThe Dutch triggered a polil and social shift that has spread across large swaths of the take part the gay pri nga, May 13, 2023, Havana. Ecuador legally regnized same-sex marriage after a majory of judg s hight urt led favor of a gay uple sug the untry’s civil registry.
Prime Mister Xavier Bettel, who is openly gay, supported the measure and beme the first lear of the European Unn to marry his partner. 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.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
Estonia is now the send untry 2023 to legalize gay marriage, after Andorra did so earlier this marriage has advanced untri and regns where acceptance of homosexualy is high and globally, two-thirds of untri that allow are Wtern Europe.
Each year, the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, or ILGA World, releas a seri of updated world maps showg where ’s both legal and illegal to be LGBTQ+. Jt after the clock stck midnight on Febary 1, 2017, Kjell Benjamsen & Erik Skjelna, who had been livg together for 36 years prr to their marriage, were the first gay uple married Norway. 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.