We Should Stand Up for Gay Marriage - One World Edutn

Contents:

• FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE
• 1ST GAY MARRIAGE TAK PLACE FRANCE
• GAY MARRIAGE
• MARIAGE GAY
• HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
• LE 1ER AVRIL 2001, L PAYS-BAS VENAIENT LE 1ER PAYS DU MON à LéGALISER LE MARIAGE HOMOSEXUEL.ETAT S LIX DU MARIAGE GAY DANS LE MON EN 2021
• LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY EN MOSELLE SERA CéLéBRé à WOIPPY
• WE SHOULD STAND UP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

FIRST GAY MARRIAGE CELEBRATED FRANCE

Dpe support for the reform Montpellier, which boasts of beg France's most gay-iendly town, officials scrapped plans to broadst the weddg live on a giant TV screen and stead beamed live onle to the cy's webse. "Love each other, love , love one another, bee 's important, " said Aut om a balny to a crowd of hundreds of well-wishers outsi the cy hall, addg the next step would be a law allowg gay upl to adopt children. Backed by a slim majory of French and feted by gay men and lbians when me to force this month, a law makg France the 14th untry to allow same-sex marriage has triggered street protts by nservativ, Catholics and extreme right-wgers.

" Frigi Barjot, a pk-clad edian who leads the anti-gay marriage movement, has urged her supporters to stay away om Wednday's weddg and exprsed ncern at right-wgers who have hurled bricks, bottl and firecrackers durg march.

1ST GAY MARRIAGE TAK PLACE FRANCE

Earlier, French Interr Mister Manuel Valls pledged to toughen penalti for homophobic behavr, cg an crease the number of threats agast gay people on onle foms.

" Homosexualy, still a crime some 78 untri, has been legal France sce the Revolutn, and the age of nsent was lowered to that of heterosexual relatns 1981. Aut, 40, and Boile, 29, were the first gay uple to apply to marry as Print Hollan was phg through the law, which grants equal marriage and adoptn rights that go beyond existg l for civil partnerships. Aut proposed by phong Boile at work September ont of cy officials who had jt announced that Montpellier would host the first gay weddg.

Sce then, ralli that are partly fuelled by anger at the ernment over other issu like the enomy appear to have erod support for the gay marriage law; now stands at 53 percent, wh 47 percent opposed, reflectg a ep natnal divisn, particularly over the adoptn rights clus. Last week, one opponent of gay marriage shot himself ad at the altar of Paris's Notre Dame thedral and on Sunday hundreds of thoands marched the pal to mand the law's repeal. In a historic ceremony broadst live on French televisn, the first gay uple to marry France said "oui, " then sealed the al wh a lengthy and very public kiss.

GAY MARRIAGE

Hundreds more flocked to the square outsi the buildg as Vcent Aut, 40, and his 30-year-old partner, Bno Boile, were polilly charged ceremony was held unr tight police surveillance — a stark remr of the months of bisg opposn to the new gay marriage law that French lawmakers passed earlier this gas firedAlthough the marriage self went undispted, outsi the cy hall was not trouble-ee. We are very pleased and honored, " said is not clear yet when the first gay adoptn will take of the marriage will not be weled every rner of France.

MARIAGE GAY

Jt last Sunday, tens of thoands of people protted fiercely Paris agast the new gay marriage law, monstratns that end wh rt police shootg tear gas. A plan to legalize same-sex marriage and allow gay upl to adopt was a liberal rnerstone of Socialist Franis Hollan's electn manifto last year. The law beme a polil hot potato that exposed bter divisns between urban France, where homosexualy is wily accepted, and the Catholic heartland where nservative attus hold sway.

HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE

Demonstratns agast the gay marriage law have often spilled to Sunday's prott the French pal, several hundred protters clashed wh police, throwg bottl and chasg journalists. Interr Mister Manuel Valls said police arrted some 100 far-right police timated that 150, 000 people took part the monstratn but march anizers claimed on their Twter acunt that more than a ln people the same time Sunday, on the shor of the Mederranean, the prtig 66th Cann Film Ftival gave the Palme d'Or, s top honor, to Blue is the Warmt Color: The Life of Ale, a graphic French film about a tenr, sensual lbian is the 14th untry so far — and the biggt polil and enomic weight — to regnize gay marriage. For stance, 45% of adults the Silent Generatn (those born between 1928 and 1945) favor allowg gays and lbians to wed, pared wh 74% of Millennials (born between 1981 and 1996).

4As wh the general public, Amerins who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (LGBT) are most likely to ce love as a very important reason for gettg married.

Sce then, several other European untri – cludg England and Wal, France, Ireland, all of Sndavia, Spa and, most recently, Atria, Germany and Malta – have legalized gay marriage.

LE 1ER AVRIL 2001, L PAYS-BAS VENAIENT LE 1ER PAYS DU MON à LéGALISER LE MARIAGE HOMOSEXUEL.ETAT S LIX DU MARIAGE GAY DANS LE MON EN 2021

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn.

” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups. Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years. In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners.

LE PREMIER MARIAGE GAY EN MOSELLE SERA CéLéBRé à WOIPPY

C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch. Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs.

That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S.

WE SHOULD STAND UP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.