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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• COUNTRI AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THE PENALTY FOR BEG GAY IS ATH
• STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)

GAY MARRIAGE BY STATE [UPDATED JULY 2023]

Gay marriage, also known as same-sex marriage, is the marriage of people of the same sex or genr. Gay marriag ma progrs the 1980s, when Berkeley, California, pass the untry’s first domtic partnership law.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage 2003.

California and Connecticut legalized gay marriage 2008, followed by Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire. On November 6, 2012, Mae, Maryland, and Washgton beme the first stat to legalize gay marriage through a popular vote. Dpe this, not all stat are abidg and have enacted nstutnal or statutory bans on gay marriage known as “Defense of Marriage” acts.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Gay Marriage by State.

Stat and the District of Columbia have legalized gay marriage. In the 2020 electn, Nevada beme the first state to regnize gay marriage a state nstutn.

Below are the stat that have legalized gay marriage the orr which they legalized. The followg stat have not legalized gay marriage:. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Kamala Harris has been a vol supporter of LGBTQ rightsUS Vice-Print Kamala Harris who is on a tour of three Ain untri - Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia - has drawn cricism over her support for LGBTQ rights.In Ghana, a speech llg for "all people be treated equally" she appeared to cricise a bill before the untry's parliament which crimalis advocy for gay rights and propos jail terms for those that intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr.The untry's Speaker Alban Bagb later lled her remarks "unmocratic" and urged lawmakers not to be "timidated by any person".In Tanzania, a former mister spoke agast US support for LGBTQ rights ahead of the vis and Zambia some opposn policians have threatened to hold protts.Where is homosexualy still outlawed?Some untri, cludg several Ai, have recently moved to crimalise same-sex unns and improve rights for LGBTQ people.In December 2022, Sgapore's parliament repealed a ntroversial law which banned sex between men.

WHERE BEG GAY IS ILLEGAL AROUND WORLD

In the same month, the high urt Barbados stck out laws that crimalised gay sex.In July last year, the urts Antigua and Barbuda clared a law crimalisg same-sex acts between nsentg adults unnstutnal.In Febary 2021, Angola's Print Joao Louren signed to law a revised penal to allow same-sex relatnships and ban discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn.In 2020, Gabon reversed a law that had crimalised homosexualy and ma gay sex punishable wh six months prison and a large fe.Botswana's High Court also led favour of crimalisg homosexualy 2019. Mozambique and the Seychell have also scrapped anti-homosexualy laws recent years.But there are untri where existg laws outlawg homosexualy have been tightened, cludg Nigeria and Uganda.Uganda's parliament recently passed a law to crack down on homosexual activi, promptg wispread nmnatn.Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Campaign agast LGBTQ rights some Ain untri has tensified recent weeksAnd some untri, efforts to get the laws removed have failed.In May 2019, the high urt Kenya upheld laws crimalisg homosexual acts. In Febary his year Kenya's hight urt led that was wrong for thori to ban the gay muny om registerg a rights anisatn.

But strsed that gay sex remas illegal.Colonial legacyMany of the laws crimalisg homosexual relatns origate om lonial tim. And many plac, breakg the laws uld be punishable by long prison sentenc.Out of the 53 untri the Commonwealth - a loose associatn of untri most of them former Brish loni - 29 have laws that crimalise homosexualy.Although the origal Brish laws applied only to men, untri that crimalise homosexualy today also have penalti for women who have sex wh women.The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (Ilga) monors the progrs of laws relatg to homosexualy around the world.It says the ath penalty is the legally prcribed punishment for same-sex sexual acts Bnei, Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Yemen and some northern stat of Nigeria.In five untri - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, and the Uned Arab Emirat - there is no legal clary and the ath penalty uld be applied.Image source, AFPImage ptn, An Indian gay rights activist protts agast a urt lg 2013 upholdg a law which crimalis gay sex.Sudan repealed the ath penalty for nsensual same-sex sexual acts 2020.Some observers note that the risk of prosecutn some plac is mimal. For example, a 2017 report on Jamai by the UK Home Office said that Jamai was regard as a homophobic society, but that the "thori do not actively seek to prosecute LGBT persons".

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

Activist groups say the abily of lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) anisatns to rry out advocy work is beg rtricted.Changg trendThere is a global trend toward crimalisg same-sex acts.So far, 33 untri the world regnise same-sex marriag, and 34 others provi for some partnership regnn for same-sex upl, Ilga says.In Ai, same-sex marriag and civil unns are only legal South Ai, and the French Islands of Mayotte and Rnn. 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. 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.

COUNTRI AROUND THE WORLD WHERE THE PENALTY FOR BEG GAY IS ATH

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. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda/File PhotoLIMA, July 21 (Rters) - A Pevian high urt has orred same-sex unns to be legally registered public rerds, markg a victory for the LGBTQ muny a untry that has been reluctant to regnize gay lg, published on Friday, followed a se brought by a gay Pevian cizen who sued the registratn office for refg to rerd her 2019 marriage overseas, sayg her nstutnal rights were vlated.

STAT WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL (INFOGRAPHIC)

Reprentativ of the office were not immediately available for is one of the few untri Lat Ameri that has not regnized same-sex marriage, though is not illegal to be gay. However, 61% disapproved of gay people public Lima urt orred the rerds office to "proceed wh the registratn" of the woman's marriage, the Superr Court of Jtice of Lima said on urt clared "applible" an article of the Pevian Civil Co of 1984 on the fay, which refers to marriage as the voluntary unn between man and is likely that an appeal agast the lg will be 2020, a gay uple took Pe to the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights after they lost a bid for regnn of their Mexin marriage the time, the nstutnal urt led that the civil registry of Pe only regniz the marriage between a man and a untri South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage recent years.

Homosexualy is illegal Malaysia and punishable by 20 years prison. Bee you’re young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive and ol. Dpe several lol bylaws discrimatg agast LGBTQ+ people Indonia, s natnal laws have never ma homosexualy a crimal there have been attempts to crimalise homosexualy by nservative policians and groups, while gay upl often face discrimatn the world’s most populo Mlim-majory untry.