<p><strong>Eme Saner: </strong>Equal marriage laws are beg passed several untri, but Rsia, life grows harsher each month for LGBT people. Which plac are bt and worst for gay rights?</p>
Contents:
- WHAT COUNTRI ARE GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL
- FIRST GAY MARRIAG TAKE PLACE ENGLAND AND WAL
- EUROPEAN COUNTRI AMONG TOP PLAC FOR GAY PEOPLE TO LIVE
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
WHAT COUNTRI ARE GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL
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 upl. * percentage of countries where gay marriage is legal *
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.
When Qatar hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, s anti-LGBTQ+ laws were wily cricized; prohibs gay sex, and secury forc have asslted transgenr women and other LGBTQ+ people, acrdg to Human Rights Watch. While the new legislatn guaranteeg that right is far om perfect – for example, don’t allow a Taiwane person to marry a same-sex natnal of another untry where same-sex marriage is not legal – is the first legislatn legalizg same-sex marriage any Asian heterosexual upl enjoy the right to marry, adopt children, and receive their partners’ pensn benefs after ath, homosexual upl many untri face discrimatn all of the pile the untri where same-sex marriage is officially legal, 24/7 Wall St. Study has shown that heterosexual upl divorce at higher rat than homosexual upl, wh some stat havg lower divorce rat than others, and wh each state, plac where more people are gettg divorced.
FIRST GAY MARRIAG TAKE PLACE ENGLAND AND WAL
Gay upl across England and Wal said "I do" on Friday night as a law thorisg same-sex marriage me to effect at midnight, the fal stage a long fight for equaly. Prime Mister David Cameron hailed what he said was an "important moment for our untry", and a rabow flag flew above ernment offic London celebratn. In Brighton on England's south ast, Neil Allard and Andrew Wale exchanged vows and rgs the opulent splendour of the Royal Paviln ont of about 100 guts. * percentage of countries where gay marriage is legal *
The untry's Prime Mister at the time, Social Democrat Johanna Sigurdardottir, was the first openly gay head of state the world, and soon after the bill passed she married her long-time partner one of the first same-sex marriag Iceland. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.
EUROPEAN COUNTRI AMONG TOP PLAC FOR GAY PEOPLE TO LIVE
An average of one three adults 124 untri say their area is a good place for gay people to live. This sentiment rang wily om as high as 87% Spa and the Netherlands to as low as 1% Senegal. * percentage of countries where gay marriage is legal *
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.
The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Gay marriage is legal Connecticut, Iowa, Massachetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washgton, and activists believe that New York Cyâs ternatnal stature and state size fluence the signifince of the vote. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldnt be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other thgs.
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * percentage of countries where gay marriage is legal *
Not every untry the world is volved the nversatn surroundg gay marriage, but a large percentage of the worlds 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. For weeks, she waged a bter war of words wh the Roman Catholic Church over the issue, sayg that would be a terrible distortn of mocracy to ny gay upl the right to wed and that was time for relig lears to regnize how much more liberal and ls discrimatory the natns social mor had bee. Argentas new law will give gay people the same maral rights as heterosexuals, cludg adoptn and herance rights, and reflects the broang legal regnn of same-sex relatnships across Lat Ameri.
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. 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. However, while stigma agast LGBT muni is certaly lseng some untri, many stat ntue to crimalise same-sex sexual ntact unr the threat of imprisonment or even rearch published by the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) serv as a stark remr of jt how wispread such crimalisatn n be.
GAY RIGHTS AROUND THE WORLD: THE BT AND WORST UNTRI FOR EQUALY
LGBT+ rights around the globeShow all 9Surprisgly, a total of 40 untri reta a 'gay panic' clse which enabl people to e as a fence for mtg crim such as asslt or murr that they were provoked bee the person was gay, lbian or the report foced on gay, lbian and bisexual rights, is believed transphobic laws and attus are also very mon as part of persecutn specifilly targetted at transgenr report follows rearch published last week to lbian and bisexual women's experienc of persecutn for their sexual orientatn.