This was the world's first legal same-sex weddgDate: April 1, 2001Dutch uple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker ma historywhen they married on April 1st, 2001Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, GERT KASTEEL AND DOLF PASKER, SAYING:KASTEEL: "All the square was filled wh..."PASKER: "Cameras and journalists."JOURNALIST: "How did you feel?"KASTEEL: "Happy, very happy."PASKER: "A b nervo."KASTEEL: "No!"PASKER: "A ltle b."KASTEEL: "Maybe."Lotn: Wep, NetherlandsThe Netherlands was the first untry the world to legalize same-sex marriage 2001It's now legal nearly 30 natns(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE HALF OF ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, DOLF PASKER, SAYING:"It's nicer to say to other people: "He's my hband, he's my man." And 's natural to say so, otherwise I have to say, "He's my partner' or "He's my iend." And has also helped me to accept myself."Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) FORMER EDITOR OF DUTCH GAY MAGAZINE 'GAY KRANT', NOW LAWMAKER, HENK KROL, SAYING:"Well helped a lot bee I was workg parliament, so I knew all the key figur. // And then, at that moment, everybody the Netherlands said to me 'The Netherlands will be the first and the last untry, the rt of the world won't follow you'. And you see what is happeng right now, almost 30 untri the whole world followed the Dutch example. And I uld tell about Taiwan, Canada, South Ai, Ameri, Spa and 's so good to see that almost every civilized untry followed the Dutch way."
Contents:
- 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
- NETHERLANDS: AMSTERDAM: FIRST GAY WEDDG
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
- THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE
20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE THE NETHERLANDS: 20 THOAND UPL
In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday. * gay wedding netherlands *
At the start of this year, the Netherlands had 20 thoand gay upl. Until the troductn of gay marriage 2001, same-sex upl uld only formalise their relatnship through a registered partnership. Even after gay marriage was troduced, relatively many same-sex upl have been optg for a registered partnership stead of a marriage.
Sce 2015, the share of gay upl optg for a partnership has creased. The divorce rate among heterosexual upl is parable to that of gay male upl: 16 percent were divorced after ten years.
Majory of married gay upl Amsterdam. In the untry that first legalized gay marriage, the Dutch crown prcs has the right to marry a person of any genr whout givg up her right to the throne, the Prime Mister of the Netherlands said on Tuday.
NETHERLANDS: AMSTERDAM: FIRST GAY WEDDG
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. * gay wedding netherlands *
Gay marriage was legalized the Netherlands 2001. Rutte said that one issue remas unrolved: how a gay marriage would affect later succsn of the royal uple’s children.
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Eleven years after the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, homosexual upl still marry far ls often than heterosexual upl, partly bee they still face obstacl when they wish to have children.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
The Internatnal Homomonument, a monument that honors people persecuted for their sexual orientatn, was vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. * gay wedding netherlands *
Jt 20% of Dutch homosexual upl are married, pared wh 80% of heterosexual upl, h figur by Statistics Netherlands show. Sce April 2001, when the Netherlands beme the first untry to legalize same-sex marriage, some 15, 000 gay and lbian upl have tied the knot.
Gay marriage laws. LGBTQ activist groups petned the Dutch parliament to legalize gay marriage.
Netherlands: Amsterdam: first gay weddg. A suburb of Amsterdam has celebrated the first officially sanctned gay weddg to take place the Netherlands.
GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. A 2017 photo of the Internatnal Homomonument at The Hague.
A monument the Netherlands that is dited to LGBTQ people who have been persecuted due to their sexual orientatn has been vandalized wh anti-gay graffi. The Internatnal Homomonument on the Koekamp, a seven-meter tall steel sculpture, is signed to memorate all people who have been persecuted or opprsed bee of their sexual orientatn, both at the prent time and the past. The graffi pated at the monument se and on the bench clud drawgs and anti-gay slogans, cludg “fuck gays, ’ “fuck Pri, ” and “weg met pri, ” or “down wh Pri.
“It is a ser form of vandalism that stems om homophobia, ” she said, acrdg to the NL Tim. “The Homomonument is a symbol of acceptance and eedom. The vandalism of the Homomonument follows a strg of homophobic attacks on property across the Netherlands recent months.
THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE
In April, a group of about 20 adults attacked a buildg where a group of gay teens were meetg, beatg up a volunteer workg wh the teens and attemptg to set fire to a rabow flag hangg om the buildg’s exterr while shoutg anti-gay slurs. This was the world's first legal same-sex weddgDate: April 1, 2001Dutch uple Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker ma historywhen they married on April 1st, 2001Lotn: Amsterdam, Netherlands(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, GERT KASTEEL AND DOLF PASKER, SAYING:KASTEEL: "All the square was filled wh... "Lotn: Wep, NetherlandsThe Netherlands was the first untry the worldto legalize same-sex marriage 2001It's now legal nearly 30 natns(SOUNDBITE) (English) ONE HALF OF ONE OF WORLD'S FIRST LEGALLY-RECOGNISED MARRIED GAY COUPLES, DOLF PASKER, SAYING:"It's nicer to say to other people: "He's my hband, he's my man.