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.
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 *
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 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.
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 *
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GAY MONUMENT THE HAGUE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI
Gay marriage the Netherlands. 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. Jt 20% of Dutch homosexual upl are married, pared wh 80% of heterosexual upl, h figur by Statistics Netherlands show.
THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRAT 20 YEARS OF GAY MARRIAGE
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.