Timele provid by « Return to the gay marriage issue page A history of same-sex marriage laws Important events are listed red 1993
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Montana Supreme Court l that the gay and lbian partners of Montana Universy employe have the same right to health surance benefs as their heterosexual unterparts. Michigan appeals urt l that state’s ban on gay marriage prohibs state and lol ernments and public universi om offerg health benefs to partners same-sex relatnships.
The report suggts that prciple, there aren't any legal rtrictns around adoptg as an dividual — gay or straight — however, all dividuals are ually nied the right to adopt. (date unknown)Conversn therapy be by Brazil's Feral Psychology Council: "psychologists shall not llaborate events or servic offerg treatment and cure for homosexualy. October 9Homosexual activy be remaed illegal until the urt gave s lg on 9 October 1998, the 1998 lg was orred to be retroactively applied to 27 April 1994.
HOW AMERI GOT PAST THE ANTI-GAY POLICS OF THE '90S
1990s timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay marriage 90s *
Print of Bahamas ma an announcement 1998, explicly supportg LGBTQ+ dividuals to serve the aryApril 22Homosexual activy be illegal (imprisonment as punishment). Addnally, public state employe are granted some benefs solely based upon marriage, same-sex partners are eligible to receive the marriage be not homosexual activy is illegal Tonga, same-sex marriage is not legal. Homosexual activy be male illegal, female to 2 years imprisonment1997November 27Equal age of nsent be age of nsent Ecuador is 14, regardls of genr or sexual orientatn.
)Homosexual activy be 5Homosexual activy be though homosexualy was not directly illegal, a law regardg Vagrants and Thugs uld have directly punished LGBT muny. May 1Homosexual activy be 1997 the High Court of Atralia led that Tasmania's anti-gay laws were nsistent wh feral law, and Tasmania (the fal jurisdictn wh ntrary laws) was forced to crimalise homosexualy. Servg openly ary be lbians, gays, bisexuals permted, transgenr people a sgle untry Ai cludg South Ai don’t allow trans ary serviceApril 26Same-sex marriage be civil unns.
November 14Homosexual activy be are no law specifilly preventg homosexual September 22Right to change legal genr be legal, surgery not Supreme Court, a rolutn of September 22, 1995 (ref. 2d 535 (N., 1995)Same-sex adoptn be 1995 Admistrative Memorandum of the Nebraska Divisn of Children and Fay Servic troduced a ban on fosterg and adoptn by dividuals intifyg as "homosexual" as well as unmarried dividuals. Lbianism illegal unr moraly law 130, punishable by up to 3 years jail wh hard labor, f, and portatnJuly 14Homosexual activy be 11Homosexual activy be legal.
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Germany fully repealed sectn 175 of the German Crimal Co and legalized homosexual activy 13Homosexual activy be early 1994, Dr John Stubbs troduced a Private Members Bill wh the aim of crimalisg nsensual same-sex acts. Sectn 14 of the Sexual Offenc Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 2 of 1988, set the age of nsent for gay and lbian sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex.
However, the se of Gelnhuys v Natnal Director of Public Prosecutns and Others the Constutnal Court found this discrimatn to be unnstutnal, and set 16 as the uniform age of nsent retroactively to 27 April 31Homosexual activy be vari by regn. Homosexual activy was ferally crimalized by the Human Rights (Sexual Conduct) Act 1994, although some lol state laws remaed nsent until 1Equal age of nsent be age of nsent Belas is 16 years, as stated Articl 168 and 169, which read: "Sexual terurse, sodomy, lbian terurse or other sexual acts mted by adults who have reached eighteen years of age, wh a person who is obvly not reached sixteen years of age, wh no signs of crim envisaged by Articl 166 and 167 of this Co, shall be punished by rtrictn of liberty om two to four years, or imprisonment for a term of two to five years. "and" cent asslt, mted by a person unr eighteen years of age, relatn to a person who obvly has not attaed the age of sixteen, the absence of evince of the crim stipulated Articl 166, 167 and 168 of this Co, shall be punished by imprisonment for up to six months or imprisonment for a term of one to three years "Homosexual activy be form of homosexualy that is illegal is non-nsensual homosexual terurseFebary 1LGBT hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn Human Rights Act 1993 prohibs discrimatn relatn to employment and relig grounds, affirmed by sectn 19 of the NZ Bill of Rights Act 1990, which apply everywhere.