Have you ever seen how gay marriage take place? What are gay people – black gay men or young gay boys like? What does lgbt community consist of? What are gay couple rights?
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
Homo marriage – is a union between people who are representatives of the same sex. Today gay marriages and gay women marriages are registered in more them 20 countries throughout the world.
First time official gay relationship was introduced approximately in 2001 on the territory of the Netherlands. It is necessary to differentiate gay marriage from other various forms of lgbt communities.
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
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The fact of marriage gives this couple some gay rights, such as: equal right to joint property, the right to alimony, the right to inheritance, social and medical insurance, preferential taxation and crediting, the right for the same surname, the right not to testify in court against a spouse, the right to act as trustee on behalf of wife in case of disability, the right to joint parenting and foster care and other rights that they unregistered couples are deprived of.
“spouse 1 and spouse 2”, “parent 1” and “parent 2”
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
Opponents of lgbt believe in recognition and registration of same-sex marriage changes in the principles of civil law, which will replace the words “husband” and “wife”, “father” and “mother” with the asexual and more general terms (“spouse 1 and spouse 2”, “parent 1” and “parent 2”).
The meaning of words may change as the situation develops. In recent years, in the most authoritative dictionaries a definition of the word “marriage” according to gender has disappeared. So, in the Oxford dictionary of the English language the concept of “gay marriage” appeared in 2000.
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
In 2012 the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish language has been enriched with a new meaning of the word “marriage”: a union of two people of the same sex in some countries and territories.
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In the press gay men and gay women are considered quite negatively. However, most of the USA media has retreated from this practice. The Associated Press recommends the use of the word “marriage” for gays and lesbians, and allows such form as “gay marriage” only in titles, without the quotes, at the same time setting out against the use of this structure, as it creates a sense of legal inequality of same-sex marriage compared to opposite-sex.
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
The limits imposed on homo or gay people are individual for each country, but with common shades: same-sex unions have the same legal norms on property rights and inheritance rights as heterosexual couples, but there are limitations on the adoption of children, artificial insemination and surrogacy.
Gay couple and lesbian marriage statistics since 2001. Have a look and get acquainted with the list of countries who were the first to agree about gay marriage and gay relationship itself:
• The Netherlands – 1 April 2001
• Belgium — January 2003
• Spain — June 2005
• Canada — July 2005
• South Africa — November 2006
• Norway — January 2009
• Sweden — may 2009
• Portugal — may 2010
• Iceland — June 2010
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
• Argentina — July 2010
• Mexico – March 2010
• Denmark — June 2012
• Brazil — may 2013
• France – may 2013
• Guiana — may 2013
• Uruguay — August 2013
• New Zealand — August 2013
• Malta — March 2014
Britain:
— England and Wales, Scotland — March 2014
— Ireland — may 2015
United reformed Church (URC) in Great Britain voted to allow same-sex couples to marry in their premises – July 2016
• Luxembourg — January 2015
• Macao — March 2015
• Japan, Tokyo: Shibuya — March 2015
• Setagaya — November 2015
• USA (all States) — June 2015
• Greenland — 2015
• Finland — a law passed in December 2014, will come into force in March 2017.
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
Controversial status of lgbt community marriages has been gained by the following countries:
• Colombia
In July 2011 the constitutional court of Colombia ordered the Colombian Congress to adopt the legal framework on lesbian and gay families for 2 years. If before June 20, 2013 this was not accepted by relevant legislation, this time gay women and young gay boys in this country automatically have the right to marry. Up to this day, courts have already issued a set of marriage licenses for about 30 gay people. However, the status of being considered as spouses remained controversial because of the legal inconsistencies in the legislation of the country.
• Costa Rica
In July 2013, the Legislative Assembly (Parliament) of the country accidentally voted for the amendment to the law about youth. If earlier Family code for civil marriages of Costa Ricans aged 15 to 35 years old just told about marriage between men and women, now it includes the words: “the right to recognition without discrimination of human dignity”. These words have legalized gay marriages. De jure it is quite possible to have gay marriage in Costa Rica, but de facto authorities ban such gay relationship, based on the fact that almost 73% of residents of Costa Rica do not support the idea of gay marriage. So in September 2013, the family court in San Jose rejected the claim of homosexual couple living together for 6 years. Men wanted to recognize their relationship as “official marriage”, but the judge denied.
Mexico states
In June 2015, the Supreme court of Mexico has recognized the ban on lesbians and gay “marriages” contrary to the Constitution, thus de jure, the Supreme court lifted restrictions on the same-sex marriage throughout all the Mexico. Judge of the Supreme court of Mexico Olga Sanchez demanded to legalize gay couple marriages in that States of Mexico where such relationship is still illegal.
Gay marriage: Which countries allow it?
Same-sex unions are recognized by some other countries: Israel, Venezuela, China (1997), Taiwan, Hong Kong (from 1991), Japan (1980), Mongolia (since 2002), North and South Korea.
The most popular places of marriage of same-sex couples are Canada and the United States, the third top place is occupied by Israel.
The laws of Taiwan do not recognize same-sex marriages. However, the six cities have their own laws, according to which lesbians and gays can register their relationship.
22 Oct 2013 the capital of Australia – Canberra became the first region in Australia, which legalized same-sex marriage. But on December 12, 2013, the High court of Australia overturned a law allowing same-sex marriages on the Australian capital territory.
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