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| Where does marriage equality exist?; as of February 13, 2015 | |
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| Alfoldia | 13 Feb 2015, 12:56 Post #1 |
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Homotextual
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These are the areas that perform gay marriages, although do note that in some jurisdictions this may not involve certain rights (e.g. adoption rights). Argentina: #10, 2010-07-22 Belgium: #2, 2003-06-01 Brazil: provincially from 2011-12-07, nationwide #12 as of 2013-05-16 Canada: provincially from 2003-06-10, nationwide #4 as of 2005-07-20 Denmark proper: #11, 2012-06-15 France: #13, 2013-05-18 Iceland: #9, 2010-06-27 Luxembourg: #16, 2015-01-01 three jurisdictions in Mexico (Coahuila, Quintana Roo, and the Distrito Federal): beginning 2010-03-04; federal recognition 2010-08-10 the Netherlands proper (including Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius): #1, as of 2001-04-01 New Zealand proper: #15, 2013-08-19 Norway: #6, 2009-01-01 Portugal: #8, 2010-06-05 South Africa: #5, 2006-11-30 Spain: #3, 2005-07-03 Sweden: #7, 2009-05-01 three constituent countries of the United Kingdom (England, Wales, and Scotland): beginning 2014-03-13 thirty-seven states in the United States (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas -- though statewide recognition and benefits are not yet guaranteed, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington-DC, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, and twenty-one Native American tribes): state legalization beginning in 2004-05-17, federal recognition 2013-06-26 Uruguay: #14, 2013-08-05 SOURCES: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage) and Human Rights Campaign's Marriage Center (http://www.hrc.org/campaigns/marriage-center) |
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| Alfoldia | 13 Feb 2015, 13:13 Post #2 |
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Homotextual
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Civil unions provide some (or sometimes the same) benefits to same-sex couples and exist legally in the following jurisdictions (individual cities not included): Andorra five Australian states (Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria) Austria Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Ecuador Finland Germany Gibraltar Greenland Hungary Ireland Isle of Man Jersey Liechtenstein Malta three Mexican states (Campeche, Colima, Jalisco) Slovenia Switzerland one constituent country of the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) Chile and Estonia's provisions for civil unions have not come into effect. edited for SOURCE: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_union) |
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| BearNation | 15 Feb 2015, 01:48 Post #3 |
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Bobby Butterpaws
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FABULOUS work, Alfoldia!
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