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Same-sex marriage in Sweden has been legal since 1 May 2009, following the adoption of a new gender-neutral law on marriage by the Swedish Parliament on 1 April 2009, making Sweden the seventh country in the world to open marriage to same-sex couples nationwide. Marriage replaced Sweden's registered partnerships for same-sex couples.
Bans all anti-gay discrimination Under French law Madagascar: Legal (No laws against same-sex sexual activity have ever existed in the country); Age of consent discrepancy [68] Bans some anti-gay discrimination. Mauritius: Legal since 2023 [140] + UN decl. sign. Bans all anti-gay discrimination [141] [142] Mayotte (Overseas region of France) Legal
Article 2 of the Marriage Law declares "one husband and one wife" as one of the principles guiding marriages. The principle, first codified in 1950, was intended to outlaw polygamy, but is now also interpreted to disallow same-sex marriages. Many other articles of the same law also assume the marriage is a heterosexual union. [citation needed]
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2025, [update] marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
2 April: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. [383] 21 May: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí. [384] 24 May: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Taiwan, the first Asian country to do so. [385] 11 June: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. [386]
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In the 1980s, early United Nations reports on the HIV/AIDS pandemic made some reference to homosexuality.. In its 1994 decision in Toonen v.Australia, the UN Human Rights Committee—which is responsible for the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)—declared that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex relations between adults are in violation of international human ...
Debate has occurred throughout Asia over proposals to legalize same-sex marriage as well as civil unions. Following a Constitutional Court ruling and a subsequent legislative act, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide on 24 May 2019, [1] followed by Thailand on 23 January 2025. [2]