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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
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.
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]
Slovenia became the latest country to approve same-sex marriage on October 4, 2022, after the court struck down the country's ban in July. The 32 countries around the world where same-sex marriage ...
Taiwan, for instance, became the first place in Asia to make same-sex marriage a reality in 2019. Marriage equality is still, however, largely limited to countries in the Americas, Europe and Oceania.
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).
The top 13 countries with the biggest gay populations are surprisingly very rarely in the list of countries where gay marriage is legal. Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 5 countries with ...
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]