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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 Legal gender change recognized as a constitutional right since 2017 [148] Eswatini: Male illegal since the 1880s (not enforced, repeal proposed) [149] Penalty: Unknown Female always legal [68] [97] Lesotho: Male legal since 2012 Female always legal [68] Bans some anti-gay discrimination. [150] [151]
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).
Here is where same-sex marriage is legal: Since 2001, when the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage, there have been ramped-up efforts worldwide to pass similar ...
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.
A new citizens' initiative was started on 29 March 2015 aiming to rescind the new marriage law. The new initiative collected almost 110,000 signatures by 29 September 2015 but it was rejected by the Legal Affairs Committee and later voted down by the full Parliament on 17 February 2017, by 120–48. The new marriage law took effect on 1 March 2017.
This article contains a timeline of significant events regarding same-sex marriage and legal recognition of same-sex couples worldwide. It begins with the history of same-sex unions during ancient times, which consisted of unions ranging from informal and temporary relationships to highly ritualized unions, and continues to modern-day state-recognized same-sex marriage.
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 ...