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Same-sex marriage became legal in Norway on 1 January 2009 when a gender-neutral marriage bill came into effect after being passed by the Norwegian legislature, the Storting, in June 2008. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Norway became the first Scandinavian country and the sixth country in the world to legally recognize same-sex marriage.
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, 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).
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.
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.
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]