Gay Marriage Around the World

[Guns R Cool]

I spent a few hours putting this together so that everyone could have a quick reference to gay rights in all 50 states and almost all countries and the major territories across the world.

The United States

Legal Gay Marriage
-Massachusetts*

Civil Union
-Vermont

Benefits
-California*
-Hawaii (DOMA)
-Nevada *~ (DOMA proposed for Legislative and Constitutional)

Gay Marriage Ban

Constitutional
-Alaska (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Arkansas (DOMA)
-Georgia (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Kentucky (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Louisiana (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Michigan (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Mississippi (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Missouri (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Montana (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Nebraska (DOMA-Constitutional Only)
-Nevada (DOMA-Constitutional Only)
-North Dakota (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Ohio (DOMA-Constitutional)
-Oklahoma (DOMA)*
-Oregon (DOMA-Constitutional Only)
-Pennsylvania (DOMA-Constitutional Bill to be proposed)
-Utah (DOMA-Constitutional)

Legislative
-Alabama (DOMA)
-Arizona (DOMA)
-Colorado (DOMA)
-Connecticut^
-Delaware (DOMA)*
-Florida (DOMA)
-Idaho (DOMA)*
-Illinois (DOMA)*
-Indiana (DOMA)
-Iowa (DOMA)
-Kansas (DOMA)
-Maine (DOMA)
-Maryland
-Minnesota (DOMA)
-New Hampshire
-North Carolina (DOMA)
-South Carolina (DOMA)
-South Dakota (DOMA)
-Tennessee (DOMA)*
-Texas (DOMA)*
-Virginia (DOMA)*
-Washington (DOMA)
-West Virginia (DOMA)*
-Wisconsin (No DOMA)*
-Wyoming


None
-New Mexico
-New York (Bills to ban and recognize gay marriage proposed)^~
-Rhode Island (Bill to recognize gay marriage proposed)^

DOMA-Defense Of Marriage Act 1996
(DOMA)-State Law
(DOMA-Constitutional)-State Law and Constitutional Amendment
(DOMA-Constitutional Only)-Constitutional Amendment only
If Blank-State Law pre-dates DOMA
(No DOMA)-DOMA was never adopted
*Amendment to ban gay marriage proposed/going through Congress
~Legislative to ban gay marriage proposed/going through Congress
^Bill introduced/going through to allow gay marriage

Conclusion: 1 state allows gay marriage while 4 states allow civil unions and/or benefits to same-sex partners. 42 states have banned gay marriage by state law and/or a constitutional amendment. 3 states have no laws on gay marriage or gay rights. There are 14 proposed bills and amendments going through the State Congress to ban gay marriage. There are 3 bills and no amendments going through State Congress to allow gay marriage.


The World

Legal Gay Marriage
-Belgium (2003)
-Canada (2005)
-Netherlands (2001)
-Spain (12 of 14 provinces, 1998)
-South Africa (Legislative passed and will take effect in Dec 2006)

Civil Unions/Benefits Recognized by the State
-Andorra (2005)
-Argentina (Buenos Aires, Rio Negro, 2003)
-Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul only, 2004)
-Croatia (2003)
-Czech Republic (2006)
-Denmark (1989)
-Finland (2002)
-France (1999)
-Germany (2001)
-Greenland (1996)
-Hungary (1996)
-Iceland (1996)
-Israel (1994)
-Italy (10 Regions, 2004)
-Luxembourg (2004)
-New Zealand (2004)
-Norway (1996)
-Portugal (2001)
-Slovenia (2006)
-Sweden (1996)
-Switzerland (starting 2007)
-United Kingdom (2005)

Gay Marriage Banned/Not Recognized by State
-Albania
-Armenia
-Aruba
-Australia (More laws against same-sex couples than for)
-Austria
-Azerbaijan
-Bahamas
-Belarus
-Belize
-Benin
-Bolivia
-Bosnia and Herzegovina
-Burkina Faso
-Burundi
-Cambodia
-Cape Verde
-Chad
-Central African Republic
-Chile
-China
-Columbia
-Comoros
-Congo
-Costa Rico
-Cyprus
-Dutch Antilles
-Ecuador
-El Salvador
-Equatorial Guinea
-Eritrea
-Estonia
-Falkland Islands
-Faroe Islands
-French Guyana
-French Polynesia (Tahiti)
-Gabon
-Georgia
-Guadeloupe
-Guatemala
-Guinea-Bissau
-Haiti
-Honduras
-Hong Kong
-Indonesia
-Ireland
-Ivory Coast
-Japan
-Jordan
-Kazakhstan
-Kosovo
-Kyrgyzstan
-Laos
-Latvia
-Lesotho
-Liberia
-Liechtenstein
-Lithuania
-Macau
-Madagascar
-Mali
-Malta
-Martinique
-Moldova
-Monaco
-Montenegro
-Netherlands Antilles
-New Caledonia
-Niger
-Panama
-Paraguay
-Peru
-Philippines
-Poland
-Puerto Rico
-Reunion
-Romania
-Russia
-Rwanda
-San Marino
-Sao Tome and Principe
-Slovakia
-South Korea
-Suriname
-Taiwan
-Tajikistan
-Thailand
-Ukraine
-Uruguay
-Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
-Venezuela
-Vietnam
-Vojvodina

Sodomy Illegal
-Afghanistan*
-Algeria
-Angola
-Antigua and Barbuda
-Bahrain
-Bangladesh
-Barbados
-Botswana
-Brunei
-Burma (Myanmar)
-Cameroon
-Cook Islands
-Djibouti
-Ethiopia
-Fiji
-Ghana
-Grenada
-Guinea
-Guyana^
-India^
-Iran*
-Iraq*
-Jamaica
-Kenya
-Kiribati
-Kuwait
-Lebanon
-Libya
-Malaysia
-Maldives^
-Marshall Islands
-Mauritania*
-Mauritius
-Mongolia
-Morocco
-Mozambique
-Namibia
-Nauru
-Nepal^
-Nicaragua
-Nigeria
-Niue
-Oman
-Pakistan*^
-Papua New Guinea
-Qatar
-Saint Lucia
-Samoa
-Saudi Arabia*
-Senegal
-Serbia
-Seychelles
-Sierra Leone
-Singapore^
-Solomon Islands
-Somalia
-Sri Lanka
-Sudan*
-Swaziland
-Syria
-Tanzania
-Togo
-Tokelau
-Tonga
-Trinidad and Tobago (homosexuals can't enter country)
-Tunisia
-Turkmenistan
-Tuvalu
-Uganda
-United Arab Emirates
-Uzbekistan
-Yemen*
-Zaire
-Zambia
-Zimbabwe

Homosexuality Legal in Privacy, but Public Displays are Illegal (Imprisonment)
-Bulgaria
-Cuba
-Dominican Republic
-Egypt
-Turkey (gay groups can be banned)

Other
-Greece (Gay Co-Worker relationships, gay relationships for profit illegal)
-Macedonia (Gays cannot practice law)
-Mexico (Gays barred from water parks)
-North Korea (Homosexuality is viewed as a Capitalist disease)

*Death (Not always, but usually)
^Life Imprisonment (Not always, but usually)

Note: Banned/Not recognized list contains a few countries who allow minimal same-sex rights. Mostly it is acquisition of assets from a same-sex life partner after death. Most Banned/Not Recognized Countries have anti-discrimination laws, including Greece.

Conclusion: 5 countries allow gay marriage while 22 countries allow civil unions and/or benefits to same-sex couples. 101 countries banned or do not recognize same-sex relationships while 76 countries have banned homosexuality all together. 5 countries allow homosexuality in the bedroom but any signs of affection in public are illegal. 4 countries have specific discriminatory laws.

Note: Country results do include rights that have yet to come into effect.
Note: Almost every country is listed while several major territories are listed.
Note: The last two groupings are totaled into the banned/do not recognized group

Any mistakes that you may find please do not hesitate to PM me and I will correct them with a reference to you for finding it.

[alwaysRight]

Well we just had a thread about gay marriage blow up to about 5 pages over night. This list shows more people around the world are against gays being allowed to marry.

Thanks GRC for the list. Now when people say it's only America who is "punishing the gays" or whatever excuse they use, I can let them know it's MANY more countries!

[Peace_by_superior _power]

Gays as consenting adults have every right to do what consenting adults want to do, but with divorce marriage isnt even a sacred bond anymore. Allowing homosexuals to marry would even further weaken the meaning of marriage. This is more and more of the lefts attacks on the traditional family and trying to undermind the american way. Also in their quest to be politicly correct they look over a major issue and thats the children of these gay couples. im still in high school and over the littlest things people are cruel, imagine how a child with "two daddies" would be treated, but i guess the liberals would pull the double standered and say f u to freedom of speech and call it a hate crime, unless it was a minority making this "hate speech" then it would be interesting.:icon_lol:

[Dagummit]

Good job GRC on collecting those figures!

[WhiteAfricanAmerican]

South Africa (Legislative passed and will take effect in Dec 2006)

*WAA Hangs his head in shame*

I guess I can use the excuse I'm American now, right?






Come on sonny, set the record staright.

Seems to me Yukon is lookin for a boyfriend. Reminds me of when George Michael got busted for asking an undercover cop to give him a BJ.

Seek help Yukon

[rightwingxtremist]

You actually spent a lot of time putting together this drivel.

Drivel? Hardly! GRC has assembled a very interesting collection of information with which to discern basic patterns of support for or against gay manage, and to identify how much (or should I say little) the cancer of gay marriage has spread.

No one is forcing you to read this thread let alone reply to it. Why not take responsibility for your own pen and forward some sort of rational argument for a position once in a while?

- N

[Peace_by_superior _power]

hey RWE dont pay any attention to you com he gets off on saying crap like that, i dont ignore him only cause i enjoy a good laugh at his sorry excuse for logic. o well i hope u stay around longer instead of popping in and out

[Guns R Cool]

I put this together to show to liberals that gay marriage will not be taking the world over by storm. When you were kids, how many gay marriage laws did we have? All of this just occured recently and shows that a rather large majority of people do not support gay marriage. There are more attempt to ban gay marriage than attempts to legalize it.

[Dr. Madd]

I noticed Mongolia on the lists of folks that banned Sodomy. Go Mongolia! Go Romania!

[WhiteAfricanAmerican]

This message has been deleted by Wadi66. Reason: back off grampa



:roflmao1:


BACK OFF GRAMPA!!!!! ROFLMAO!!!!

Shit Wadi, I have coke comming out of my nose after that one, thanks a lot.

[The anti liberal]

Very informative Guns. You must have been a strait A student.

[Dr. Madd]

Yes, nice research work.