Countries with Same-Sex/Gay Marriage

Estonia and Luxembourg have legalized gay marriage!

What about the UK? Haven't they fully legalized it? Or is it still illegal in Northern Ireland?

It's still illegal in Northern Ireland, despite a majority for the Assembly voting in favour of it in 2015. The DUP used the 'petition of concern' to veto it.

And Finland in 2017 ;)

Ireland should be added

Not necessarily. Taiwan didn't pick a date to implement the law and might wait until 2019. Plenty of things might happen in the meantime, and it could even end up not being the first Asian country with gay marriage since Nepal, Vietnam, Thailand and Japan are considering passing the law.

I did a trekking in Nepal 2 years ago and our guide (who constantly held my hand while explaining something) 'confirmed' there are no gay people in his country... Even if they are - finally - thinking of passing that law, they still have a lot of work to do to create acceptance amongst their population. The guide was an educated young man btw... sad

Australia and Taiwan should be added.

And Germany and Malta

Ditto.

The government should not be involved in marriage. The power to make gay marriage legal is the same as the power to make interracial marriage illegal. Our freedom shouldn't be contingent on the whims of politicians.

But... the government saying it's legal IS the government getting out of it. They're saying that the government can't stop two people from getting married just because of their gender. And that's exactly WHY things like this NEED to be enshrined in law, so that politicians CAN'T just change things on a whim.

As long as marriage is a recognized civil institution with legal implications this argument is invalid. But moreover, if you believe that people have a right to get married at all then barring certain kinds of people from getting married is discriminatory and unconstitutional.

I have a Mormon friend who would agree with you.

cool, I'd probably agree with your Mormon friend.

Unfortunately, there is NO right to marriage. Government has taken that right away. I had to get a marriage license (permission) to get married to my wife. Marriage licenses started post Civil War in the US. If ANY higher authority has to be involved prior to the performance of any action, that is not a right. That is a privilege. The real issue, Constitutionally, is the ninth and tenth amendment. The Federal Government has no legal authority to force States into recognizing gay marriage. The other issue is these quizzes are supposed to be fun and not politically charged and the fact that this quiz is on here to open itself up for this kind of debate is stupid. Is there a "Countries that allow slavery" quiz? I guess I will create it.

JDWI, yeah I already made that quiz, and there's a featured quiz on the site on the same subject. Why is this stupid? Get over it.

So, I know this may be a stretch but, what happens once a big majority of countries have legalized it, the quiz will have lost its point and be a "name a lot of countries" quiz.

There will be a point at which the 'countries that do not permit same-sex marriage' will make more sense. That's still some time in the future - very many countries (numerically) will persist in this category for decades to come. But, it is great to have to take this quiz each year again as the list grows. I'm not in the same-sex relationship group, but I am really happy that this topic is becoming routine in so many places around the world. Only 20 years ago, it was still a far-off aspiration in every country in the world. In 20 years from now, we will wonder what people were thinking back in the 'old days'.

It'll be weird in 30 years when kids will look back on this and think "How can the government not allow two people of the same sex from getting married?", and then I'll feel old for remembering when it was a debate and all.

I find it interesting to see how fast such a law can spread nowadays. Women vote and abolition of death penalty took way more time to be adopted by as much countries and some still don't have it.

I think the rapid progress has a lot to do with the fact the homosexuality is not correlated to race, class, income, or geography. Most people who oppose progress for marginalized groups have a stigmatized view of those groups because they don't interact with them. The white suburban people I know are "tough on crime" because they don't know any poor people and don't appreciate the link between poverty and crime. But a lot of them have softened their views on homosexuality since they found out they have a gay nephew, neighbor, coworker, and or whatever, and realized through direct interaction that, hey, he's just like everybody else and he deserves to be happy. And now that homosexuals are more visible and accepted, people who are gay are more willing to come out and be known, which increases the community's visibility exponentially and further normalizes it. It's a great ripple effect.

surprised not to see the vatican...

The whole country is same-sex

Look up "celibacy in the Catholic Chuch" please.

Northern Ireland, m'afraid.

got Malta with 1 second remaining :D

Austria should join this list in 2019; as long as the Austrian Parliament doesn't amend the marriage laws, the current law states it will be legal as of January 1, 2019.

Not Northern Ireland, the DUP. And thankfully they have now been over ruled.

Aye but not Northern Ireland or IIRC some of the overseas territories. So unfortunately we can't yet correctly say gay marriage is legal in the United Kingdom, though it is in Great Britain.

January 1st 2019: AUSTRIA JOINS THE LIST! :D

I like to find meaningful quizzes to get me to the next level. This one got me to 67!

I'm french and i forget... France Le con

I get your point, but I think if we want to talk numbers it would be more correct to talk about it in terms of number of countries and those countries' percentage of world population. There's some sizably populated countries on this list. Of course, if we want to talk about that, we have to remember that it could be legalized in 194 countries and still only cover about 2/3 of the world's population if you exclude China and India. And I don't think it's about to happen there anytime soon.

Looks like I won't be visiting Luxembourg any time soon. (Nothing to do with same sex marriage, just no plans to be there).

It's fascinating to see the way it began with a few countries and really snowballed in the last 10 years or so. This list might be a lot bigger in another 10 years!

This progressive stuff is getting annoying. I wonder if polygamy is in the plans for legalization.

It's annoying that you can marry who you love?

What annoys you about not being able to interfere in people's personal life choices that don't affect you or anybody else?

If other people's decisions that do not affect you life in any way annoy you then you should seek professional help. How would you like the whole population of your nation having a say on who you can or cannot be in a relationship with?

Every country should be on this list

Marriage shouldn't exist.

I guess that up for each individual person to decide? What works for me may not work for you and that's okay. We all should be free to decide as long as all the involved are consenting adults.

India legalized gay marriage this year too! (2018)

Yes, India needs to be here.

Sadly no, not yet--last year India only legalized homosexuality. Still a long way to go toward recognizing marriage.

Austria needs to be here.

Taiwan now officially made the list.:) Time for an update!

Taiwan, Austria, Ecuador

How come so long?

If you wait until after 13th January you can add the UK, as parliament is finally making Northern Ireland recognise same-sex marriage too regardless of what the DUP wants.

just in time for their divorce from Europe

In Italy same sex civil unions are recognized, not marriages.

Yeah, I remember recently a same-sex couple from Italy brought their daughter to be baptized at my church here in Canada, because they couldn't do it in Italy. It was really touching.

I'm really hoping this quiz will have a lot more Countries in a couple of years..

Got them all with one second to spare, nice quiz!

Depends how you define marriage, I think.

probably they have "civil unions" or something like that.

Glad to see this list getting longer and longer! I hope Italy will join soon

When you get a chance to update, maybe include Mexico as well? Same sex marriage has been legal since 2018 :)

Thank god Northern Ireland's finally decided to catch up

Nepal and Thailand's cabinets are considering the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2020.