same-sex marriages

Tag: same-sex marriages

Human rights

18.June 2024 SZ/CNN

A monumental step forward: Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage

Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the kingdom's Senate approved a marriage equality bill on Tuesday, with supporters calling it a "monumental step forward for the rights of the LGBTQ+ community."

LGBT community

16.February 2024. CSR

Greece: Parliament approves same-sex marriage law

On Thursday, February 15, the Greek parliament approved a law that gives same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children. 176 out of 300 deputies voted for the law. Greece is the first majority Christian nation to approve such a law

Same-sex marriages

14.August 2023 MN

Belgrade Pride: Aleksandar Vučić discriminates against citizens

In an address on Pink TV, the President of Serbia said that he will not sign the same-sex marriage law. Belgrade Pride accused him of discriminating against citizens, noting that laws based on the personal affinities of politicians "are passed in autocratic and dictatorial regimes".

The World

07.August 2023 AE

Pope Francis: The Church is open to LGBT people, but it has laws

Unlike previous leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis is much more tolerant towards the LGBT community, but not completely. At this year's Catholic festival in Portugal, he called for peace and solidarity among young people, regardless of their sexuality.