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23 April 2013 Last updated at 17:51 GMT
Gay marriage around the world
Helene Faasen, left, and Anne-Marie Thus tied the knot in the first legal gay
marriage ceremony
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Since the Netherlands became the first country to allow same-sex marriage 12
years ago, many countries have followed suit.
France is the latest and supporters of gay marriage hope it will soon clear the
final legal hurdles in Britain.
But where in the world can same-sex couples already get married?
Just after midnight on 1 April 2001, four couples -
Anne-Marie Thus and Helene Faasen, and three male couples - were married by the
mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, in the first legal gay marriage
ceremony in the world.
"We are so ordinary, if you saw us on the street you'd just
walk right past us," said Ms Thus of the fuss over the televised City
Hall ceremony.
"The only thing that's going to take some getting used to is calling her my
spouse."
Denmark was the first country to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex
couples, in 1989, but it stopped short of allowing church
weddings.
Countries including Norway, Sweden and Iceland followed suit
in allowing partnerships offering many - but not all - of the rights and
obligations of marriage.
But it was left to the Netherlands to lead the way in
allowing gay marriage, which included granting same-sex couples the
right to adopt children.
It was a move welcomed by international gay rights groups as a huge step
forward. Vatican intervention
A few weeks after neighbours Belgium followed the Netherlands' example in June
2003, the Vatican - in an attempt to stop further
legislation - launched a global campaign against gay marriage.
In a strongly-worded 12-page document, Pope John Paul II's
chief theological adviser, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - who would go on
to become Pope Benedict XVI - warned that homosexual unions were
immoral, unnatural and harmful.
Two years later, despite a 600,000-strong petition organised
by a Catholic group and a rally in Madrid opposing it, same-sex marriage was
introduced in Spain.
Teresa Pires, left, and Helena Paixao were the first same-sex couple to marry
in Portugal
Emilio Menendez and his American partner of 30 years, Carlos
Baturin German, became the first gay couple to tie the knot in Spain, at a
ceremony in Tres Cantos, outside Madrid, on 11 July 2005.
Days later, Canada - where same-sex marriage had already been permitted in most
provinces since 2003 - became the fourth country to
introduce national legislation.
With the US reluctant to follow - a federal law still
prevents US recognition of gay marriage and many states have enacted
outright bans - thousands of gay Americans have visited Canada to get
married since 2003.
Same-sex marriage is now allowed in nine American states as well as the
District of Columbia. Court ruling
South Africa, in November 2006, became the first African
country to bring in marriage for gay couples - despite homosexuality
remaining taboo in large parts of the continent.
That followed a 2004 Supreme Court of Appeal ruling - brought by lesbian couple
Marie Fourie and Cecilia Bonthuys - that existing
marriage laws discriminated against same-sex couples.
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Gay marriage timeline
* Netherlands (2001)
* Belgium (2003)
* Spain (2005)
* Canada (2005)
* South Africa (2006)
* Norway (2009)
* Sweden (2009)
* Portugal (2010)
* Iceland (2010)
* Argentina (2010)
* Denmark (2012)
* Uruguay (2013)
* New Zealand (2013)
* France (2013)
Years that same-sex marriage approved
In January 2009, Norway became
the sixth country to introduce gay marriage followed, in May of the the
same year, by Sweden, while a further three countries followed suit in
2010.
Divorced mothers Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao became the
first gay couple to marry in Portugal, in June 2010 - a month after the
law they had campaigned for came into effect - and hailed it as a "great
victory, a dream come true".
The socialist government in the mainly Catholic country had
faced fierce opposition from campaigners who ultimately failed to get
enough support for a referendum.
Later that month, Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna
Sigurdardottir married her partner, writer Jonina Leosdottir, on the day the
country's gay marriage law came into force.Britain to follow?
In July 2010, meanwhile, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to
legalise gay marriage.
Up until then, Mexico City had been the only place in the
region where same-sex marriage was allowed. And in June 2012, Denmark
became the 11th country to approve same-sex marriage - 23 years after it became
the first country in the world to recognise gay civil
partnerships.
More recently, both houses of Congress in Uruguay backed
same-sex marriage and President Jose Mujica, who supports the bill, is
expected to sign it into law.
In Britain, MPs voted in February 2013 in favour of
legislation allowing gay marriage and the bill is due before the upper
chamber, the House of Lords, where many within the governing
Conservative Party are strongly opposed.
In April 2013, New Zealand's parliament legalised same-sex marriage, passing
the law with a large majority.
In the same month, despite deep divisions on the issue, the French National
Assembly approved gay marriage legislation.
The country's conservative opposition, alongside campaigners
against same-sex marriage, are taking the issue to the constitutional
council, but the council is thought unlikely to block the measure.
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