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The map is outdated.
Greece legalized gay marriage because the current conservative government(which opposed it in the past) decided that it was more useful to deny the "gay marriage" as a weapon for the opposition and made it legal.
Still, only half of their mp supported the bill and the bill passed because the opposition supported it.
The map is outdated.
as the title specifies, it compares years up to 2023. right now it's 2024, which means it's not 2023 anymore. this is how years work.
Yup, Same with Nepal legalizing gay marriage in April 2024.
Sometimes I hate how time is linear.
Love this!
What’s the deal with Asia
Opposition in North Africa, the Middle East and parts of South and South East Asia is at least partially explained by religious political ideology.
Russia, as the biggest area, and China might be fueled by opposition to their percieved cultural enemies.
I don't know why India and Japan haven't legalised marriage equality yet.
Non religious conservatism is a thing. Those countries also tend to be much worse on women's rights too.
India? the country with deeply rooted religious society that has little regard for women in general? that India would go for equality?
A 2023 Pew survey found 53% of Indians being for recognizing same sex marriage and 43% against (for comparison Switzerland in their 2021 referendum had 64% for and 36% against same sex marriage).
India relatively recently decriminalized gay sex and passed a law legally recognizing the gender trans people choose to identify as, and the national health insurance covers abortions and transitioning.
Its not as simple as your comment makes it out to be, equality in marriage might sometime be recognized.
eastern countries have varying levels of it. most are fine with couples, but they havent tied the relationship to the legal version of it.
Taiwan i think is the only region that outright performs it. Thailand is probably up next as they already have many rights in.(edit: they it it very recently) other countries like Cambodia, Japan and such have some rights to gay couples, but they arent entirely 1:1 to their hetero couples yet. The graph probably represents gay marriage being analogous to all rights offered to both types of couples in a binary fashion.
Wow BC and Ontario killing it, who would have thought
I know I’m so proud.
I was so sure this map was wrong showing nothing in the UK in the first map, but civil unions came in in 04 not 03.
Also its crazy how this is almost entirely limited to Europe and places with strong historical ties to Europe (with the notable exception of Taiwan)
Why? Who else would come before that? Europe & North America are the most progressive places on Earth for quite a while now.
Its not that its first that is surprising, its that with one exception its only them.
Again: Who else? The rest of the world is in varying degrees of "ass backwards", especially regarding social issues. Hell, a lot of them aren't even moving forward but backward.
I'd really expect southeast asia next considering historical support for third genders there
The thing is that Abrahamic religions were extremely ass backwards on this issue for the longest time. My expectation would be that countries with a majority of atheists or buddhists would never have been as ass backwards about gays in the first place.
IIRC China is supposedly atheist, and so was the Soviet Union, but things were not particularly rosy there either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_the_Soviet_Union
Whether religion or not, it's often a case of despicable hardliners taking charge and making things worse for pretty much everyone but them.
I think Thailand should also be blue
The last map is based on data from 2023, so some things have changed since then.
I thought they literally only just allowed same-sex marriage.
No heterosexual marriage allowed?
It's a good overview. As a bonus I would love to see the number of people affected (in absolute numbers and share of global population) in each category for each point in time.
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