Yesterday, January 8th, Portugal became the 6th country in Europe and the 8th in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
The portuguese parliament approved the law to legalize homosexual marriage, and now the draft law will be reviewed before the the final vote. After being approved, the new law, will have to be proclaimed and signed by the president. Although the law doesn't include adoption - the proposals to allow same-sex couples to adopt were rejected - most LGBT organizations in Portugal support the measure as an important step towards equality.
Some countries only recently started to consent, perform and recognize what the canadian parliament defined as “the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others”. The equality before the law was achieved first in the Netherlands (2001), then Belgium (2003), Spain and Canada (2005), South Africa (2006) and in Norway and Sweden (2009).
Currently several countries across the world are fighting for the same rights or at least better ones, as in others the universal human rights aren't even respected being homosexuality illegal. In those countries were homosexuality is a crime, punishments from minimal or large penalties, to life in prison and even the death penalty are executed!
«Love is not about gender...»
so let's fight for our rights and for equality!
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