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A Japanese court ruled for the first time that the country’s constitution gives same-sex couples the right to enjoy the legal benefits of marriage, a pathbreaking decision in a region of the world that generally bars same-sex marriage.

With one foot already in the door, the chances of the courts in India recognizing same-sex marriage at par with heterosexual marriage look optimistic.

This week, a pair of women from the Mehlville area of south St. Louis County got married just outside St. Louis City Hall. They were part of a much larger movement of pop-up weddings there within the past week — all designed to highlight concerns within the LGBTQ community related to the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

Before it was legal for LGBTQ people to commit in the eyes of the law, they adopted one another, took up "Boston Marriages," and otherwise found ways to become more officially partnered.

Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado, who supported same-sex marriage during his candidacy and marched during the 2019 pride parade in San José, shared a lengthy message of support for marriage equality.

Same-sex couples in Costa Rica will be able to marry as of May 26, when a judicial provision that authorizes these marriages will enter into force. 

Costa Rica is set to become the first country in Central America to approve gay marriage

Same-sex marriages are not recognized in South Korea, but calls for change are beginning.

Pamela Troya and Gabriela Correa spent six years fighting Ecuador’s justice system for the right to marry.

How a clerical error led to the first legal gay marriage in Costa Rica

Japan requires transgender people to be sterilised before they can get married

While some safeguards are in place, advocates for the LGBTQ community say more protections are needed, especially around areas of parentage as reproductive technology evolves.

“We might be good at producing watches, and our trains might be on time, but ironically we’re always late.”

Two female soldiers and their civilian partners are due to take part in this year’s ceremony

Same-sex marriage became legal across Canada on July 20, 2005. Two Toronto couples tell the Star about the progress they’ve seen, and the work that...

More than half a million same-sex couples have tied the knot in the U.S

Marco Castillo and his boyfriend, Rodrigo Campos, waited just a few hours to take advantage of a new law in Costa Rica that made the country the first in Central America to allow same-sex marriage.

Taiwan on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of legalising same-sex marriage, as gay couples and rights groups called for full recognition of unions involving foreigners. Rights groups estimated at least 1,000 international same-sex couples are waiting for their unions to be recognised in Taiwan.

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is among companies participating in the initiative, with certificates to be created by Famiee Project.

Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards will be the first same-sex couple to marry in Northern Ireland, a milestone activists have been anticipating for years.

More than 30 groups have joined a campaign that seeks to bolster support for marriage rights for same-sex couples in Costa Rica.

In Thailand, the ruling coalition and opposition lawmakers don’t agree on much. Yet within both camps there’s growing support for legalizing same-sex unions.

Public acceptance is improving, but in some cases Chinese authorities are moving in the other direction

A proposed reform of Cuba’s constitution would shape the island’s future for years, but Cubans seem to be more interested in wrangling over gay marriage than a multiparty system in debates on a new Constitution.