When was gay marriage legalized in new zealand
More than 2000 gay couples have wed in the three years since it was made legal on this daytime in 2013.
Paul McCarthy and Trent Kandler were among the first same-sex couples to wed after the bill passed in 2013. Photo: RNZ
The bill legalising same-sex marriage passed its final reading in Parliament in April, 2013, and came into impact on 19 August, 2013.
It said people can marry, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Statistic Fresh Zealand figures exhibit 2118 same-sex couples have married since the legislation changed.
Almost 970 of those couples have travelled from abroad to marry here.
Labour Party MP Louisa Wall, who sponsored the Marriage Amendment Bill, said it was satisfying to perceive a piece of legislation that really mattered was making a difference.
"All of the hard labor that went into the bill has been worth it for us as a country, it shows others we believe in fundamental human rights, that we are all born free and equal.
"I get mums come up to me and reveal me about their children who hold been able to come out as gay because the bill started a public conversation," Ms Wall said.
She said she underestimated the number of overseas couple
New Zealand legalises same-sex attracted marriage
New Zealand’s parliament has become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalise gay marriage.
Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favour of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading on Wednesday night.
For us, we can now feel same to everyone else
by Tania Penafiel Bermudez, Bank teller
People watching from the public gallery and some lawmakers immediately broke into song after the result was announced, singing the Recent Zealand love anthem “Pokarekare Ana” in the indigenous Maori language.
“For us, we can now perceive equal to everyone else,” said Tania Penafiel Bermudez, a bank teller who said she already considers herself married to partner Sonja Fry but now can get a certificate to verify it. “This means we can experience safe and impartial and right in calling each other wife and wife.”
In one of several speeches that ended in a standing ovation, bill sponsor Louisa Wall told lawmakers the alter was “our highway toward healing”.
“In our society, the interpretation of marriage is universal – it’s a declaration of love and pledge to a particular person,” she said. She added that “nothing could construct me more
NZ legalises same-sex marriage
New Zealand's parliament has passed marriage equality legislation, making it the first country in the Asia-Pacific region and the 13th country worldwide to legalise same-sex marriage.
The bill, which passed 77 votes to 44 on Wednesday, redefines marriage as a union between two people, rather than a guy and woman.
National Party prime minister John Key backed the legislation, which was introduced by Labour MP Louisa Wall.
Ms Hall says the law alter has widespread public encourage, particularly among young people.
She says it shows just how far public opinion has come in New Zealand.
"Nothing could make me prouder to be a Novel Zealander than passing this bill," she said.
Same-sex marriage is legal in:
- New Zealand, 2013
- Uruguay, 2013
- Denmark, 2012
- Argentina, 2010
- Portugal, 2010
- Iceland, 2010
- Sweden, 2009
- Norway, 2009
- South Africa, 2006
- Spain, 2005
- Canada, 2005
- Belgium, 2003
- The Netherlands, 2000
In total, leaders of seven of the country's eight political parties supported the change.
It is due to take effect within four months, which means same-sex attracted couples will be qualified to legally wed in New Zealand as soon as
New Zealand becomes 13th region to legalize gay marriage
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Recent Zealand's parliament voted in favor of allowing queer marriage on Wednesday, prompting cheers, applause and the singing of a traditional Maori celebratory song from the public gallery.
It becomes the 13th country to legalize same-sex marriages, after Uruguay passed its hold law last week. Australia last year rejected a similar proposal.
Countries where such marriages are legal comprise Canada, Spain and Sweden, in addition to some states in the Merged States. France is shut to legalizing same-sex marriages amid increasingly vocal opposition.
Seventy-seven of 121 members of New Zealand’s parliament voted in favor of amending the current 1955 Marriage Act to allow homosexual couples to marry, making New Zealand the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
"Two-thirds of parliament have endorsed marriage equality," Louisa Wall, the openly gay conflict Labor Party MP who promoted the bill, told reporters after the vote. "It shows that we are building on our human rights as a country."
The bill was widely expected to pass, given similar support for the change in a preliminary
NZ legalizes same-sex marriage
Thirty-one same-sex marriages were expected to take place throughout New Zealand as the law took effect on Monday.
The country's parliament amended the Marriage Execute back in April.
The New Zealand activist community Campaign For Marriage Equality hailed the introduction of the new law, saying it ended a historical injustice.
"A massive congratulations to the happy couples tying the knot today. Marriage equality has finally arrived in New Zealand," spokesman Conrad Reyners said.
New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage
Enquiries about holding gay weddings in New Zealand have come in from around the world, including Russia, the United States, Hong Kong, Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, Guyana and Burma.
Among the first to be married was an Australian couple who wed even though their marriage will not be legally recognized at home. Paul McCarthy and Trent Kandler won a Tourism Fresh Zealand competition to hold part in the ceremony.
McCarthy said he hoped the day would come when his marriage would be legally valid in Australia, and said the ceremony had shown that lgbtq+ married couples were "not freaks [and] that there's nothing to f