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Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. As of 2025, marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% of the world's population).
The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting a man and a woman dates back to approximately 2350 BC, in ancient Mesopotamia. [299] Wedding ceremonies, as well as dowry and divorce, can be traced back to Mesopotamia and Babylonia .
22 May: The Republic of Ireland is the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage and its constitutional protection by a popular vote in a referendum. There was a yes vote of 62% to a no vote of 38%. [321] 26 May: Greenland's parliament, by a vote of 27–0, unanimously approves same-sex marriage. The law entered into force on 1 ...
There is history of recorded same-sex unions around the world. [3] Various types of same-sex unions have existed, ranging from informal, unsanctioned relationships to highly ritualized unions. Same-sex unions were known in Ancient Greece and Rome, [ 3 ] ancient Mesopotamia , [ 4 ] in some regions of China, such as Fujian province, and at ...
The first recorded same-sex marriage occurs during his reign, homosexual prostitution is taxed, and if someone is caught being sexually passive with another male, a Roman citizen could lose his citizenship. [44] 26, 25 and 18 BCE – Tibullus writes his elegies, with references to homosexuality.
James Michael McConnell [56] (born 1942) and Richard John "Jack" Baker (born 1942) [57] [58] became the first legally married same-sex couple in United States history. [59] Their marriage is also "the earliest same-gender marriage ever to be recorded in the public files of any civil government." [60] [61]
The first recorded age-of-consent law, in England, dates back 800 years. The age of consent law in question has to do with the law of rape and not the law of marriage as sometimes misunderstood. In 1275, in England, as part of the rape law, the Statute of Westminster 1275 , made it a misdemeanor to have sex with a "maiden within age", whether ...
Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.