April 1 in History
2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it
A bill for the legalisation of same-sex marriage was passed in the House of Representatives by 109 votes to 33 on September 12, 2000, and by the Senate by 49 votes to 26 on December 19, 2000. The law received royal assent by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on December 21, 2000, and took effect on this day in 2001. The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, special municipalities of the Netherlands, since October 10, 2012. The three other constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao,[3] and Sint Maarten, do not perform same-sex marriages.
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Photo Caption – Two men marrying in Amsterdam on April 1, 2001, the first day on which the possibility to marry was opened to same-sex couples in the Netherlands –Wikipedia
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