Australia said I do!1 min read

On Wednesday the 61.6% of the Australian population voted to allow same-sex marriages, as the Australian Bureau of Statistics said, with only the 38.4% voting against.

Around 12.7 millions of people voted across the country through a two-month national postal survey, and the great majority of them was in favour of same sex marriages.

This is a big step for Australia which was still one of the few major English speaking countries not to have legalised same-sex marriages yet.

It was first made legal in South Africa in 2006, with the ‘Civil Union Act’; in the UK in 2014, and finally all across the United Stated in 2015.

The first Country in the world to legalize same-sex marriages was the Netherlands where it became lawful on August 2001, more the sixteen years ago now!

Same-sex marriages have been around for a long time and it’s not something new. For instance, same-sex marriage was practised in the Ancient times in Mesopotamia and also in the Roman Empire.

The first Roman emperor to be married to a man was Nero, who had more than one same-sex unions, that included freedman Pythagoras.

They were lawful until the Theodosian Code was issued which prohibited same-sex marriages from then on and also ordered to kill those who were still married.

The Countries were same-sex marriage is now legal are: Argentina (2010), Belgium (2003), Brazil (2013) Canada (2005), Colombia (2016), Denmark (2012), England/Wales (2014), Finland (2015), France(2013), Germany (2017), Greenland (2015), Iceland (2010), Ireland (2015), Luxemburg (2014), Malta (2017), The Netherlands (2001), New Zealand (2013), Norway (2008), Portugal (2010), Scotland (2014), South Africa (2006), Spain (2005), Sweden (2009), United States (2015), Uruguay (2013).