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Belgium Pioneer: This Right, Granted to Us for Years, Is Not in Much of the World (and Europe)

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Adobe Stock On 30 January 2003, almost 22 years ago, Belgium became the second country in the world - after the Netherlands - to legalize same-sex marriage. Since 1 January 2000, there had been a legal cohabitation status, which allowed homosexual couples to live under the same roof, but associations defending LGBT+ rights called for a real marriage.This was possible when Guy Verhofstadt took over the leadership of a so-called rainbow government…
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Adobe Stock On 30 January 2003, almost 22 years ago, Belgium became the second country in the world - after the Netherlands - to legalize same-sex marriage. Since 1 January 2000, there had been a legal cohabitation status, which allowed homosexual couples to live under the same roof, but associations defending LGBT+ rights called for a real marriage.This was possible when Guy Verhofstadt took over the leadership of a so-called rainbow government…

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RTL Info broke the news in on Wednesday, December 31, 2025.
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