Greenland's Parliament approved a marriage equality bill yesterday (unanimously). Same-sex couples can tie the knot beginning October 1, 2015.
From On Top Magazine:
Denmark granted Greenland autonomy in 1979, though it remains a country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Greenland's culture and politics continue to be influenced by Denmark.
In 1996, Greenland (population 57,000) adopted Denmark's registered partnership law, which provides gay and lesbian couples with nearly identical rights provided to married heterosexual couples.
The move to adopt Denmark's marriage law, approved in 2012, was supported by the government of Greenland and approved unanimously with two abstentions during its second reading held Tuesday, two months after its first reading.
From
Freedom To Marry:
"The Greenland Parliament today embraced the freedom to marry and made it local... another part of the world and another step forward," Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson said today on Facebook.
Greenland is the latest to pass marriage legislation internationally. Just last week, the nation of Ireland voted overwhelmingly in favor of marriage for same-sex couples, becoming the first country to do so.
In total, same-sex couples can share in the freedom to marry in 21 countries on five continents: Nineteen countries have approved the freedom to marry for same-sex couples nationwide (Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, Denmark, France, Brazil, Uruguay, New Zealand, Britain, Luxembourg, Finland and Ireland), while two others have regional or court-directed provisions enabling same-sex couples to share in the freedom to marry (Mexico and the United States). In Slovenia, Parliament approved a marriage bill in March 2015 but is not final.
It won't change the world's population living with marriage equality much, but it should make the marriage equality map look better.