Preliminary figures show that in 2021, 7,8 out of every 1.000 married couples filed for a divorce - the Netherlands’ lowest annual divorce rate since 1980.
April 1, 2021: The Netherlands celebrates 20 years of gay marriage
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April 1 marks 20 years to the day since the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage. Since that momentous day, 20.000 gay and lesbian couples have gotten married.
World’s first same-sex wedding in the Netherlands
At midnight on April 1, 2001, then-mayor Job Cohen married three gay couples and one lesbian couple in a joint ceremony at the City Hall in Amsterdam. Up until that point, same-sex couples could only enter into a registered partnership.
Of the 20.000 married same-sex couples in the Netherlands today, approximately 2.500 of them were married in 2001. Anne-Marie Thus and Helène Faasen were the first lesbian couple to be married, and are celebrating their 20th anniversary on Thursday. “We love eachother,” says Thus, who now lives together with her wife i