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
The Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage 20 years ago.
At midnight on 1 April, 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.
Since that momentous day in 2001, 20,000 same-sex couples in the Netherlands have tired the knot, according to data released by Statistics Netherlands (CBS). CBS said more than 19,000 men and nearly 21,000 women have married a same-sex partner since 1 April ,
More than 1,400 men and 1,100 women were married in the first year that same-sex marriages were legalised in the country, meaning they will be celebrating their 20th wedding anniversaries this year.
Fewer homeless people in the Netherlands after years of increase
AMSTERDAM - As of January 2020, there were 36.000 homeless people in total in the Netherlands, which is the first time in years that the number has decreased. The last research in 2018 recorded 39.000 homeless people. According to the Statistics Netherlands, 8 of 10 homeless people are male and live in one of the four biggest cities in the country.
The research also showed that there are now fewer young homeless people (age group 18-27). In 2020 there were 8.5 thousand people in this age group, as opposed to 10.7 thousand back in 2016, which was the last time this age classification was used.
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