01 Jul Germany Has Voted in Favour of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage

Attitudes towards gay rights, and the LGBTQ+ community at large has improved exponentially in recent years. While it is undeniable that our society still has significant strides to make on the march towards true equality and tolerance, the distance we have travelled is worth acknowledging.

In fact, the landscape of our modern culture is all but unrecognisable from the less tolerant reality that many grew up in mere decades ago. Countries – and their governments – have become increasingly progressive in their attitudes towards homosexuality, less encumbered by arcane values that hold no value, and have no place, in today’s society.

With that being said, there is clearly some way to go on our inexorable march. While attitudes have rightly shifted, institutional change has been a slower process; it was a mere three years ago that gay marriage became legal in England and Wales, while many other countries are still yet to follow suit and update an archaic law that no longer reflects our culture.

Germany had been one such country; as the Telegraph reports, Angela Merkel has historically opposed to gay marriage, citing “concerns for children”, though the country, led by her part, has made an abrupt about turn in recent days.

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