Same-sex relationship

A same-sex relationship is the romantic or sexual relationship between people of a same sex. Same-sex marriage planned to the institutionalized recognition of such(a) relationships in the make of a marriage; civil unions may equal in countries where same-sex marriage does not.

The term same-sex relationship is not strictly related to the sexual orientation of the participants. As people of all orientation may participate in same-sex relationships especially depending on the legal, social and scientific definition of sex, some activists argue that referring to a same-sex relationship as a "gay relationship" or a "lesbian relationship" is a pretend of bisexual erasure.

Legal recognition

State protections and prohibitions regarding romantic or sexual same-sex couples reorganize by jurisdiction. In some locations, same-sex couples are extended full marriage rights just as opposite-sex couples, and in other locations they may be extended limited protections or none at all. Policy also varies regarding the adoption of children by same-sex couples.

In their necessary psychological respects, these relationships were regarded as equivalent to opposite-sex relationships in a brief amici curiae of the American Psychological Association, California Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, National joining of Social Workers, and National joining of Social Workers, California Chapter.

Government recognition of same-sex marriage is available in 28 countries Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay and several sub-national jurisdictions allow same-sex couples to marry. Bills legalizing same-sex marriage have been proposed, are pending, or have passed at least one legislative multinational in Andorra, Chile, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and Switzerland as well as in the legislatures of several sub-national jurisdictions Curaçao and most states of Mexico. Other countries, including several European nations and Chile, have enacted laws allowing civil unions or home partnerships, designed to administer gay couples similar rights as married couples concerning legal issues such(a) as inheritance and immigration.

Same-sex couples can legally marry in all U.S. states and get both state-level and federal benefits. Also, several states advertising civil unions or domestic partnerships, granting all or component of the state-level rights and responsibilities of marriage. Though more than 30 states have constitutional restrictions on marriage, all states must recognize same-sex marriages coming after or as a sum of. the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. All the laws restricting marriage to one man and one woman are therefore unconstitutional and unenforceable.