Video of Austria's first same-sex marriage leaked online
Immediately after the start of the new year 2019, in the Austrian city of Velden, two women got married, thus, for the first time, taking advantage of the opportunity to register marriages for same-sex couples, which opened on January 1, 2019, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
About it Austrian newspaper Der Standard reports.
“They were engaged for four years and are now married. Daniela Paer and Nicole Kopaunik became the first same-sex couple to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the Constitutional Court to register their marriages. Within 5 minutes of midnight they both said yes. The couple will now bear the surname Kopaunik,” the message says.
Earlier in October 2018, Austria officially registered the country's first same-sex marriage between two residents of the capital. These were the women who, together with four other same-sex couples and with the support of the Lambda committee, which defends LGBT rights, filed a lawsuit in the Austrian Constitutional Court. Based on the results of the consideration of the case, the Constitutional Court allowed the registration of marriages for same-sex couples from January 1, 2019, as well as a registered civil partnership for everyone - homo and heterosexuals. The plaintiffs - five couples - were allowed to get married as early as 2018, which the first couple did in October in Vienna.
The current couple from Velden became the first to register a same-sex marriage in the country, according to the opportunity provided on January 1, 2019.
Austria has become the 16th country in Europe and the 26th country in the world to allow marriage for same-sex couples.
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