• Source: 2024 in LGBTQ rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBTQ rights taking place in the year 2024.




Events






= January

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1 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in Estonia.
9 – Gabriel Attal is appointed Prime Minister of France, becoming the country’s first openly gay head of government.




= February

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15 – Greece's Parliament passes a bill legalizing same-sex marriages by a vote of 175 to 77.
16 – Greece's same-sex marriage law comes into force.
22 – Westlock, Alberta (Canada) gets a majority vote to ban pride flags.
28 – The Parliament of Ghana passes a widespread anti-LGBT bill making the promotion or advocacy of LGBT rights punishable by five years in prison.
29 – Australia's Cumberland City Council votes to ban drag queen storytime from council events.




= March

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22 – The Government of New South Wales bans conversion therapy, including for citizens out of state.
27 – The House of Representatives of Thailand passes a preliminary bill legalizing same-sex marriages by a vote of 400 to 10.




= April

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12 – Germany's parliament passes law easing legal procedures for changing names and gender identity by a vote of 374 to 251.
17 – Sweden's parliament passes law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16 by a vote of 234 to 94.
19 – Czech Republic, same-sex partnerships get more rights in income taxes, social security and stepchild adoptions. The reform comes into effect on 1 January 2025.
23 – Dominica's High Court issued a ruling decriminalizing homosexual acts.
27 – Iraq's parliament votes to criminalize same-sex relationships, to be punishable by a maximum of 15 years in prison.




= May

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1 – The United Methodist Church (UMC) allows same-sex marriages in their churches and strikes down its 40-year ban on gay clergy.
1 – Australia's Cumberland City Council votes in favour of removing books about same-sex parenting in council libraries.
15 – Australia's Cumberland City Council repeals the ban on books about same-sex parenting in council libraries, passed 14 days earlier.
16 – The Landtag of Liechtenstein repeals the ban on same-sex marriages. The bill comes into effect on January 1, 2025.




= June

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18 – Senate of Thailand approves the same-sex marriage bill by a vote of 130 to 4.
21 – Namibia's High Court issued a ruling decriminalizing homosexual acts.




= July

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12 – The Supreme Court of the Netherlands rules that same-sex marriage is legal in Aruba and Curaçao.




= August

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7 – The Bulgarian National Assembly votes in favor of a legislative amendment banning the teaching of LGBTQ related topics in schools.
28 – India's Ministry of Finance issued an advisory declaring that persons from the LGBTQ community face no restrictions in opening joint bank accounts or nominating their partners as beneficiaries.




= September

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17 – The Georgian Parliament votes in favor of passing laws introduced by Georgian Dream party curtailing LGBT rights.
24 – Thailand's king has signed a marriage equality bill into law, making Thailand the first country in South East Asia to recognize same-sex marriage.




= October

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3 – The Georgian Parliament speaker signs the anti-LGBT rights bill into law.




References

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