Since 2001, when the Netherlands became the first country to legalise marriage for same-sex couples, more and more countries have slowly followed suit.
Since 2001, 26 countries have changed their laws to give same-sex couples the right to marry. But with 195 countries in the world, there is a still a long way to go before all lesbians, where-ever they live in the world, achieve full marriage equality.
Let's take a look at the countries who have changed their laws.
Netherlands - 2001
Parliament passed legislation allowing same-sex couples the right to marry, divorce and adopt children. They did this by just altering one sentence in their civil marriage statute to, "A marriage can be can be contracted by two people of different or the same sex".
