The anti-gay marriage movement, Manif Pour Tous or Protest For All , mounted a fierce campaign against the measure, at one point claiming to have drawn 1. A little more than a month after the law passed , Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau became the first same-sex couple to wed in France in a highly publicised ceremony in the southern city of Montpellier. More than 40, same-sex couples have since married in France , according to the national statistics office Insee. Five years on, people across the country have taken to social media to celebrate the landmark decision by sharing their own wedding photos.

A growing number of governments around the world are considering whether to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriages. So far, 30 countries and territories have enacted national laws allowing gays and lesbians to marry, mostly in Europe and the Americas. In Mexico, some jurisdictions allow same-sex couples to wed, while others do not. Below is a list of countries that have legalized the practice, with the most recent countries to do so shown first.

However, a lesser-known indecent exposure law that often targeted LGBT people was introduced in before being repealed twenty years later. After granting same-sex couples domestic partnership benefits known as the civil solidarity pact , France became the thirteenth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage in Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity were enacted in and , respectively. In , France became the first country in the world to declassify transgenderism as a mental illness.