Belgium’s first full same-sex marriages will take place at the City Hall in Ghent June 16 at 8:30 a.m., activists said.
Belgium becomes the second nation, following The Netherlands, in which same-sex couples can marry under the exact same laws as straight people. Numerous other nations let gays tie the knot under separate registered-partnership or civil-union laws that grant up to 99 percent of the rights and obligation of marriage.
Belgian gay activists were having trouble finding couples who wanted to go first and get married amid a media frenzy but now someone has stepped forward.