Gay marriage in eu

The first references to a possible civil marriage between persons of the equal sex emerged around A German legal scholar—Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, alias Numa Numantius (), often called the “founding father” of the gay movement—suggested this notion following his publication of Statutes for a Uranian Federation (Satzungen für den Urningsbund), which demands equality for them before the statute. However, “uranian marriage” as envisioned by Ulrichs was based on the plan of a third sex, in accordance with the expression anima muliebrisvirilicorpore inclusa (a woman’s liveliness in a man’s body), and vice versa. Yet what we would today call gay marriage actually existed as early as the eighteenth century. In England, the marriage register for Taxal mentions two marriages between women in and In , Miss Mary Hamilton was widely talked about and condemned by law for having “posed as a man and married [a woman] as such.” The French legal scholar Eugène Wilhelm () found traces of such unions throughout the nineteenth century, quite often involving an intersexual person (called hermaphrod