This Gay Marriage Was Recognised in Tunisia

The Republic of Tunisia may have just become the first Arabic country to recognise marriage equality.

That’s the claim of Mounir Baatour, President of the local LGBTQ+ rights group Sham, regarding a marriage between two men officially recognised by a local municipality in Tunisia, Out.com reports.

«While homosexuality is still punished with prison in Tunisia, and several gay people are currently in Tunisian prisons, a gay marriage has just been included in the birth certificate of a Tunisian», Baatour wrote on Sham’s Facebook page»

According to Baatour Out.com writes, a Tunisian man who relocated to France and gotten married, returned to the small municipality he was born in to start the official migration process. As a part of the paperwork, officials in the Tunisian municipality entered his partner’s name on his birth certificate, thereby making state recognition of the marriage official.