On 1 October , Axel and Eigil Axgil were the first same-sex couple in the world to pledge each other love and enter into a registered partnership at Copenhagen City Hall. Another historic victory was the amendment of the Marriage Act in , which granted same-sex couples in Denmark the right to get married in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark on equal terms with heterosexual couples. In Denmark, people bicycle in all types of weather and at all times of day. Bicycles are used for pleasure, commuting, transport of goods, and family travel.
In the bigs cities in Denmark, it is often easier to commute by bike than by car. Denmark was the first country in the world to establish the right for same-sex couples to enter into registered partnership back in Poul and Nicolai Cullura, when they got married in Photo: Mark Thyrring.
We want to be accepted as individuals equal to heterosexuals and to get the fantastic experience of getting married in a church and proclaim ourselves a married couple," Poul Cullura recounts. Poul and Nicolai Cullura today.
They are still married today and their marriage is generally met with positivity in Denmark. You have the right to be exactly who you are regardless of who you are with. That is something we really appreciate," Poul Cullura says.
Better rights for rainbow families In recent years, progress has occurred regarding rainbow families in Denmark. For instance, the Danish Parliament passed a law in , which imply that Lesbian couples no longer must prove how their child was conceived. And the female partner of the pregnant woman will automatically become the co-mother and thus legal parent of the child.
