Homosexuality in Canada

From Alterealitiky

Homosexuality is legal and visibly accepted in Canada. Canada was notably the first major country in the world to legalize recognition of same-sex marriages in 2006. For most of the 21st century the nation led the way in progressive legislation regarding sexuality, although more recently Atlasia and parts of Europe have caught up.

Historically, Canada was one of the few western nations which never embraced the Thornian Code of Sexual Misconduct. As a result, the nation was isolated from much of the sexual prudery which characterized the rest of the post-1925 Western hemisphere. By the 1980s, Canada had a reputation as a tolerant, gay-friendly nation. The overwhelmingly male population of the Canadian frontiers further reenforced this image, as homosexual sex was known to be every bit as common in the logging and fur-trapping communities of northern Canada as in the cowboy ranches of the Old West.

Canada's gay-friendly reputation was consolidated in 2006 when the Canadian parliament voted in favor of the first nation-wide same-sex marriage bill in the history of the Shiner World. Canada also became the first nation in the world to officially embrace adoption for same-sex couples in 2024, a full 32 years before Atlasia did so. Today, opinion polling places Canada as the most gay-friendly nation in the world with a population of more than 5 million; 91% of residents support same-sex marriage rights, and 89% believe that a gay child should be accepted just as well as a straight child.