Marriage Equality has recently had another win in that the USA has legalized marriages between people of the same gender. Marriage Equality is important because it is one of the first steps to help equalize the lives of LGBTQA+ people.

There aren't many countries that have legalized marriage equality but here is a list of those who have:

- The Netherlands: April 1, 2001

- Belgium: June 1, 2003

- Spain: July 3, 2005

- Canada: July 20, 2005

- South Africa: November 30, 2006

- Norway: January 1, 2009

- Sweden: May 1, 2009 

- Portugal: June 5, 2010

- Iceland: June 27, 2010

- Argentina: July 22, 2010

- Denmark: June 15,2012

- Brazil: May 14, 2013

- France: May 29, 2013

- Uruguay: August 5, 2013

- New Zealand: August 19, 2013

- United Kingdom (England, Wales,) March 29, 2014 (Scotland, December 31, 2014)

- Luxembourg: June 18, 2014

- Finland: November 28, 2014

- Ireland: May 23, 2015

- The United States: June 26, 2015

So tell me, is your country's name on the list?