Presidential Reconstruction. At the end of May 1865, President Andrew Johnson announced his plans for Reconstruction, which reflected both his staunch Unionism and his firm belief in statesâ rights.
In 2013, the Spartacus Gay Travel Index features a majority of Western European countries in the top 11 (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain), plus Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay.
Portugal, Iceland and Argentina. In the following year (2010) three more countries legalized gay marriage: Portugal, Iceland and Argentina. Argentina became the first Latin American country in the world to legalize gay marriage.8. Ireland was the first country in the world to approve same-sex marriage by a referendum. Voters were asked whether to add to the Constitution that âmarriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex.â The referendum took place on May 22nd 2015.