Same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands Same-sex marriage in the Faroe Islands Same-sex marriage has been legal in the Faroe Islands, an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, since 1 July 2017. Legislation allowing civil same-sex marriage and adoption was approved by the Løgting on 29 April 2016. The Danish Parliament approved the necessary legislative adaptations on 25 April, and the law received royal assent on 3 May 2017 and went into effect on 1 July 2017. Denmark's registered partnership law was never adopted in the Faroe Islands. Same-sex marriage legislation first appeared in the Løgting after the Tórshavn gay pride parade in 2012. A
Whaling in the Faroe Islands Sea Shepherd UK's covert crew on Operation Bloody Fjords 2018 in the Faroe Islands. Whaling in the Faroe Islands "For industrial whaling in the Faroes, see: History of whaling" Whaling in the Faroe Islands takes the form of beaching and slaughtering long-finned pilot whales, a type of dolphin drive hunting. It has been practiced since about the time of the first Norse settlements on these North Atlantic islands, and thus can be considered aboriginal whaling. It is mentioned in the Sheep Letter, a Faroese law from 1298, a supplement to the Norwegian Gulating law. It is regulated by the Faroese