The Republic of Tunisia may have just become the first Arabic country to recognise marriage equality.
That’s the claim of Mounir Baatour, President of the local LGBTQ+ rights group Sham, regarding a marriage between two men officially recognised by a local municipality in Tunisia, Out.com reports.
«While homosexuality is still punished with prison in Tunisia, and several gay people are currently in Tunisian prisons, a gay marriage has just been included in the birth certificate of a Tunisian», Baatour wrote on Sham’s Facebook page»
According to Baatour Out.com writes, a Tunisian man who relocated to France and gotten married, returned to the small municipality he was born in to start the official migration process. As a part of the paperwork, officials in the Tunisian municipality entered his partner’s name on his birth certificate, thereby making state recognition of the marriage official.