The Indian Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments for and against allowing same-sex marriage in the country. A decision allowing gay and queer couples to marry would be a major landmark for the conservative nation and would make India only the second place in Asia after Taiwan to pivot on marriage equality.
The Indian government has meanwhile spoken out against allowing same-sex marriage, according to reporting by the National Herald. However, the Supreme Court's chief justice D.Y. Chandrachud has already indicated that he doesn't share the government's view of same-sex marriage being elitist and only relevant to urban Indians. Gay sex was only legalized in India in 2018 and LGBT people in the country continue to report attacks and a lack of acceptance from their families and society as a whole.
Andorra was the most recent country to have legalized same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage has advanced in countries and regions where acceptance of homosexuality is high and globally, two-thirds of countries that allow it are in Western Europe. More recently, countries in Latin America have also seen advances, with Cuba legalizing same sex marriage in 2ß22, Chile in 2021, Costa Rica in 2020 ad Ecuador in 2019. It has been legal in Colombia since 2016, in Brazil since 2013 and Argentina since 2010. Taiwan and South Africa for now remain the only places on their respective continents where same-sex or queer couples can get married. Still, several European governments do not allow same-sex unions, notably Italy and Greece. No counties do so in Central and Eastern Europe to date.