The Finnish Civic Initiative for a change in the marriage legislation will be submitted to Parliament on December 13, 2013. The choice of the date is a good PR gesture but parliamentary acceptance of the reform is far from certain.
More than hundred thousand citizens had signed the Civic Iniative about a new Marriage Law within the first day of availability. The legal requirement of 50 000 backers was reached in the afternoon of March 19th, 2013.
Jo muutaman päivän ajan netissä on ollut esittelyt uusista Mr. Gay Finland -ehdokkaista.
The Finnish parliament approved a law on 28. september 2001 allowing gays to register as couples and obtain some but not all the rights of married couples. The law became effective in the beginning of March 2002.