This year, Thailand and Liechtenstein join the list. Use the interactive table below to sort the places allowing same-sex marriages by name, region and the year legal same-sex marriage took effect.

The actress had a love marriage in 1964 with businessman S. M. Ramanathan, but in 1966, after the birth of her son Bhupathi, her spouse abandoned her due to an astrologer’s prediction.

This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are ...

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