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In 2010 Portugal became the eighth country worldwide to approve same-sex civil marriage. In the last decade, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activism has played a crucial role in influencing and accelerating social, political and legal change, placing this southern European, majority Catholic and post-dictatorship country at the forefront of same-sex recognition in Europe.
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Santos, A.C. (2013). Intimacy in Times of (De)normalisation: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal. In: Sanger, T., Taylor, Y. (eds) Mapping Intimacies. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313423_12
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