Fourteen of the EU's member states as well as the UK have made same-sex marriage legal. Several others have some form of same-sex civil unions.
Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia do not provide for registered partnership.All have to allow entry to the non-EU partner of an EU citizen if the partnership was registered abroad, although the level of rights they will get will differ.According to the Commission, 76 per cent of EU citizens agreed in 2019 that lesbian, gay, and bisexual people should have equal rights to heterosexual people, up from 71 per cent in 2015.However, discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation has been increasing over the past eight years.