Intimacy in Times of (De)normalisation: Same-Sex Relational Recognition in Portugal

Abstract

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.