Family and Marriage
Sri Lanka law does not recognize same-sex marriages or any similar civil union. There remains significant social pressure within Sri Lanka families to find a suitable partner of the opposite sex, marry and start a family. LGBT people who have come out to their family, often report being verbally or physically harassed.
Read more about this topic: LGBT Rights In Sri Lanka
Famous quotes containing the words family and/or marriage:
“There was books too.... One was “Pilgrim’s Progress,” about a man that left his family it didn’t say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)