Recognition of same-sex unions in San Marino

On 17 June 2012, the Grand and General Council passed a bill to allow foreign nationals in same-sex relationships with San Marino citizens to remain in the country legally.

The bill did not provide any other rights to these couples, but was hailed as a "historic step forward" by Michele Pazzini, the secretary of a San Marino LGBT association.

[1] In March 2016, three political parties announced their intention to introduce separate bills to Parliament to create a new gender-neutral partnership law that would expand the rights of all unmarried cohabiting couples.

The center-left coalition partner, United Left, said that it was open to the idea of same-sex parenting and may bring the issue of stepchild adoption to a fourth proposal.

[2] In December 2017, after winning the November 2016 election, the center-left coalition (consisting of United Left, Future Republic and Civic 10) vowed to pass a civil union bill.

[20] In April 2014, a Sammarinese man, who had married his partner in the United Kingdom, filed a petition to start a debate on the recognition of foreign same-sex marriages in San Marino.

[26] The Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches, which serves the small Protestant minority in San Marino, was the first Christian denomination to authorise the blessing of same-sex couples in 2010.