I had to go to court to adopt my own children, which is like, why?' she added. 'Until now, I needed to fight for everything. 'It's like the state is finally accepting me,' said Annely Lepamaa, 46, a lesbian.
Same-sex marriage is legal in much of western Europe but not in central European countries which were once under communist rule and members of the Moscow-led Warsaw Pact alliance but now members of NATO and, largely, the EU. TALLINN, June 20 (Reuters) - Estonia's parliament approved on Tuesday a law to legalise same-sex marriage, making it the first central European country to do so.