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Samdup Lepcha

Samdup Lepcha is an Indian politician of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha who holds the Social Welfare, Women and Child Development, and Printing and Stationery portfolios in the Government of Sikkim.

Samdzimari Corona

Samdzimari Corona is a 260-km-wide corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 11.0S 339.5E, named in 2000 for a Georgian abundance deity.

Same Difference (Swae Lee album)

Same Difference is the debut solo studio album by American rapper and singer Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd, released by Eardruma and Interscope on April 3, 2026.

Same Kind of Different as Me (film)

Same Kind of Different as Me is a 2017 American faith-based drama directed by Michael Carney, starring Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou, and Jon Voight, adapted from the Ron Hall and Denver Moore memoir about friendship at a Fort Worth homeless shelter.

Same Love

"Same Love" (2012), a Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song featuring Mary Lambert from The Heist, released via Sub Pop for Washington's Referendum 74 campaign; Hot 100 No. 11, 2014 Grammy mass-wedding performance, marriage-equality anthem.

Same Love, Same Rain

Same Love, Same Rain (El mismo amor, la misma lluvia) is a 1999 Argentine romantic comedy-drama by Juan José Campanella, starring Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil as a couple whose on-and-off romance spans two decades of Argentine history; it won eight Silver Condor awards in 2000.

Same Old Love

Same Old Love: 2015 Selena Gomez pop single, second release from Revival, written by Charli XCX, Stargate, Benny Blanco, and Ross Golan; peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Same Old Song

Same Old Song (On connaît la chanson), Alain Resnais' 1997 French musical comedy written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, in which Parisian characters lip-synch 36 pre-recorded French pop songs; Dennis Potter homage, biggest French hit of Resnais' career, seven Césars.

Same Same but Different (2026 film)

Same Same But Different is a 2026 American comedy, Lauren Noll's directorial debut written by Dalia Rooni, about an Iranian immigrant's green card wedding on Cape Cod; it premiered at SXSW on March 12, 2026, starring Medalion Rahimi and Logan Miller.

Same Spirits, New Forms

"Same Spirits, New Forms" is the season 3 premiere of The White Lotus, written and directed by Mike White, aired on HBO February 16, 2025, set in Thailand, opening with gunshots before rewinding a week to introduce new guests.

Same Time, Next Year (film)

Same Time, Next Year (1978) is Robert Mulligan's romantic comedy, adapted by Bernard Slade from his Broadway play, starring Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda as annual trysting spouses; four Oscar nominations, 1,453-performance stage run.

Same-different task

The same-different task is a perceptual judgment experiment in which a participant decides whether two stimuli are the same or different, used in psychology since the 1960s.

Same-origin policy

The same-origin policy, also called the same origin principle, is a browser security mechanism restricting how documents and scripts from one origin interact with resources from another, with origins defined by scheme, host, and port.

Same-sex adoption in the United States

Same-sex adoption in the United States, also called LGBT or gay adoption, is legal nationwide for married couples after Obergefell (2015) and the 2017 Supreme Court ruling, though religious-exemption laws and second-parent adoption restrictions persist in some states.

Same-sex and LGBTQ+ adoption in Canada

Same-sex and LGBTQ+ adoption in Canada is the legal ability of LGBTQ+ individuals and couples to adopt children, permitted in every jurisdiction since roughly 2011, though agency-level barriers persist.

Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also called marriage equality or gay marriage, is legally recognized marriage between same-sex couples, first national law in the Netherlands April 1, 2001, now legal in 39 countries and a US constitutional right since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).

Same-sex marriage debate in literature

The same-sex marriage debate in literature is the body of essays, books, and law review articles arguing for and against same-sex marriage, chiefly from 1989 onward.

Same-sex marriage in Bermuda

Same-sex marriage in Bermuda: legal May 2017 to June 2018, then banned by the Domestic Partnership Act 2018, upheld by the Privy Council in 2022; domestic partnerships and pre-2022 marriages remain recognized.

Same-sex marriage in British Columbia

Same-sex marriage in British Columbia: legalized July 8, 2003 by the BC Court of Appeal in Barbeau v. British Columbia after a 2001 BCSC dismissal; second Canadian province after Ontario, later confirmed by the 2005 Civil Marriage Act.

Same-sex marriage in Canada

Same-sex marriage in Canada has been legal nationwide since the Civil Marriage Act (Bill C-38), royal assent July 20, 2005, making Canada the fourth country after the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain; provincial court rulings under the Charter began in Ontario in 2003.

Same-sex marriage in Germany

Same-sex marriage in Germany (Ehe für alle), legal since 1 October 2017, replaced registered life partnerships (2001); passed 393-226 by the Bundestag on 30 June 2017; descent-law reform and adoption remain open issues.

Same-sex marriage in Mexico

Same-sex marriage (matrimonio igualitario) in Mexico: legal in all 32 states since Tamaulipas's October 2022 vote, starting with Mexico City in December 2009, upheld and extended by Supreme Court rulings in 2010, 2012 and 2015.

Same-sex marriage in Scotland

Same-sex marriage in Scotland, legalized by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 with first weddings on 31 December 2014, features an opt-in system for religious and belief bodies, Equality Act protections for objecting celebrants, and over 10,000 same-sex marriages since.

Same-sex marriage in South Africa

Same-sex marriage in South Africa: legalized via the Civil Union Act 17 of 2006 after the Constitutional Court's Fourie judgment (1 December 2005); first in Africa, with section 6 conscientious-objection opt-outs repealed in 2020.

Same-sex marriage in Taiwan

Same-sex marriage in Taiwan, legalized 24 May 2019 under the Act implementing Constitutional Court Interpretation No. 748, made Taiwan the first in Asia; extended to cross-national couples (2023), adoption (2023), and cross-strait couples (2024).

Same-sex marriage in Thailand

Same-sex marriage in Thailand: legalized by the Marriage Equality Act (Civil and Commercial Code Amendment No. 24 B.E. 2567), effective 23 January 2025; first in Southeast Asia, third in Asia after Taiwan and Nepal.

Same-sex marriage in the Cayman Islands

Same-sex marriage is not legal in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory, but the Civil Partnership Law 2020 gives same-sex couples unions with rights equivalent to marriage.

Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom

Same-sex marriage in the UK, also called equal marriage, is legal UK-wide: England and Wales 2014 (Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013), Scotland 2014, Northern Ireland 13 January 2020, following the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Same-sex marriage in the United States

Same-sex marriage in the United States, also called marriage equality, is legal nationwide since Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), after Hawaii's 1993 ruling, state and federal DOMAs, Massachusetts (2003), and Windsor (2013).

Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States

Same-sex marriage in tribal nations in the United States is governed by each tribe's own laws; at least fourteen tribes allow it, since the 2015 Obergefell ruling does not bind tribes.