Gay Marriage A Human Rights Issue In Argenta : NPR

Contents:

• Q&A: ARGENTA GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• SIX REASONS WHY ARGENTA LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE FIRST
• A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
• GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ARGENTA
• ARGENTA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE, A FIRST FOR REGN
• GAY MARRIAGE A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE IN ARGENTA
• ARGENTA GAY RIGHTS AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE
• ARGENTA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE
• ARGENTA PASS GAY MARRIAGE LAW
• THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI
• THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI

Q&A: ARGENTA GAY MARRIAGE LAW

Readg Time: 6 mutJavier Corral also wrote for AQ Onle March on Lat Amerin Gays: The Post-Left Leftists, examg the novative and succsful polil strategi— actn and thkg—adopted by LGBT groups Lat Ameri the last . This month, Argenta changed s civil to perm gay marriage and adoptns, beg the first natn Lat Ameri and the send natn the lower three-quarters of the pla to do so.

SIX REASONS WHY ARGENTA LEGALIZED GAY MARRIAGE FIRST

And has a super gay-iendly ma cy, but this is also te of at least Brazil, Mexi, the Uned Stat, Colombia, Uguay, Pe, and Costa Ri. Furthermore, a strategy was veloped by different LGBT anizatns, particularly the Feración Argenta Lbianas, Gay, Bisexual y Trans (Argenta Feratn of Lbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Trans) to enurage gay upl to requt marriage licens, orr to get an official refal and then challenge the official cisn on nstutnal grounds.

Enemi of Argenta’s gay marriage legislatn, cludg the Catholic Church, offered a populist promise—subm the issue to a popular vote. Argenta th replited the path taken by Massachetts, where gay marriage was approved first through a urt lg and then by legislative vote agast the wish of the anti-gay ernor Mt Romney, who wanted a referendum, and avoid the California and Florida mols, which relied on popular vote to disastro rults even though societal tolerance for LGBT folks those stat is prumably high. Ultimately, gay marriage is a piece of legislatn that is transformg the way we have thought of mocracy for the last three centuri, and would be disgenuo to believe that this effort n occur whout urage.

(Rters) - Cubans overwhelmgly approved gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed referendum on Sunday, a landmark vote half a century after a wave of state persecutn sent many homosexual people to forced labor mps and to is a timele on same-sex marriage across Lat Ameri and the Caribbean:Pre-2010 - Only a handful of untri worldwi regnize same-sex marriage, mostly Europe. 2011 - Brazil's Supreme Court l that gay upl stable relatnships should have the same rights as heterosexual upl terms of retirement benefs, herance and alimony.

A REVIEW OF THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI

Polil Cartoons on World Lears 2013 - France legaliz gay marriage, changg the law s overseas Caribbean terrori of Gualoupe, Martique and French Guea. 2022 - Cubans overwhelmgly approve gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed September marriage remas illegal or not regnized across most of Central Ameri, Paraguay, Bolivia, Pe, Venezuela, Surame, Guyana and swath of the Caribbean, acrdg to global LGBT rights tracker Equalx.

Colonial-era "buggery" laws banng gay sex were overturned parts of the Caribbean but still exist some untri cludg Jamai and Barbados. The Polics of Gay Marriage Lat Ameri: Argenta, Chile, and Mexi By Jordi Díez New York: Cambridge Universy Prs, 2015, 302 pag.

Consequently, is not easy for scholars, and much ls for the sual observer, to make sense of the patchwork of gay marriage laws emergg om Lat Ameri recent years.

GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL ARGENTA

In this first book by a sgle thor on the polics of gay marriage Lat Ameri, Jordi Díez, a 2014 DRCLAS Peggy Rockefeller Visg Scholar, offers his take on why gay marriage has met divergent receptns across the regn. In Mexi, some stat and the Feral District of Mexi Cy have moved forward wh gay marriage laws, wh the blsgs om the urts, while other stat have moved the oppose directn by banng gay marriage.

Díez’s theoretil approach for explag the divergence of gay marriage laws Lat Ameri draws heavily on two semal schools of thought om the social movement lerature.

ARGENTA APPROV GAY MARRIAGE, A FIRST FOR REGN

In keepg wh the theoretil anchorg pots, Díez argu that the key factors acuntg for gay marriage divergence Lat Ameri are: (1) the strength of the work of ti lkg activists to other groups society; (2) the accs to the policy-makg arena afford by particular natnal polil stutns; and (3) the ronance of the claims ed by gay activists to mand the expansn of marriage rights to same-sex upl.

The analysis of Argenta pellgly shows how the ntacts that gay activists ma wh members of the polil class, the burecracy, the media and the human rights muny were pivotal to the succs of the stggle for gay marriage Argenta 2010. Argente gay activists were also very skilled amg their mands for marriage ls as a right for a particular mory than as a benef for advancg cizenship and mocracy Argenta. In addn, gay activists Argenta benefed om several key featur of Argente polics, such as a discreded Catholic Church and the absence of “nfsnal” parti.

For one thg, the claim that “gay rights are human rights” had ls emotnal pull Mexi and Chile than Argenta, bee of the latter’s uniquely trmatic experience wh human rights ab unr ary le.

GAY MARRIAGE A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE IN ARGENTA

Dpe offerg an excellent roadmap of the emergence of gay marriage laws Lat Ameri, a great al remas hidn Díez’s analysis, and maly bee the analysis hews so close to the social movement lerature. By and large, Díez neglects to nsir the unrlyg social and polil foundatns that have anchored the rise of gay rights Lat Ameri—not jt gay marriage, but also laws tend to eradite anti-gay discrimatn and to advance transgenr equaly. Alongsi the rise of a surprisgly effective gay rights movement, the foundatns clu social and enomic mornizatn, the growg secularizatn of the public, the reformatn of the Lat Amerin nstutns and the judiciary, and the embrace of social liberalism by the Lat Amerin Left.

The happengs do make an appearance the book, pecially early the analysis, but they are not engaged a manner that allows the rear to ga a eper unrstandg of why some untri have been more succsful than others legislatg gay marriage. Another cricism of the book is the light treatment of the issue of external fluence, pecially the diffn of homosexual inti and polics flowg om the veloped Wt to the velopg South.

Yet this fluence is sential for unrstandg not only why gay rights have epted across Lat Ameri the first place, but also why a untry like Argenta would leap over all others emergg as the regn’s gay rights lear. While the book rightly regniz the Argente gay rights movement as the olst Lat Ameri, not much is said about beg the most externally oriented the regn. Even ls is said about how Argente activists have nsistently tapped on ternatnal gay rights trends to fashn their own activism.

ARGENTA GAY RIGHTS AND SAME SEX MARRIAGE

This was not happenstance, but rather the liberate oute of the actns of a small clter of activists (led by the wrers Manuel Puig and Néstor Perlongher) who enavored to brg to Argenta the energy and tellectual ntent of the rts, as embodied New York’s Gay Liberatn Front.

Ined, Argenta’s Frente Homosexual Liberación was the only tly viable gay liberatn movement formed outsi of the veloped Wt.

ARGENTA LEGALIS GAY MARRIAGE

The importance of this velopment is that Argenta, unlike the rt of Lat Ameri, veloped an early nscns about gay rights activism. Ined, this nscns allowed gay activists a historil rootg that has no peers Lat Ameri and probably nowhere else the velopg world.

Another important external velopment of importance to the rise of gay marriage Argenta was the return of a large number of gay exil om Europe (France and Spa particular) after the mocratic transn 1983. They were pivotal transportg om Europe to Argenta many of the strategi and tactics that guid the activism of the Comunidad Homosexual Argenta (CHA), the most important gay rights group the untry sce the mocratic transn.

ARGENTA PASS GAY MARRIAGE LAW

While Europe, Argente gay activists such as Carlos Jáuregui (the CHAs’ first print) were exposed to the tellectual trends that forhadowed the advent of the marriage equaly movement Wtern Europe and the Uned Stat, such as the legimizg of gay rights as human rights and the need to rporate homosexualy to the mastream of society. Fally, is almost impossible to unrstand the succs of the Argente gay marriage mpaign whout acuntg for the direct fluence of Spa, the first overwhelmgly Catholic natn to legalize gay marriage, 2005.

THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI: ARGENTA, CHILE, AND MEXI

At the requt of lol activists, Spanish gay activists traveled to Buenos Air to tra gay activists on how to craft their mpaign for marriage equaly and to ttify to the Argente Congrs on the need to legislate gay marriage. All of this said, the most disappotg thg about the book is how the overarchg emphasis on polil workg as a means for attag gay civil rights, pecially marriage, untentnally strips gay rights polics Lat Ameri of much s livels, and, ankly, s grts.

Overlooked by the analysis of the Argente se are some of the most nontatnal aspects of the gay rights mpaign, such as the shamg to which Print Carlos Menem was subjected 1991-92 for his refal to legalize gay rights anizatns (he eventually relented); the stormg of the Buenos Cy Hall by activists 1996 as cy uncilors were batg addg an anti-gay discrimatn clse to the cy’s nstutn; and the liberal e of crach(screechg), a prsure strategy borrowed om the human rights movement, to force approval of Buenos Air’ same-sex civil unns ordance (that 2002 ordance forhadowed the g of same-sex marriage 2010).

Rather, my crique reveals how big the story of the advent of gay marriage Lat Ameri actually is, as well as the need to brg a richer set of analytil lens and perspectiv than those provid by the social movement lerature to tease out the plexy of the Lat Amerin gay rights experience. The new law grants gays and lbians all the same legal rights, rponsibili and protectns of marriage as heterosexual upl.

THE POLICS OF GAY MARRIAGE LAT AMERI

While the gay rights movement has led to civil unns Uguay, Buenos Air and dividual stat Mexi and Brazil, the Argenta law will go further, allowg the full rights of marriage to gays and lbians natnwi. Sce the first same-sex marriag took place the Netherlands 2001, more than 30 other jurisdictns have enacted laws allowg gays and lbians to marry, mostly Europe and the Ameris.