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 exile.
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PE GAY MARRIAGE BILL 'DOOMED' THIS YEAR: NGRSMAN
Pevian lawmaker Alberto Beln, one of only two openly gay members of the untry's Congrs, has ltle hope that he will be able to marry his longtime partner any time soon. * peru gay marriage *
BOGOTA (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Pevian lawmaker Alberto Beln, one of only two openly gay members of the untry’s Congrs, has ltle hope that he will be able to marry his longtime partner any time soon. “We have no legal regnn, ” he told the Thomson Rters the past three years, ngrsman Beln has been phg for new legislatn that would allow same-sex upl to wed the nservative would brg Pe le wh other natns South Ameri, cludg Argenta, Uguay, Brazil and Colombia, which have legalized gay marriage recent wh a nservative majory Pe’s Congrs, the chanc of gay upl gettg married or people beg allowed to legally change their genr inty anytime soon is remote. ”No date has yet been set for the bill to legalize gay marriage, which was prented 2016, to be bated, he wh Venezuela and Paraguay, Pe is one of only three untri South Ameri that has not legalized gay marriage, acrdg to Beln.
POWERFUL EVANGELICALSThe growg rise and fluence of the evangelil Christian movement and church society and polics is a big obstacle gettg laws that promote LGBT+ rights passed, he evangelil groups are cril of gay rights, sayg marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
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Changg negative views among Pevian society about gay marriage is also a big challenge the majory-Catholic different polls 2017 showed that at least seven 10 Pevians were agast same-sex unns. Unrstand the importance of havg a society whout discrimatn, ” Beln 60% of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT+) people had suffered some type of discrimatn or vlence, acrdg to a 2018 survey by Pe’s Natnal Instute of recent urt lgs favor of same-sex unns uld help pave the way for gay rights and ph lawmakers to bate the 2016 bill to legalize gay marriage, he a landmark April lg, a lol urt Pe said thori mt regnize the marriage of a Pevian lbian uple who were wedd Miami, and that failg to do so would be discrimatory and top rights body of the Ameris based Costa Ri, the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights, has also weighed on the issue, urgg untri to legalize gay a judgment issued last year, the urt said s signatory member untri, which clu Pe, should treat same-sex upl “whout discrimatn, ” ensurg that they receive the same fay and fancial rights as heterosexual an openly gay ngrsman, Beln says he has received “a lot of hate msag” on social media, and also part of the discrimatn he fac is that people wrongly assume he is only workg to promote LGBT+ rights. “And ’s really funny bee I have 25 bills prented and only two of them are to do wh LGBT issu - gay marriage and genr inty.