It's been a historic week for gay marriage rights. Wednday, the natn's pal acceptg same-sex marriage licens, and Thursday Mexi Cy, Mexi another natn's pol, did the same along wh gay adoptn. Host Michel Mart talks wh journalist Franc Contreras — a equent ntributor to Al Jazeera televisn and the BBC — for more.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN MEXI CY
- MEXI CY LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE & SAME-SEX DTATN WEDDGS MEXI CY
- GAY MARRIAGE PUTS MEXI CY AT CENTER OF DEBATE
GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN MEXI CY
Hundreds of same-sex upl and transgenr people Mexi Cy celebrated weddgs and the pletn of admistrative procs to change their genr on Friday, a mass ceremony a day before the cy's annual gay pri march. * mexico city gay marriage *
Vargas and her now-hband joed 140 other LGBTQ upl to tie the knot a llective weddg anized by Rabow Caravan, a Mexi Cy ernment mpaign aimed at elimatg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer the same day, Vargas — along wh 30 others — legally changed the genr marker on her ernment-issued ID to reprent her genr inty, not her sex assigned at time, Vargas' father texted her a ngratulatory msage and a blsg on her weddg day for her and her new hband, Hector Aaron Roman. ”Sce gay marriage was legalized Mexi Cy 2010, approximately 13, 000 same-sex upl have married there, and sce the cy ma legal for transgenr people to officially change their genr 2015, about 5, 000 people have done so, acrdg to ernment data. Currently, one-third of Mexin stat now perm a change of genr inty and two-thirds perm gay northern Mexin state of Zates perms neher, and support of transgenr people's rights this regn, Fernanda Delgada formed the anizatn Transformando Vidas (Transformg Liv).
Same-sex upl ma history Mexi Cy this month by marryg unr the first law Lat Ameri that explicly approv gay marriage. We do not want special rights or any special law to protect or regnise our relatnship, ” Gloria Careaga, the -secretary general of the Mexi branch of the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual Associatn (ILGA), said. And that gay marriage is part of those human rights, ” Sl Esbar, the PRD’s secretary for ternatnal relatns, said.
“Maybe there are gog to be very few [homosexual upl] who are gog to adopt.
MEXI CY LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
A proposal last month to legalise gay marriage Mexi ed wispread protts, fendg “Catholic valu” and the “tradnal fay.” Deeper analysis reveals flaws those arguments. * mexico city gay marriage *
” Allowg homosexual upl to adopt would create a fay mol that “children would not wish to have”, as well as beg socially problematic for them, he said, addg that even if homosexuals have the legal basis for rights, practice homophobic groups uld still rtrict polls state that more than 70 per cent of Mexi Cy rints support homosexual marriage, while only about 40 per cent back adoptn by gay upl. ”However, gay rights activists say that the earlier legislatn only regnized relatnships between two homosexuals, not allowg them to adopt children, secure loans, benef om partners’ surance polici and her whout payg movement to allow homosexuals to marry me out of the necsy for legal secury and regnn borne om the rise of Aids the 1980s and homosexuals wh children leavg their heterosexual Careaga argu, the ialized visn of a nuclear fay is no longer universal Mexi, wh about a third of fai beg signated non-tradnal, for stance havg sgle parents or a same-sex uple. “There are many voic now that I really didn’t thk would speak up fence of this posn, ” Careaga said, addg:“The opportuny that this law brgs to [homosexual] people om all over the untry is that they n e to Mexi Cy and get married here and go back to their own state and try to look for the regnn of this marriage.
”For now same-sex upl Mexi Cy are makg the most of their new-found rights, ntug the trail blazed through Lat Ameri, first by Argenta, which had s first homosexual weddg last December, and then Uguay, which approved gay adoptn last September. MEXICO CITY, June 23 (Rters) - Hundreds of same-sex upl and transgenr people Mexi Cy celebrated weddgs and the pletn of admistrative procs to change their genr on Friday, a mass ceremony a day before the cy's annual gay pri 120 upl met the requirements to get married unr the slogan "Hand hand, we march wh pri, " the cy ernment said a statement.
In September, some 100 ci all 32 Mexin stat hosted a so-lled “March for the Fay” – protts agast a proposal to legalise gay marriage. The large anti-gay marriage protts me as somethg of a surprise.
GAY MARRIAGE & SAME-SEX DTATN WEDDGS MEXI CY
LGBT Rights Mexi: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * mexico city gay marriage *
Gay marriage is already legal Mexi Cy and several stat. Still, when Print Enrique Peña Nieto announced a proposed nstutnal reform to regnise same-sex marriage on World Day Agast Homophobia (May 17), negative reactn swiftly followed. This is keepg wh the learship of Pope Francis I, who 2013 famoly clared, “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge?
Even prr to that, when the pope was Archbishop of Buenos Air, he monstrated support for gay rights, sayg:.
I am favour of homosexual rights and, any se, I also support civil unns for homosexuals, but I thk that Argenta is not ready for a gay marriage law. But opposg gay marriage, Mexin Catholics are followg Mexin church dogma while ignorg Rome’s softeng on the issue. Recently, Print Peña Nieto met wh 27 evangelil pastors who oppose the proposed gay marriage legislatn.
GAY MARRIAGE PUTS MEXI CY AT CENTER OF DEBATE
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An unr-analysed element Mexi’s gay marriage bate, which clus adoptn rights, is rpect for the rights of children. The bate on gay marriage Mexi clus gay adoptn.
Gay upl are jt like other upl.