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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MEXI CY ALLOWS GAY MARRIAGE WH LANDMARK LAW
Mexi Cy beme the first pal Catholic, often macho Lat Ameri to allow same-sex marriage on Monday when cy legislators passed a law givg gay upl full marriage rights. * is gay marriage legal in mexico city *
MEXICO CITY (Rters) - Mexi Cy beme the first pal Catholic, often macho Lat Ameri to allow same-sex marriage on Monday when cy legislators passed a law givg gay upl full marriage legislatn go further than a 2006 cy law allowg civil unns by givg gay upl accs to the same fay social secury benefs and jot loans as straight a last-mute measure, the cy’s left-domated assembly overme nservative opposn to allow gay upl that marry to adopt children. Some gay men and women hugged, exchanged kiss and waved rabow-lored flags that have e to symbolize gay rights. Homosexualy, stifled much of the untry, has e out of the closet Mexi Cy where a gay and lbian district is packed wh gay bars and same-sex upl holdg hands, although some say discrimatn is still rampant.
Mexi’s Catholic archdce has said that legalizg gay marriage is immoral and will stroy fai. “Regnizg homosexual civil unns as marriage go agast the public good and the emotnal velopment of our children, ” said Gvanni Gutierrez, a cy lawmaker om Print Felipe Calron’s Natnal Actn Party, or Cy is jog a handful of ci the Uned Stat and Europe by allowg gays and lbians to marry and is takg the lead Lat Ameri, where some plac have passed laws to legalize same-sex civil unns but have fallen short of permtg full marriage between gays. Argenta beme the first Lat Amerin untry to allow civil unns across the untry by same-sex upl a ph for full gay marriage h a snag earlier this year when a urt blocked a lol judge Buenos Air who issued a marriage license to two men, fyg a natnal ban.