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Ecuador's cisn to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBT+ rights after Botswana crimalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do so, said mpaigners markg the 50th anniversary of the gay equaly movement. * is gay marriage legal in ecuador *
"I want to say hello to Javier, who is Guayaquil: 'Honey, I love you', " Mr Soria told reporters the pal, Quo, where the vote was held a closed-door Soria, who is the head of the LGBT rights group Ecuadorean Equaly Foundatn, urged other gay people to stop hidg and "enjoy the happs that om beg equal, like anyone else" Benalcázar told Efe news agency that he felt "emotnal after so much stggle" source, AFPImage ptn, Celebratns were also held Guayaquil, Ecuador's send-largt cyCelebratns epted Quo and Guayaquil, Ecuador's send-largt cy, after the cisn was announced on Wednday. Still, homophobic attus ntue to prevail parts of the untry and the regn. Only a handful of untri South Ameri have legalized same-sex marriage, cludg Argenta, Brazil, Colombia and Uguay, acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn.
By Osr LopezMEXICO CITY, June 13 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) — Ecuador's cisn to allow same-sex marriage has topped a landmark week for LGBTQ+ rights after Botswana crimalized gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do so, said mpaigners markg the 50th anniversary of the gay equaly of ne judg Ecuador's top urt on Wednday led favor of two gay upl who sued after their requt to be married was nied by the untry's civil Lat Amerin natn is the 27th untry to allow same-sex marriage wh the move g durg the annual gay Pri month and events to mark the 50th year of the Stonewall rts New York that gave rise to the global movement for LGBTQ+ rights.
Ecuador's cisn to allow same-sex marriage tops a landmark week for sexual diversy after Botswana crimalised gay sex and Bhutan took the first steps to do so, say mpaigners markg the 50th anniversary of the LGBT rights movement. * is gay marriage legal in ecuador *
A day earlier Botswana's top urt voted to crimalise homosexualy and Bhutan's lower hoe six days ago voted to repeal a siar law that needs upper chamber approval.
"We're wnsg an important moment history as the victori will send out posive shockwav across the world and spire more activists to ntue their fight for LGBT+ rights, " he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn by ChallengDpe the recent ton, however, LGBTQ+ rights advot utned that signifint global challeng May, Kenya's high urt upheld the untry's ban on gay sex, so same-sex relatns rema punishable by 14 years jail, and Bnei announced but then reversed a cisn to impose ath by stong for gay sex after a global backlash.
Campaigns some untri durg parliamentary electns the European Unn May were characterized by anti-gay rhetoric cludg by Poland's Law and Jtice Party and Spa's far-right Vox party challengg acceptance of LGBQT+ the Uned Stat January, the Supreme Court lifted lower urt lgs that blocked a Tmp admistratn ban on certa transgenr people om servg the US ary, allowg the policy to go to effect. "Whenever there's progrs, there's always steps backwards, " said Neela Ghoshal, senr rearcher the LGBT rights program at Human Rights worldwi have supported lears wh anti-gay year Brazilians elected far-right lear Jair Bolsonaro as print, a man who once said he would rather his son die an accint than brg home a male More: LGBTI People Are at Risk of Beg Left Behd the Fight to End Extreme Poverty.