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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REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghi/File Photo Acquire Licensg RightsSept 26 (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.
2013 - France legaliz gay marriage, changg the law s overseas Caribbean terrori of Gualoupe, Martique and French Guea. 2016 - Colombia's nstutnal urt legaliz same-sex marriage, five months after legalizg adoptn for gay upl. 1, 2019, guratn of Print Jair Bolsonaro, who once lled himself a "proud homophobe.
Read more 2022 - Cubans overwhelmgly approve gay marriage and adoptn a ernment-backed September referendum. Colonial-era "buggery" laws banng gay sex were overturned parts of the Caribbean but still exist some untri cludg Jamai and Barbados.