In a first, gay Mexin uple has U.S. marriage regnized by Mexi

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• IN A FIRST, GAY MEXIN UPLE HAS U.S. MARRIAGE REGNIZED BY MEXI
• WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
• GAY MEXIN UPLE MAK HISTORY WH NEW YORK WEDDG
• GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI

IN A FIRST, GAY MEXIN UPLE HAS U.S. MARRIAGE REGNIZED BY MEXI

After one iend requt, not only was the rt history, so to speak, but unbeknownst to them at the time, they were on their way to makg week, Berezowsky, a munitns specialist at human rights anizatn Shift, and Chávez Alor, a lawyer for the Vance Center for Internatnal Jtice, beme the first gay uple to have a marriage performed outsi of Mexi regnized by Mexin law.

The first male gay uple featured on the TLC anchise got married at the Mansarda wery Ensenada, Baja California, Mexi, on Saturday, PEOPLE n exclively announce. The emotnal uple, who first met through a gay fathers support group and immediately h off, wrote their own vows to share their roller aster ri of a love story. The two beme fan favor durg last year's season of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way, durg which they navigated Armando g out as gay to his mom and the stggl of his fay acceptg his relatnship, so the realy star was exced for them to see their touchg unn.

WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY

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GAY MEXIN UPLE MAK HISTORY WH NEW YORK WEDDG

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By Osr LopezMEXICO CITY, June 21 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - A Mexin soap opera that buts on Sunday is set to make televisn history as the untry's first telenovela to feature a gay uple as the leadg characters.

Telenovelas are hugely popular Mexi and n fluence natnal dialogue on social issu across Lat first gay kiss socially nservative Brazil on the soap "Amor a Vida" 2014 was seen as a historic moment gay are exported around the world, and "Mi Marido Tiene Mas Faia" was broadst the Uned Stat on s largt Spanish-language statn, of a spoff show featurg Aristotel and Temo, or 'Aristemo' as they are known, sent fans to a enzy on social media. "Mexin telenovelas have featured gay characters but they are relegated to sendary rol, while lbian relatnships have only been reprented the past few characters have featured creasgly on soap operas around the world, om the first openly lbian character on "All My Children" 1983 to the first transgenr character on a Brish soap, "Coronatn Street, " 1998.

GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI

"It shows that there are a lot of people, and a lot of young people of different ag who are terted beg able to nnect wh this kd of story, " said Santiago Peda, one of the wrers of both the origal show and s supporters say the show has brought greater acceptance of gay romance, and the spoff is a key moment for gay visibily.

Dpe progrs on LGBT+ rights, Mexi remas a nservative, Catholic untry where gay people often may face vlence and discrimatn. "Fans tell stori that they've been able to e out of the closet wh their fay, that Aristemo helped them e out, " he has stoked ntroversy as Leal, a polician wh the lg Morena party the state of Nuevo Leon, said on Twter January: "It's clear that televisn channels are tryg to 'normalize' homosexualy om youth wh a pro-LGBT agenda. "That and other ments eventually led to his expulsn om the wh the LGBT+ muny say the portrayal of gay love is sanized and unrealistic.