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CHILE'S FIRST GAY UPLE WEDS AS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAW TAK EFFECT
Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Supporters of LGBT rights celebrate the passg of a same-sex marriage law by Chile's parliamentChile has approved a landmark law allowg same-sex marriage the historilly Catholic legislatn, overwhelmgly approved by parliament on Tuday, also enabl gay upl to adopt children. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe legalizatn of same-sex marriage Chile as the untry grappl wh sweepg mands for social Berti/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagSANTIAGO, Chile — Lawmakers Chile on Tuday legalized same-sex marriage, a landmark victory for gay rights activists that unrsr how profoundly the untry’s polics and society have shifted the past overwhelmg majori both chambers, lawmakers put the unns of same-sex upl on par wh others, makg Chile the 31st natn to allow gay marriage and takg a signifint step toward nsolidatg as the norm Lat vote as Chile, long seen as a stable and nservative untry the regn, grappl wh an urgent mand for sweepg social change om var sectors of society.
Augto Pochet’s dictatorship, and rewre the laws that ame the moment of reckong showed how out of touch the polil class had been on a broad range of issu, cludg gay rights, said Rolando Jiménez, one of the lears of Movilh, a leadg gay rights anizatn Chile. Esteban Felix/Associated PrsThe requt was nied, as expected, and the uple left the buildg to addrs the reporters who had been nvened outsi by Movilh, the gay rights was the first salvo of a legal battle that unfold for more than a before judg at home and Peralta followed the vote and wept as he heard the rult. ”Gay activists Chile were well aware of the odds they faced when they set the legalizatn procs rights activists Lat Ameri had been embolned by Argenta, which beme the first natn the regn to legalize same-sex marriage wh a ngrsnal vote July the time, neighborg Chile, which was more polilly nservative, was far om ready to follow su.
Realizg had ltle legislative support, Movilh took the se to the appeals urt late 2010, and eventually to the Supreme Court, which April 2012 led agast the lg paved the way for Movilh to sue Chile 2012 before the Inter-Amerin Commissn on Human Rights, a judicial body that nsirs legal disput origatg member Alvarado/RtersAs the se was beg ligated, Chile passed a civil unns law 2015, but gay rights groups argued that same-sex upl were still prived of ccial rights, cludg the abily to years of negotiatns wh the missn, June 2016 the Chilean ernment agreed to set motn a procs to legalize same-sex 2017, the print at the time, Michelle Bachelet — a center-left polician who had prevly argued that marriage should be limed to a man and a woman — troduced a same-sex marriage bill. Members of the Movement for Homosexual Integratn and Liberatn celebrate after lawmakers approved legislatn legalizg marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl, Santiago, Chile, Tuday, Dec. This regnn of the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Chileans is the product of years of staed advocy by Chilean activists.
CHILE LEGALIZ GAY MARRIAGE
Members of the Movilh — Movement for Homosexual Integratn and Liberatn — celebrate after lawmakers approved legislatn legalizg marriage and adoptn by same-sex upl, Santiago, Chile, on Tuday. Existg laws allow gay upl to une unr a Civil Unn Pact, which was approved 2015 and giv upl many of the same rights as married but ni them the right to adopt. On Tuday Kast, a Catholic who do not support gay marriage and has opposed the measure the past, revealed that he would have signed the bill to law anyway if he had been print, Rters reported.
If this is achieved, homoparental upl uld also adopt children.