The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage.
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CHILE: LANDMARK GAY RIGHTS RULG
LGBT Rights Chile: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * chile gay rights timeline *
Current statSce Dec 9, 2021Legal The new law that legaliz same-sex marriage also provis adoptn benefs to same-sex onlyLegalizatn onlyChilean law stipulat that sgle gays are allowed to adopt, but gay upl may not. Current statSce Apr 24, 2013Legal The Chilean Health Mistry repeals the blood ban after a year of lobbyg by the untry's leadg LGBT anizatn, Chilean Homosexual Integratn and Liberatn Movement (MOVILH).
GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY
Lat Ameri has a long history of enactg equy for gay and trans people, but there's still a lot of work to be done. * chile gay rights timeline *
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. Jtice Cristián Letelier Aguilar’s majory cisn—which four other jtic largely ncurred wh—argued that Chilean law, s nial of marriage rights to LGBT people, do not discrimate bee “a homosexual person n ntract marriage Chile if they do wh a person of the oppose sex.
GAY RIGHTS
As that Court noted 2015, nyg same-sex upl accs to the stutn of marriage “teach[] that gays and lbians are unequal” and “means” them by “lock[g] them out of a central stutn of the Natn's society.
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.