Gay rights timele: Key dat the fight for equaly

chile gay rights timeline

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. 

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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). 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. 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.

GAY RIGHTS TIMELE: KEY DAT THE FIGHT FOR EQUALY

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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. Image ptn, A gay rights march Santiago May drew thoands of people onto the streetsChile has long had a reputatn as one of the most stralaced, socially nservative and homophobic untri Lat sex was crimalised only as recently as 1999, stark ntrast to Brazil and Argenta, where has been allowed sce the 19th this day, Chile is one of only four untri the regn where the age of nsent is higher for homosexuals than for heterosexuals.

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On Saturday 23 June, tens of thoands of people are expected to march though the pal, Santiago, mandg equaly - not jt for gays but for bisexuals, transvt, transsexuals and ed for Chilean society as a will be the untry's send March for Equaly.

The 2012 cens was the first Chile's history to give gays the optn to clare that they live a same sex the ernment is also changg the l on blood donatn to prevent potential donors om beg turned away simply for beg March, the Inter-Amerin Court of Human Rights (ICHR) led favour of a lbian mother who had been nied ctody of her dghters by Chile's Supreme Court bee she lived wh a woman. "Opn polls show that while most Chileans rema opposed to gay marriage - they view marriage as strictly between a man and a woman - they favour civil partnerships, which would put gay relatnships on a firmer legal is the view of the Print Sebastian Pera, who ma the troductn of civil partnerships an electn pledge 2009. He surprised many by cludg openly gay upl his mpaign year, his ernment sent a bill to parliament to legalise civil partnerships but has been blocked by nservativ wh his own aln and has ma ltle headway.

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