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• CHILE: LAWMAKERS APPROVE CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY OR HETEROSEXUAL COUPL
• FIRST CHILEAN POLICEMAN GAY UNN CELEBRAT SANTIAGO
• CHILE: LAW ON CIVIL UNN FOR GAYS WH REACH
• GAY COUPL CHILE SIGN UP FOR FIRST CIVIL UNNS
• POPE FRANCIS ENDORS CIVIL UNN LAWS FOR GAY UPL NEW DOCUMENTARY
• GAY SANTIAGO

CHILE: LAWMAKERS APPROVE CIVIL UNNS FOR GAY OR HETEROSEXUAL COUPL

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. Most of those expected to benef om the civil unns are heterosexual upl, though the move is also seen as a big step forward for gay rights. Chile, one of Lat Ameri’s richt untri, is heavily fluenced by the Roman Catholic Church, which has tradnally nsired homosexualy sful.

FIRST CHILEAN POLICEMAN GAY UNN CELEBRAT SANTIAGO

” A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 8 of the New York edn wh the headle: Chile: Lawmakers Approve Civil Unns for Gay or Heterosexual Coupl. SANTIAGO (Rters) - A uniformed policeman celebrated his gay civil unn Chile’s pal, Santiago, on Wednday, the first time a member of the force has taken advantage of a new law allowg civil partnerships the nservative South Amerin unns were approved by Chile’s Congrs last year after four years of legislative law, which took effect October is seen as a big step forward for gay rights nservative Chile.

CHILE: LAW ON CIVIL UNN FOR GAYS WH REACH

“To let everyone know that you’re gay isn’t easy, but if you have the support of iends, fay, and the people that you know, there’s no problem, ” said Hugo All, after celebratg his civil unn wh Jose Luis Vals. ”Acrdg to Rolando Jimenez, lear of the Chilean gay rights group, Movilh, the move reprents a broar trend of police and ary begng to knock down barriers to cln. Daniela EstradaSANTIAGO, May 17 2006 (IPS) - Chile may soon have a law to regulate the herance rights of both homosexual and unmarried heterosexual upl, acrdg to activists and lawyers who are workg on a draft versn of the law.

Her rival, rightwg bsman Sebastián Piñera, was also favour of the iative, although his ally the n-off ballot, Joaquín Lavín of the nservative Inpennt Democratic Unn, proclaimed his total opposn to legalisg civil unns for homosexuals.

In the prent favourable polil scenar, reprentativ of the Movement for Homosexual Integratn and Liberatn (MOVILH) and of the Human Rights Programme of the Faculty of Law at the private Diego Portal Universy are drawg up a draft law that will benef mon law heterosexual upl as well as gays and lbians.

GAY COUPL CHILE SIGN UP FOR FIRST CIVIL UNNS

Panelists clud Jiménez, Carlos Pizarro, a lawyer specialised civil law, and Miguel Angel Sánchez, a lear of Spa’s gay rights movement. “I have found that Chilean GLBT (gay, lbian, bisexual and transsexual) anisatns, pecially MOVILH, are tremendoly active, and are settg forth very ser proposals, ” Sánchez, who fds many siari between Chilean and Spanish society on this issue, mented to IPS. The Chilean gay movement has terpreted this meetg as a posive signal om the Bachelet admistratn.

Sánchez emphasised that the legislatn that MOVILH is promotg will benef not only the gay and lbian muny, but also unmarried heterosexual upl, who have no legal protectn of their social and property rights. One of the fom participants, a gay Chilean man who has lived wh his partner for 10 years, said that he had rorted to a number of legal manovr orr to ensure that his partner would not be left stute if he himself should have an accint or die. “But did place the mands of homosexuals the eye of the public” said Jiménez, addg that surveys showed that 60 to 70 percent of the Chilean populatn were favour of the iative.

POPE FRANCIS ENDORS CIVIL UNN LAWS FOR GAY UPL NEW DOCUMENTARY

At the fom, some participants were unsure about what mands the Chilean homosexual movement might make the future, once such a momento ga as the right to civil unns has been achieved. “The cy of Buenos Air already has a law on civil unns, and the Argente gay muny has prented a siar draft law at the natnal level, which has a good chance of beg approved, ” Sánchez said.

Expected to e to force May, the reform reprents a major victory for Chile’s gay and lbian activists who have been the leadg actors behd the ph for same-sex relatnship regnn.

Ined, Chile ntu to be a notable straggler the expansn of gay and lbian rights among the regn’s most prospero untri (there exists a rrelatn Lat Ameri between levels of enomic velopment and the extensn of gay and lbian rights). In The Polics of Gay Marriage Lat Ameri, to be released May, I e Chile as one of three s to acunt cross-natnal variance the expansn of gay rights by lookg at gay marriage particular.

GAY SANTIAGO

Compared wh two untri which gay marriage has been approved (Argenta and Mexi), I monstrate that Chile is the straggler the extensn of rights bee of three ma factors: the historic weakns of s gay movement and s nsequent abily to tablish strong works; the nfiguratn of s natnal polil stutns (which allow socially nservative forc veto power on moral policy reform); and a polil procs based on nsens that lims the abily to brg about signifint policy change.

Given the factors, the prospects of havg Chile approve gay marriage soon appear, for now, rather slim, and are likely to ntue makg Chile a laggard on gay rights. Dos mujer ntraen matrimon, te juevEFESeis m spués que la printa Michelle Bachelet promulgara la ley, Chile enzó te juev a celebrar s primeros acuerdos unn civil, que regula jurídimente las unn parejas homosexual y heterosexual que no han ntraído matrimon. “Hoy nos sumamos a los 37 país que tienen algún tipo renocimiento para parejas l mismo sexo y o una tupenda noticia para toda la sociedad”, di Larraín, que participó en los ftejos en las afueras un registro civil l centro la Santiago Chile, don parejas homosexual y heretosexual celebraron n bail y ntos las primeras unn.

Las ceremonias se efectúan en los registros civil y han ado un terés ampl en la ciudadanía: hasta el 31 octubre existen 1500 horas solicadas, n un 40% parejas homosexual. A diferencia los matrimons, no necar tener ttigos y se pue falizar por voluntad AUC termará n suacn plejas que bían enentar en Chile las cer dos lon parejas nvivient, sobre todo las homosexual. Con la implementación l acuerdo, se renocerán n efecto retroactivo los matrimons entre homosexual y las unn civil celebradas fuera l país.