Support for marriage equality is making such rapid progress, with voters and with American politicians, that a major landmark in South America passed by with hardly any notice, when the Uruguay senate approved legislation for equal marriage. Yesterday the congressional lower…
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Gay Marriage, Brazil: Now Recognized in Sao Paulo
A judge in the Brazilian state of São Paulo has ruled that gay and lesbian couples in civil unions will no longer have to apply to the courts to have their relationships “upgraded” to marriage, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage in…
Gay Priest’s Partner Secures Pension Rights
The Catholic Church in Colombia has an embarrassing little difficulty. Following a ruling by the Constitutional Court, it will in have to pay pension benefits to surviving partners of its priests. Colombian Catholic priest’s gay partner wins his pension |…
Gay Marriage – Colombia? (In two years).
The momentum towards marriage equality continues, in heavily Catholic Latin America. Colombia was one of the first South American states to provide for near equality by way of civil unions for same-sex couples, but has stalled on that one extra…
Gay Marriage, Uruguay?
I don’t know how I missed this when it first appeared a month ago, but it is yet another example of the global move towards marriage equality – even in deeply Catholic countries, where Catholic politicians are prepared to do…
Civil Unions for Chile? President Pinera Sends Bill to Congress
Even in overwhelmingly Catholic Latin America, marriage equality and near equality continues to advance. Chile could be the next Catholic country to approve near-marriage, while avoiding the m-word itself. When it does so, Chile will join Argentina, which has full…
Brazil Court Grants Gay Couples Same Rights as Heterosexuals
Is Brazil the next landmark on the way to marriage equality? At present, Argentina and Mexico are the only countries in Latin America to give legal recognition to full same sex marriage, but Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay provide for civil…
Equality Struggle: Lessons From Latin America
Coming as I do from South Africa where I was born and lived for over half a century, I am acutely aware of the White South African tendency to think, speak and write from within a White mental framework, even…
