What a lovely way to celebrate Pride – Argentina was able to do that the same week that the 500th same sex wedding took place.
500 marriages in just three months is a great start. Just the beginning for Argentina and the rest of Latin America!
Posts Tagged: Argentina
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Nov 10
500 GAY MARRIAGES AND COUNTING IN ARGENTINA
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Jul 10
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY MARRIAGE
From Time magazine, written in a friendly but not especially authoritative way in my opinion. While brief I think this piece does miss key angles to the global eqality debates. That said its mere publication is TIME is useful and welcome.
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Jul 10
EMOTIONAL SCENES IN ARGENTINA
By Bob Witeck, with thanks to Rex Wockner. Spanish language reporting here
By good luck and rare timing, I am in Buenos Aires today with thousands of jubilant Argentine citizens and was able to attend and to witness this historic signing of the law introducing gay marriage at the Casa Rosada.
Afterwards, with immense serendipity, I was included with a handful of others led by Pablo DeLuca and Gustavo Noguera, with the Argentine LGBT Chamber, along with Justin Nelson and Chance Mitchell from NGLCC as well as New York based journalists Mike Luongo and Mark Chesnut, to stop by President Cristina’s office after the ceremony for what turned out to be nearly a half-hour personal conversation with her and a few of her staff.
With my near-extinct knowledge of Spanish, I was sadly reduced to witnessing this historic private moment. But like some immesnsely beautiful art films, there are times when words are somewhat powerless because feelings and emotions are so expressive and dominant.
In her office, after her official act was complete, she was captivating, dramatic, ebullient, intense and embracing — still touched by the poignancy of the signing ceremony itself. After she signed the legislation in the public space downstairs, we witnessed hundreds of the attendees inside the room and outside as well, begin to press forward to touch her, hug her, hand her flowers, seek photos with her …
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Jul 10
ACE ARGENTINE ADS
From the current heated campaign to bring equality to all of Argentina after Buenos Aires started gay marriages in December 2009. Currently the mot likely outcomes is civil unions but no marriage. With thanks to Rex Wockner for sharing.
Viva “The Same Love. The Same Rights. The Same Name.”
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Jul 10
MORE BAD NEWS FROM ARGENTINA
The stop-start, forward-back path to equality in Argentina took its latest step backwards today with a Senate committee advising against equality…. even though a majority actually support either equality or civil unions!
This comes after judges started allowed marriage in 2009, other judges stopped them and the Parliament’s lower house voted in favour of marriage equality!
Let the games continue …
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May 10
CATHOLIC DISSENT
other famous Catholic dissenters
Nice story here about some Catholic priests in Argentina with the conscience and courage to say what they really think about gay marriage rights.
And here the news of a Jesuit magazine editor, Father James Martin, who is keeping his faith in America’s weekly Catholic magazine but showing good sense about where gay marriage fits in the scheme of evils - unlike his unhinged and decidely fallible Pope.
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Apr 10
A PINK CIRCUS IN ARGENTINA
Norma Castillo and Ramona Arevalo
With more twists and flips than Matthew Mitcham or Greg Louganis or the Cirque du Soleil for that matter, Argentina’s on-again off-again relationship with gay marriage is no closer to final resolution.
After 2009 legal victories three marriages have now been annulled, including the first lesbian marriage, by mid-level courts, and one has been un-annulled. Some legislators are trying in vain to fix the problem for good via an equality law, while the Supreme Court is refusing to step in to uphold equality. A further fifty couples are getting nowhere with their request for a marriage license.
It must be hard not knowing if you are married from one day to the next. My hugs go out to the unlucky couples
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Apr 10
ARGENTINE BLOW
The formerly happy couple
Echoing the see-sawing equality debate in the US, Argentina gets in on the back-peddling act.
Despite the endorsement of the regional Governor, and continued momentum in Parliament for a marriage equality law, A mid-level Argentine court has struck down the first same sex marriage in Latin America. The couple – Alex Freyre and Jose Maria de Bello – are now taking their case to the Supreme Court.
