This just in from the Associated Press!
The Mexico City local assembly voted today to allow same-sex marriage, 39 to 20. The city had already passed a domestic partnership (leyes de convivencia) bill in 2007, but that was considered a symbolic victory at best, since it provided no more rights to same-sex couples than those already permitted under the law. This same-sex marriage law, which D.F. mayor Marcelo Ebrard is expected to sign into law, looks like a much more sweeping measure, and will allow gay couples to adopt children, be covered under health insurance plans, and to apply for bank loans as a couple.
The same-sex marriage law will only affect Mexico City, and no other states in Mexico, but it’s a start! I wish I was in Mexico City tonight. If you’re there, upload pictures of the festivities!
everyone's using this image, but how can I resist?
Special thanks to Monika Fabian for being the one to bring this to my attention.
[...] you want to see an ugly reminder that not everyone is happy about the Mexico City assembly’s decision to legalist gay marriage, head over to Blabbeando, where Andrés reports about Televisa host Esteban Arce using his morning [...]
[...] Rodríguez and Felipe, after the good news of gay marriage in DF, wrote an open letter to La Jornada that Macha Mexico considers important to translate [...]
[...] After same-sex marriage was legalized last December 21st, conservatives in Mexico City didn’t wait much to protest and take action against this legal decision. Mariana Gómez del Campo from the conservative Partido de Acción Nacional is the leader of a campaign against same-sex marriage who argues, first, that Mexican constitution states that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Second, Gómez del Campo and her followers argue that adoption by same-sex couples is against the rights of children. Having total support from President Felipe Calderón, Gómez del Campo has been promoting her cause through the press. Also, in order to prove how right she is about how a family should be, she conducted a survey to ask if Mexican people agree or not with same-sex marriage. The survey proved to be tricky sooner rather than later, but sadly enough it also proved to be a tool to promote negative opinions regarding GLBT families within Mexican society. [...]