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Added on: 01/02/2024

2023 World Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Rights Progress – Part 2: Latin America and Caribbean

12/31/2023

Latin American and the Caribbean didn’t see quite the dynamic changes that came in 2022, when three countries decriminalized gay sex and one legalized same-sex marriage. But…

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Added on: 12/28/2023

LGBT+ activists across Latin America welcome Vatican move on same-sex blessings

12/27/2023

SÃO PAULO – Catholic members of LGBT+ communities in Latin America have welcomed a new Vatican declaration on the possibility of blessings for same-sex couples, including in…

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Added on: 06/28/2023

Sexual diversity: 10% of Chileans say they feel part of the LGBT+ community and 65% favor adoption by gay parents

06/27/2023

Research company Ipsos has launched a new edition of the report “LGBT+ Pride 2023”, a study that highlights society’s perception of sexual diversity around the world and…

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Added on: 10/26/2022

Gender: X – Proud owner of Chile’s first non-binary ID card

10/25/2022

Shane Cienfuegos, the first non-binary person to receive a gender-neutral identity document in Chile, says they feel a “great weight” of responsibility despite their victory over centuries…

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Added on: 08/07/2022

LGBT skiers in Chile paint Andean slopes with rainbow colors

08/05/2022

LGBTIQ+ skiers drenched the Andean slopes nestling this ski resort with rainbow colors on Friday at the opening of the first gay skiing event in Chile. Dozens…

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Added on: 05/19/2022

Chile’s LGBTQ+ street artists see work defaced with homophobic slurs

05/17/2022

SANTIAGO, May 17 (Openly) – It was meant to be an open-air museum dedicated to Chile’s LGBTQ+ community, but days after the 40-meter (131-foot) mural was completed,…

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Added on: 03/11/2022

Chile’s first gay couple gets married as equality law finally comes into effect: ‘Long live Chile!’

03/10/2022

Holding their two boys in their arms, Javier Silva and Jaime Nazar exchanged vows before sharing a kiss in the Civil Registry of Providencia of Santiago, Chile’s…

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Added on: 12/23/2021

Tourism to jobs: How Chile’s same-sex marriage law could lift the economy

12/22/2021

LONDON/SAO PAULO, Dec 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – At his LGBT-friendly boutique hotel in Chile’s capital, Will Martin is hoping the country’s decision this month to legalise…

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Added on: 12/16/2021

Factbox: Chile’s presidential candidates on mining, pensions and LGBT rights

12/15/2021

SANTIAGO, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Chile will go to the polls to elect a new president on Sunday, a stark choice between leftist former student protest leader…

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Added on: 12/10/2021

Chile’s Pinera signs historic same-sex marriage bill into law

12/09/2021

SANTIAGO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Chile’s center-right President Sebastián Piñera signed into law a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Thursday, days after it was approved by Congress…

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Added on: 12/09/2021

“As Chile legalises same-sex marriage, where in Europe is making the most progress on LGBT rights? “

12/08/2021

Chileans have been celebrating after their Congress approved equal marriage yesterday. Votes by politicians were overwhelmingly in favour of the legislation, with the Senate voting 21-8 in…

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Added on: 12/08/2021

‘Love is love:’ Chile legalizes same-sex marriage in historic vote

12/07/2021

Chile’s Congress passed a law to legalize same-sex marriage on Tuesday, in a milestone for the conservative South American nation after a decade-long legal battle and with…

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Added on: 12/02/2021

Chile lawmakers set to approve same-sex marriage bill

12/1/2021

Santiago (AFP) – Chile’s parliament is set to approve a long-awaited bill to legalize same-sex marriage Tuesday, joining just a handful of countries in majority Catholic Latin America…

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Added on: 12/01/2021

Chile makes history with election of first-ever trans person to its legislature

11/30/2021

Chile has made history by electing the first-ever transgender official to its legislature during the 2021 parliamentary elections. Emilia Schneider, a transgender woman and activist, received 26,000…

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Added on: 11/24/2021

Chile’s lower house approves same-sex marriage, bill sent back to Senate

11/23/2021

Chile’s lower house approved on Tuesday a bill that would permit same-sex marriage in the South American country of 19 million, sending the measure back to the…

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Added on: 11/14/2021

Thousands march in Chilean capital’s pride parade

11/13/21

Police in Santiago told Reuters the parade was “massive,” but did not give participation figures. The LGBT community wants Chile to approve equal marriage or the adoption…

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Added on: 09/23/2021

Latin America LGBTQI+ Panel at San Sebastian: Trends, Hurdles

09/22/2021

Taking place inside a cool, concrete extension of the San Telmo Museum, a dedicated Basque cultural hub, the challenges facing LGBTQI+ cinema in Latin America was the…

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Added on: 07/22/2021

Chile senators approve gay marriage bill; one step left

07/21/2021

Senators in Chile passed a long-awaited bill Wednesday authorizing same-sex marriage, in what LGBT campaigners hope will be the penultimate step to its final approval. Chile, which…

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Added on: 06/02/2021

Chile’s Pinera to push same-sex marriage bill long stuck in Congress

06/01/2021

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said on Tuesday he would seek to expedite a same-sex marriage bill that has languished in the historically conservative South American nation for…

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Added on: 09/25/2020

A Step Backward for Same-Sex Couples in Chile

09/24/2020

Over three years ago, the Chilean government sent a bill to Congress to uphold same-sex marriage. The bill has not moved forward. Instead, Chile has been taking…

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Added on: 06/15/2020

Lesbian mothers recognized by Chilean court in historic verdict

06/14/2020

This week, the Second Family Court of Chile ordered the Civil Registry Service to register a child on his birth certificate as the son of two women….

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Added on: 03/07/2020

Chile changing: transgender student leader lends voice to renewed protests

03/06/2020

As the long southern hemisphere summer holiday draws to an end this month, students in Chile are returning to college – but not always to classes. Many…

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Added on: 11/30/2019

Latin American Human Rights Lawyers Join Forces for LGBT Rights

11/29/2019

In a gathering in Bogota, Colombia on Nov. 19, 40 human rights lawyers from across Latin America launched an innovative “Red Litigio LGBT” – an LGBT Litigation…

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Added on: 11/07/2019

Demand For Rights and anti-LGBT Violence Marks Chile’s Political Crisis

11/05/2019

In less than three days a protest organized by students against the increase in subway fares turned into an imposing and unexpected national protest over years of…

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Added on: 09/13/2019

EQUAL MARRIAGE: HARBOE POSTPONED VOTE AND MOVILH DENOUNCED CENSORSHIP

09/10/2019

The president of the Senate Constitution Commission, Felipe Harboe (PPD), postponed the vote on the idea of legislating for equal marriage , arguing that he should listen…

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Added on: 09/12/2019

Gay rights groups push for same-sex marriage in Chile

09/10/2019

Gay rights activists are renewing efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Chile. Two groups have formally asked the South American country’s controller-general to require President Sebastián Piñera’s…

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Added on: 08/03/2019

Chilean Senate Once Again Begins Equal Marriage Debate

07/29/2019

The Chilean Senate’s Constitution Committee on Tuesday once again began to debate an equal marriage bill that former President Michelle Bachelet introduced two years ago. The renewed…

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Added on: 07/01/2019

The LGBTQ artists using music as resistance in Latin America

06/30/2019

Over the last decade, several openly queer musicians have emerged in Latin America. They use their music to combat hate. As the region has seen a rise…

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Added on: 06/23/2019

Struggle among progress as countries restrict LGBTQ rights

06/23/2019

The world has been transformed in many ways in the 50 years since the uprising at the Stonewall Inn, with major shifts in the past decade alone…

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Added on: 02/06/2019

Living in Venezuela Now is Hard. Being LGBTI Makes it Harder

02/04/2019

Venezuela’s shrinking economy has sparked an exodus of LGBT+ people as the economic crisis has put the brakes on the country’s growing tolerance towards its gay and…