ADDED ON: 07/22/2021
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 legalized same-sex civil unions in…
ADDED ON: 06/02/2021
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 years. Chile’s LGBT community has…
ADDED ON: 05/22/2021
LGBTQ activists and organizations celebrated the results of last weekend’s historic elections in Chile in which eight openly queer candidates were elected to write the Latin American country’s new Constitution. They are…
ADDED ON: 09/25/2020
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 steps backward. Take the June…
ADDED ON: 06/15/2020
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. “This is a historic triumph…
ADDED ON: 03/07/2020
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 are getting ready to head…
ADDED ON: 11/30/2019
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 Network – in order to…
ADDED ON: 11/07/2019
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 inequalities in Chile that completely…
ADDED ON: 09/13/2019
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 to various organizations. The Movilh…
ADDED ON: 09/12/2019
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 government to promote a measure…
ADDED ON: 08/03/2019
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 legislative debate was announced last…
ADDED ON: 07/01/2019
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 of extreme right-wing beliefs, progress…
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