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Mexico: Mayor of Mexico City Will Not Veto Gay Marriage Law

Friday, January 1st, 2010

The mayor of Mexico City has refused to veto the bill introducing gay marriage, the Informador reported. The law, which was approved on 21 December, has suffered consistent criticism, with opponents urging Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the progressive Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) to exercise his mayoral right to veto. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Mexico, Cardinal Noberto Rivera Carrera, deemed the bill “immoral” and “reprehensible.”

Ebrard, however, has refused to overturn the new rules, which include specific rights for gays to adopt and are scheduled to take effect in March.

Alejandro Rojas, the city’s tourism secretary said: “Mexico City will become a center, where people from all over the world will be able to come and have their wedding, and then spend their honeymoon here”.

Full Story from Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/31/mexico-city-mayor-refuses-to-veto-gay-marriage-legislation/

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Mexico: Will Gay Marriage Bring Gays/Lesbians to Mexico City?

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Tourism officials in Mexico say they hope to attract gay couples who want to marry in the capital city. The city became the first capital city to legalise gay marriage in Latin America last week.

According to Press Association, Alejandro Rojas, the city’s tourism secretary, said: “Mexico City will become a centre, where [gay] people from all over the world will be able to come and have their wedding, and then spend their honeymoon here.

“We are already in talks with some travel agencies that are planning to offer package tours that include flights, hotels, guides, and everything they need for the wedding, like banquets. We are going to become a city on a par with Venice or San Francisco.”

Full Story from Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2009/12/30/mexico-city-hopes-to-attract-gay-marriage-tourism/

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Mexico: Analyzing the Effect of Gay Marriage in Mexico City

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Gay and lesbians couples can now legally marry and adopt children in Mexico City, after a historic but not necessarily surprising vote in the legislative assembly. The Distrito Federal’s governing representative body is dominated by the leftist PRD, or Democratic Revolutionary Party, and for weeks word had spread on online networks that the Monday vote was coming.

It came down beautifully, 39-20, to change the Federal District’s legal code to define a marriage as a union between two willing adults, in effect fortifying a 2006 law already allowing same-sex unions. A separate vote also gave same-sex marriages the right to adopt children.

What does this mean for you? If you’re not in a committed same-sex relationship within the borders of the Mexican capital, you’re probably thinking, ‘Not a whole lot.’ But as Time points out, gay-rights advocates across Catholic-heavy Latin America are hoping that the Mexico City vote could create a ripple-effect in other regions:

Full Story from The Faster Times: http://thefastertimes.com/mexico/2009/12/27/the-meaning-of-the-gay-marriage-vote-in-mexico-city/

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Mexico: Mexico City Legalizes Gay Marriage

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children. The bill passed the capital’s local assembly 39-20 to the cheers of supporters who yelled: “Yes, we could! Yes, we could!”

Leftist Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the Democratic Revolution Party was widely expected to sign the measure into law.

Mexico City’s left-led assembly has made several decisions unpopular elsewhere in this deeply Roman Catholic country, including legalizing abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. That decision sparked a backlash, with the majority of Mexico’s other 32 states enacting legislation declaring life begins at conception.

Full Story from SFGate: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/21/international/i131903S07.DTL

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Mexico: Gay Marriage Coming to Mexico City?

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Two years after passing a civil unions law for gay and lesbian couples, Mexico City is preparing to debate gay marriage, the AFP reported. Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) assemblyman David Razu introduced the bill at a press event on Tuesday.

“We only want everyone treated equally under the law, there is no intention to violate anyone’s rights, this simply acknowledges the rights of one social sector with no detriment to another,” he said.

The bill leaves the issue of adoption open. Razu said he expects the issue to be heavily discussed throughout the legislative process.

Full Story from On Top Magazine: http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=4914&MediaType=1&Category=24

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