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Sunday, April 7th, 2013
A popular Mexican rock group, Mana, has sent out a Facebook message to fans supporting marriage equality. Gay Star News reports:
Mana, the hugely popular Mexican rock band, has come out in support of gay marriage. Earlier this week the band’s vocalist and guitarist Fher Olvera took to Facebook to send a positive message to the group’s eight million followers and fans. Olvera, who married his wife Monica Noguera last year, also included a link to a Youtube video from 2009 where New York state senator Diane Savino gave an inspiring speech about the then-pending marriage equality bill.
More and more celebrities around the world are throwing their support behind marriage equality. Kudos to Mana. 
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
After Oaxaca’s gay marriage ban was recently struck down by the Supreme Court, the first same sex couple just got married there, legally. Gay Star News reports:
LGBT rights group the Oaxaca Front for the Respect and Recognition of Sexual Diversity announced on Thursday that the two unnamed women had married on March 22 in a private ceremony. The women were one of three couples that had challenged the state’s ban on same-sex marriage in the Mexican Supreme Court last year.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2013
Just months after the Mexican Supreme Court dramatically struck down a ban on marriage equality in the state of Oaxaca, a gay couple in the state of Colima got married. On Top Magazine reports:
A male gay couple became the first to marry in the Mexican state of Colima on February 27. The men, both 30, married in the town of Cuauhtemoc, CNNMexico reported. Two additional gay couples are set to marry and seven couples have also filed a formal request, said the town’s mayor, Indira Vizcaino Silva.
The town’s Mayor allowed the weddings, in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling. The Mexican court system works a little differently than the US’s system – the Court doesn’t have the ability to extend a ruling like the one in Oaxaca automatically to all the other states. Still, it set a strong precedent, one that the other states may be loath to break.
Congratulations to the happy couples!
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Following in the footsteps of Canada’s high court last month, Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that anti-gay slurs are not protected speech. The Washington Blade reports:
The justices in their 3-2 ruling concluded the words “maricones” and “punal” two newspaper reporters from the state of Puebla used to criticize each others work are offensive and discriminatory. “It was determined that the expressions ‘maricones’ and ‘punal’ as they were used in this present case were not found to be protected under the Constitution,” it reads.
It can be dangerous to limit free speech, but some words have clearly been determined to be out of bounds by society (see the N word), and we agree that words like these (and the equivalent f word) should similarly be proscribed.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
The Mexican Supreme Court continues to advance the cause of marriage equality i the country, striking down a gay marriage ban in the Mexican state of Oaxaca Monday. Buzzfeed reports:
The ruling not only makes a strong statement about Mexican law’s treatment of equal protection guarantees, it also relies heavily on civil rights rulings handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. Although several justices of the American court take pride in not caring what foreign courts say, any who read the Mexican decision will find the court makes an impassioned case for the United States to follow its lead. Writing for a unanimous tribunal, Minister Arturo Zaldivar Lelo de Larrea invoked the U.S. cases Loving v. Virginia and Brown v. Board of Education to argue for marriage equality in a way that American activists would be overjoyed to see from a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Buzzfeed cautions that we’re not quite there yet in Mexico, even after this ruling:
Technicalities of the country’s legal system mean that only the three couples who brought this case will be able to marry right away. Mexico City is still the only jurisdiction inside Mexico where marriage between same-sex couples is fully legal; several more lawsuits will have to be brought before that right is available nationwide.
But full marriage equality is clearly on the way in Mexico. Cause for celebration.
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Friday, December 7th, 2012
The Mexican state of Oaxaca will legalize gay marriage after the nation’s top court unanimously declared its marriage law, which excludes gay and lesbian couples, to be unconstitutional.
On Wednesday, the nation’s Supreme Court (la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (SCJN)) sided with three gay couples who wish to marry in the state.
Lawmakers on Thursday met to discuss two proposals aimed at amending the state’s civil code, which currently defines marriage as a heterosexual union.
See the Full Story at On Top Magazine
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
In what activists are hailing as a landmark ruling, today the Mexican Supreme Court struck down the ban on same-sex marriage.
The court ruled on behalf of three same-sex couple seeking to marry in the southern state of Oaxaca. The court had already ruled in 2010 that gay marriages performed under a Mexico City ordinance had to be recognized nationwide. With this precedent, the remaining bans on gay marriage in most Mexican states could quickly fall.
This ruling does not immediately eliminate marriage statutes limiting unions to a man and a woman–the Mexican Supreme Court doesn’t have the power to strike down state laws like that en mass as the United States Supreme Court does.
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2012
Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.
Penzi can help you plan the perfect wedding day in San Miguel de Allende – something you’ll remember forever!!
We specialize in planning weddings and events in San Miguel de Allende, a beautiful colonial town named as a world heritage site in the heart of Mexico. You’ll find romantic cobblestone boulevards, great restaurants, fun bars, boutique stores and art galleries.
Penzi (LOVE or DESIRE in Swahili) will bring this Desire and Love to your ceremony.
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Sunday, August 12th, 2012
Periodically we’ll feature one of our vendors here to let our readers know about some great people who can help you plan the perfect wedding.
Isla Mujares is a small island with big fun. Enjoy a sunset ceremony with your partner on a white sand beach, or a celebratory spin around town in a balloon-festooned golf cart.
How about a wonderful reception with your guests – chicken mole tamales steamed in banana leaves, and a toast with Mexico’s finest reposado tequilas. Your wedding memories to savor for a lifetime.
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A popular Mexican rock group, Mana, has sent out a Facebook message to fans supporting marriage equality. Gay Star News reports:
