Tag Archives: Colombia

Colombian Interior Minister Juan Cristo yesterday vowed to soon make same-sex marriage legal. Via Gay Star News: “The government supports the fight for equality and we will adopt measures providing equal marriage rights for all,” Cristo said at the Andes University in Bogota on Thursday, as reported by Efe. He said he would not submit to the mercy of the …

Adoption by same-sex couples is presently before the courts in Colombia and this weekend local YouTube star Sebastian Villalobos, 19, who has 1.2M subscribers, revealed that he has two moms. The clip below has gone viral and already has over half a million views. The full Villalobos family appears at the 8:00 mark. Earlier this month the Colombian Constitutional Court …

Progress in Colombia: The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a lesbian woman,could adopt her long-time partner’s daughter, since the child in question was the biological child of one of the two partners. The court said Ana Leiderman, who underwent artificial insemination to conceive her daughter, and raised her with Veronica Botero, had the right to request an adoption by …

“Marriage between homosexuals to me is perfectly acceptable and what’s more I am defending unions that exist between two people of the same sex with the rights and all of the same privileges that this union should receive. If these unions are called marriage or not is secondary to me. For me it is important that they have their rights. …

“We do not see [gays] as being a family or married or an integral part of the social fabric but as needing clinical, psychiatric, medical and spiritual care, if possible, to help acknowledge their condition so that they can reverse it and recover their gender identity. I don’t think God created homosexuals. That would be an evil God.” – Colombia’s …

Blabbeando‘s Andres Duque reports a development in Colombia’s complicated journey towards marriage equality: In a surprising statement released on Wednesday, Colombian attorney and long-time LGBT-rights advocate Germán Humerto Rincón Perfetti announced that a civil court judge had declared Julio Albeiro Cantor Borbón and William Alberto Castro Franco “united in civil matrimony” in a ceremony that took place on September 20th. …

Colombia saw its first legal civil union yesterday. Or maybe it was a marriage. Nobody is sure. The newly legalized couple cheered the ceremony as a marriage, although experts cautioned that a high court ruling that deemed the union legal did not make it the equivalent of marriage. “We are civilly married,” Gonzalo Ruiz, 44, told The Associated Press just …

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has told Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez to drop his campaign to block same-sex marriages. J. Lester Feder reports at Buzzfeed: Ordoñez had been threatening disciplinary action against any official who took up this authority. His case was based on the fact that the court’s ruling did not specifically say that couples can “marry,” nor did it directly …

Michael Lavers has more at the Washington Blade: Caracol Radio reported that Carmen Lucía Rodríguez Díaz, a civil judge in Bogotá, the country’s capital, “defended the viability of marriage for gay couples” in a five page ruling she wrote after a couple identified as Diego and Juan petitioned her to legally recognize their relationship. The two men are expected to …

The Washington Blade notes that same-sex couples in Colombia might be able to register for marriages beginning this Friday. The country’s Constitutional Court in 2011 ruled gays and lesbians can legally register their relationships after June 20 if lawmakers failed to extend to them the same benefits heterosexuals receive through marriage. The Colombian Senate in April overwhelmingly rejected a measure …

As expected, the Colombian Senate today rejected its same-sex marriage bill by a vote of 51-17. 

Colombia’s Senate is expected to vote down its marriage equality bill today after a debate which is scheduled to begin within the hour of this writing.  Despite that prediction, today Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro ordered the above banner to be unfurled over city hall as LGBT activists demonstrated outside. Watch the debate and vote live here.  More photos from the …

Clip recap: “Marriage equality continues to spread, with major milestones this week that span from the Great Lakes region to the Mid-Atlantic. Plus, New Zealand becomes the 13th country to legalize the freedom to marry, and international progress continues from Colombia to Vietnam.”

The Colombian Senate was expected to vote on marriage equality yesterday, but instead they approved a vote to put it off for one more week. The Colombian Senate decides to suspend marriage equality vote until Tuesday (23 April) by a vote of 35-30. Only 65 senators attended the vote out of the Senate’s 102 members. During an intense discussion that …

The Colombian Senate will vote on same-sex marriage today. The Colombian Consitutional Court issued a ruling in 2011 (Sentencia C577/11) that requires the Congress to act by June 20, 2013, or else same-sex couples can present themselves to legal notaries to contract for their legal rights. The Court ruled that same-sex couples have equal legal rights to found a family, …

J. Lester Feder reports at Buzzfeed: In canceling the debate, senate president Barreras clearly placed blame on the LGBT activists. “Hooligans will not be permitted in Congress because it is the home of democracy,” he said in remarks published by El Espectador. “I have decided to suspend the discussion of this debate until we meet with the leaders of this …

Yesterday Colombia’s marriage equality bill passed by a vote of 10-5 in a Senate committee.  Via Gay Star News: The bill will now face a vote in the Colombian Senate however no date was yet set for a debate and vote. Senator Armando Benedetti, of the ruling Social Party of National Unity party said: ‘The marriage of couples of same-sex …

Good for her.

The bereaved and devoted parishioners of Father Richard Piffano, 37, and Father Rafael Reatiga, 35, say the men were killed by street robbers in all too common Colombian scenario. The police have another theory. Two Colombian priests who were found shot dead in the capital Bogota a year ago themselves hired the assassins who killed them, prosecutors say. They said …