Tag Archives: Mexico

The first same-sex marriage in the Mexican state of Baja California took place yesterday after a local couple finally prevailed over the hate group that thwarted their wedding last week by charging them with mental illness. Via the San Diego U-T: Two Mexicali residents became the first same-sex couple to be married in Baja California on Saturday, ending a quest …

As anti-gay activists wearing surgical masks protested outside Mexicali City Hall, the first same-sex wedding in the state of Baja California was thwarted yesterday after a local Christian group filed a legal complaint that the grooms are mentally ill. Via U-T San Diego: Saturday’s ceremony had been on the civil registry’s calendar for weeks. Hours after a spokesman for the …

Bishop Jose Maria de la Torre Martin is very concerned that if his Mexican state of Aguascalientes were to approve its proposed same-sex marriage bill, next will come “allowing a man to marry a dog and they can inherit the puppies.” Gay marriage is presently legal in the nation’s capital and in the states of Quintana Roo and Coahuila, the …

Tras su aprobación en Coahuila … ‘Incita a la homofobia marcha contra matrimonio gay’ http://t.co/a9pkfKWd1P — Alfredo Galindo (@AlfredoGalindo) September 29, 2014 Via On Top Magazine: An estimated thirty-thousand people marched Sunday in protest of a new law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The protest, which took place in the city of …

Same-sex marriage was legalized yesterday in the Mexican border state of Coahuila. Rex Wockner reports: For the first time, a Mexican state legislature has voted to legalize same-sex marriage. The Sept. 1 vote by the Congress of the state of Coahuila was 19-1. The new law, which alters more than 40 parts of the state’s Civil Code, takes effect in …

The New Yorker has published a fascinating profile on star Mexican wrestler Cassandro. An excerpt: At the top of the fun list, for Saúl [Armendáriz], was lucha libre—the flashy, popular Mexican brand of professional wrestling. Every barrio had a small arena where masked heroes (técnicos) and villains (rudos) grappled and whirled and tossed one another around on Sundays. Saúl loved …

Brian Tashman writes at Right Wing Watch: Rep. Louie Gohmert is pretty sure that President Obama is pushing for minors to cross the border as part of a giant voter fraud scheme, and thinks that if the president were serious about cracking down on illegal immigration, then he would send troops to the Southern border … and perhaps into Mexico. …

Last month I reported that “ex-gay” crackpot Richard “Tennis Racket” Cohen was exporting his crazy to Mexico.  JMG reader Juan reports today that the event has been canceled following a petition campaign by the local LGBT community. Good for them! I’ll update this post if more details come to light.

Gay Star News reports that a Mexican church and local mayor have erected an anti-gay marriage billboard which cites the infamous Bible passage that calls for sinners to be executed. The billboard appeared in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas state in South East Mexico and images of it began to spread of social media earlier this month. One of …

Richard Cohen must know Spanish for “beat this pillow with a tennis racket and scream ‘Why, Mommy, why?'” because he’s taking his batshittery to Mexico. (Tipped by JMG reader Juan)

Via the New York Post: “Mexicoke,” the Mexican version of Coca-Cola that’s become a cult favorite north of the border may go the way of New Coke thanks to a Bloomberg-style “fat tax.” Arca Continental, the second largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, has indicated it may drop a key ingredient, cane sugar, after Mexico’s congress last week passed a …

ESPN has published a fascinating piece on Mexico’s “exoticos,” the (sometimes) straight men who play flamboyant characters on the professional wrestling circuit known as lucha libre. Contemporary luche libre is big business on television but retains its early folkloric identity. Exóticos date from the golden age of the sport, which ran from the 1940s through the 1960s. One of the …

Andres Duque notes some surprising support from Bishop Jose Raul Vera Lopez: The Bishop has some funky theories on what determines whether someone is born gay (he chalks it up to hormonal differences) but speaks forcefully against religious based homophobia and calls homophobes the perverse ones. He also tells the reporter people have to stop bashing gays with the words …

“Marriage should only be considered as those relationships in which the members have sex facing each other, which does not occur between homosexual couples.” –  Ana Maria Ortiz, of Mexico’s right wing National Action Party, speaking at a marriage equality forum in the state of Puebla. Ortiz went on to declare that research shows that the adopted children of gay …

The first same-sex wedding in the Mexican state of Yucatan was held yesterday. Translated from El Diario: The spouses are Javier Alberto Carrillo Esquivel and Ricardo Arturo Góngora, who last month won a federal injunction allowing them to get married. The gay wedding was hosted at the disco Blu Namu and was attended by 400 guests,  The couple, who wore …

About 30 gay activists in Mexico City picketed yesterday outside Russia’s embassy in a “message of solidarity” to Russia’s LGBT people. Details (in Spanish).

An openly gay man has been elected mayor of a county in the northern Mexico state of Zacatecas. Benjamin Medrano, a 47-year-old singer and gay bar-owner, says he is proud to be openly gay and rights groups say his victory in the city of Fresnillo’s July 7 election marks a significant point in the fight for gay rights.  They add …

Via Blabbeando.

Whoa. Note: There’s no audio on this clip.

Yesterday Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito issued the above tweets in recognition of the International Day Against Homophobia. “This May 17, International Day of the Fight Against Homophobia, I endorse my committment to a #InclusiveMexico, free of discrimination. Making Mexico a society of rights implies equality in dignity and eliminating all types of discrimination.”