Tag Archives: Mexico

Mexico City Invites Gay Honeymooners

Mexico City has launched a new tourism office to lure gay honeymooners from around the world. “We hope that many same-sex couples who get married around the world spend their honeymoons here,” says Alejandro Rojas, the city’s tourism secretary. In July, the city opened an office aimed at catering to gay tourists that officials describe as the first of its …

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Mexico Wins Miss Universe

Holland and Spain approved same-sex marriage and both ended up in the World Cup final. And now weeks after Mexico ruled that same-sex marriages must be recognized nationwide, they win Miss Universe. Was karma one of those crazy things that Americans believe in?

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MEXICO: Groups Clash Over Marriage

The Catholic Church is fostering protests against same-sex marriage and adoption in Mexico with Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez saying publicly, “Would you want to be adopted by a pair of faggots or lesbians?” Things got very heated yesterday in Guadalajara. Gay rights activists and a group of Roman Catholics in Mexico have yelled insults at each other during dueling demonstrations …

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Mexico City Mayor Sues Catholic Cardinal Over Gay Marriage Accusations

Mexico City’s Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has filed a defamation lawsuit against Cardinal Juan Sandoval after the cardinal told the press that Ebrard had bribed Mexico’s Supreme Court justices to legalize same-sex marriage and gay adoption. Sandoval made the allegations on Sunday during an event in Aguascalientes state. He also used a slur against gays while decrying the recent high court …

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Gay Adoption Upheld In Mexico City

Updated bulletin from Rex Wockner: In a 9-2 vote this afternoon, Mexico’s Supreme Court upheld the portion of Mexico City’s same-sex marriage law that lets married gay and lesbian couples adopt. In two other rulings this month, the court had upheld the main part of the marriage law and ruled that same-sex couples who marry in Mexico City are validly …

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MEXICO: Supreme Court Rules That All States Must Recognize Same-Sex Marriage

The wins keep pouring in! Late this afternoon Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that all 31 states must recognize same-sex marriages performed in the nation’s capital, which at the moment is the only place they are legal. Mexico City is a separate federal entity, much like Washington, DC. In a 9-2 decision, the tribunal cited an article of the constitution requiring …

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Is Mexico Next For Marriage Equality?

Today Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled 8-2 that the legalization of same-sex marriage in the nation’s capital did not violate the Mexican constitution. Mexico City legalized gay marriage in March, but the ruling was challenged with the backing of the Catholic Church. Today’s decision not only squashed that challenge, it further stipulated that gay couples were free to adopt. How long …

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MEXICO: 17 Killed In Mass Slaying At Gay Party, Drug Traffickers Suspected

Seventeen people were murdered at a gay party in the northern Mexico city of Torreon yesterday. The party was advertised on Facebook, where it was noted that while the event was being organized by a gay group, all were welcome. Police say gunmen burst into the room and wordlessly opened fire after blocking the exits. Investigators have not ruled out …

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Mexico City Offers Free Honeymoon To First Gay-Married Argentine Couple

Mexico City’s tourism agency is offering a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to wed under Argentina’s just-passed marriage equality law. The offer was “in recognition of tolerance, but also to promote gay friendly tourism in Mexico City,” said Alejandro Rojas, according to a statement. Argentina on Thursday became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, …

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Tweet Of The Day – Arturo Sarukhan

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Rep. Steve King: Arizona Rep Has Already Ceded His District To Mexico

Moronic Rep. Steve King (R-IA) says that since Rep. Raul Grijalva is calling for a boycott of his own state, the U.S. has “already ceded” his district to Mexico. Bonus racist pandering points from Fox host Laura Ingraham in the below clip. Well, it looks like the case is that, that he’s trying to scare the businesses out of Arizona, …

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Bull To Matador: Ole’ THIS

One of the world’s most famous matadors was brutally injured during a bullfight in Mexico this weekend, prompting renewed calls to ban the “sport.” You may not want to watch this.

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MEXICANS GET OUT: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Signs Racist Anti-Immigrant Bill

Facing reelection and desperate to appease teabaggers, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has just signed her state’s racist anti-immigrant bill. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law the nation’s toughest legislation against illegal immigration Friday, a sweeping measure that supporters said would take handcuffs off police but which President Barack Obama said could violate people’s civil rights. The bill, sent to …

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Catholic Bishop: It’s All Because Of Porn

Bishop Felipe Arizmendi is blaming the Catholic church’s global pedophilia scandal on television and internet porn. “With so much invasion of eroticism, sometimes it’s not easy to stay celibate or to respect children,” Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said during an annual meeting of Mexican bishops near Mexico City on Thursday. “If on television and on the Internet and in so many …

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88 Gay Couples Married In Mexico City

So far 88 gay couples have wed under Mexico City’s new marriage equality law. A statement from Mexico City’s government says 50 of the couples were men and 38 women. It said Monday that 37 more gay couples are scheduled to be married between April and June. Mexico City’s legislature passed the first law in Latin America explicitly giving gay …

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Mexico City’s First Gay Marriages

Four gay couples legally married at Mexico City’s Municipal Palace yesterday in the first such event in their nation’s history. ¡Felicidades! The mayor was there. So were the protesters. Judith Vazquez wore an ivory wedding dress. So did her bride. Vazquez and Lol Kin Castaneda on Thursday became the first gay couple to marry in Mexico under a new law …

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Gay Marriage Comes To Mexico City

Today is the first day that gay couples in Mexico City can register to marry. The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December, gives gay people full marital rights, including the right to adopt. Several gay couples are now expected to register to get married as early as next week. Mexico City is one of the …

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Federal Gov’t Challenges Mexico City’s New Same-Sex Marriage Law

Mexico’s federal government has filed a challenge to Mexico City’s marriage equality law, saying it is dangerous to children. Or something. The federal Attorney General’s Office has challenged the law on the basis that it violates the constitution. The office has asked Mexico’s Supreme Court to void the law because it “strays from the responsibility of the government to place …

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VIDEO: Mexico City Approves Marriage

(Via – Towleroad)

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Mexico City Approves Gay Marriage

Today lawmakers in Mexico City legalized same-sex marriage! Mexico City is now the largest city in the world to approve marriage equality and is the second national capital to do so in less than a week, following Washington DC. Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will …

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