Same-sex marriage has been legalized across Mexico after Tamaulipas became the last state to allow same-sex marriage, the local council said Wednesday.
Northern Border State decision ends her 12-year journey towards marriage equality nationwide, which began in 2010 with the first celebration of same-sex partnerships in the capital, Mexico City .
Five years after his move, a Supreme Court proclamation banning same-sex marriage violated the Constitution, prompting change at the state level.
“The Congress of Tamaulipas approved the reforms to article 132 of the Civil Code for the State, to recognize the right to same-sex marriage,” the institution said in a statement.
“There are no first or second-class people, all people should enjoy this right,” said local congresswoman Nancy Ruiz of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), who promoted the reform.
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Marriage equality was approved in seven other states this year — three of them in the last two weeks.
In five of Mexico’s 32 states where marriage equality was established through court orders or governors’ decrees, it is still pending “legislative harmonization,” said political scientist and LGBTQ activist Genaro Lozano.
“But it is already a reality throughout Mexico. Thanks to all the activists and legislators who have supported it over the years,” Lozano tweeted.
AFP
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