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The bill found support from over 600 non-governmental organizations, including the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) and Amnesty International. On 21 December 2009, Mexico City became the first Latin American jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage. The law became effective on 4 March 2010. [12]
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), Amnesty International, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and over 600 non-governmental organizations expressed support for the legalization of same-sex marriage in Mexico City. [9]
Mexico City Pride is an annual LGBT pride event held in Mexico City, Mexico. The event, which is the largest Pride event in the country, [1] has been held annually since 1979. Since Mexico City's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010, a mass wedding ceremony has been held for same-sex couples prior to the start of the event's pride parade.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Oaxaca since 5 October 2019. A landmark 2012 Supreme Court order for Oaxaca established the right to marriage by amparo across Mexico. In August 2019, the Congress of Oaxaca passed legislation amending various articles of the Civil Code to recognise same-sex marriages. The law went into force on 5 October.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights in Mexico expanded in the 21st century, keeping with worldwide legal trends.The intellectual influence of the French Revolution and the brief French occupation of Mexico (1862–67) resulted in the adoption of the Napoleonic Code, which decriminalized same-sex sexual acts in 1871. [1]
Their wedding was the first same-sex marriage in the state of Veracruz. [7] On 29 January 2015, a local LGBT group, Comunidad Jarochos, announced that a lesbian couple had won an amparo and would marry on 4 April 2015. [8]
Same-sex marriage has been legal in the State of Mexico since 2 November 2022. On 11 October 2022, the Congress of the State of Mexico voted 50–16 with seven abstentions to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. [1][2] It was published on 1 November 2022, and took effect the next day. [3] The State of Mexico was the third-to-last state in Mexico to provide for same-sex marriage.
Quintana Roo was the first Mexican state, and the second jurisdiction in Mexico after Mexico City, to legalize same-sex marriage. Further legislation and rulings from the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation that same-sex marriage bans violate the Constitution of Mexico have expanded same-sex marriage to every state.