Guanajuato Joins Growing List of Mexican States in Allowing Gay Unions The Mexico Gulf Reporter
go to original March 22, 2014

The couple filed an amparo when their marriage application was rejected. (Especial)

The central Mexican state of Guanajuato has joined several other jurisdictions in allowing same sex marriage.

An unidentified female couple wed this week in the city of León, where officials registered the marriage after a federal court ordered them to do so. The couple's application for a civil license had originally been denied, prompting them to seek legal recourse.

Same sex marriage has been lawful by statute in the Federal District (Mexico City) since 2010. In 2012 officials in Quintana Roo announced that gay marriage would be recognized on a de facto basis. Last year Yucatán authorized same sex unions, but only after the state lost a federal court battle on the issue and decided not to appeal. In July a state judge said "Yucatecans are not ready for gay marriage," provoking much controversy.

In Michoacán two women married on Mar. 13, after winning a similar lawsuit in a federal court. It was the first officially recognized same sex union in the state's history.

In 2013 both Jalisco and its next door neighbor, Colima, said that same sex unions would be afforded legal recognition but would not be called marriages. The constitutionality of that restriction remains undecided, as do legislative limitations on the right of gay couples to exercise other rights enjoyed by persons in heterosexual unions, such as adoption. Litigation continues in Jalisco.

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