Same-Sex Couple Are First to Marry In Mexico's Yucatan State BuzzFeed
go to original August 9, 2013

Ricardo Arturo Góngora and Javier Alberto Carrillo (Ricardo Arturo Góngora/Twitter)

Ricardo Arturo Góngora and Javier Alberto Carrillo Esquivel were the first to marry in Mexico’s southeastern Yucatan State thanks to a judge’s ruling that found that the language restricting marriage to a “man and a woman” in the state constitution violated the federal constitution’s anti-discrimination provision.

In its July decision, the court applied the same logic that Mexico’s Supreme Court used in December to rule that three same-sex couples in the state of Oaxaca had the right to marry.

Despite these gains, and the Supreme Court’s strong defense of marriage equality, complexity in the country’s legal system means full marriage equality is a ways off. This week, a lesbian couple in the state of Baja California had their marriage application denied by a registrar. Several cases must be brought from each of Mexico’s states before court precedent overturns the laws on the books for everybody.

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