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Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…previously only had marriage equality in some states, followed in 2013. In Mexico, Mexico City, Quintana Roo, and Colima all grant marriages to same-sex couples. More importantly, each Mexican state is required to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Although marriage equality technically is not the law of the land in Colombia, judges are able to use a 2011 ruling to marry same-sex couples. While some other Latin America states…

Why Serra Should Not Be a Saint

By Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

…them to wealthy settler colonists who pursued their own unjust logics. And Mexico controlled California for only a short while before U.S. imperial aggression severed Alta California from Mexico, and finding gold in its mountains, U.S. colonists invaded the land and rapidly transformed Alta California into a state, extending and expediting the population decline and attempted cultural genocide of native peoples. It is precisely the place of Califo…

All the Belly-‘eich’-ing

By Sarah Posner

…’s refusal to serve a lesbian couple at their commitment ceremony. The New Mexico Supreme Court held that the state human rights law, which prohibits discrimination based on, among other things, sexual orientation in public accommodations, did not violate the photographer’s Free Speech or Free Exercise rights, nor did it violate the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The photographers sought review from the United States Supreme Court on o…

Tutu’s Daughter Marries Woman & Loses Anglican Priest License; Romanian Anti-Marriage Activists Get 3 Million Signatures; Australian State Apologizes For Harmful Sodomy Laws; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…g reporting and analysis of the complex and shifting marriage landscape in Mexico. The Transgender Law Center and the Cornell Law School LGBT Clinic released “Report on Human Rights Conditions of Transgender Women in Mexico,” which documents “pervasive discrimination, hatred, violence, police abuse, rape, torture, and murder.” Kyrgyzstan: Anti-LGBT bill delayed, but its backers still pushing Legislation that mirrors Russia’s anti-gay “propaganda”…

Founder of Liberal Mosque in Germany Under Guard After Death Threats; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…pain and the National Organization for Marriage in the U.S. has made it to Mexico. Taking a cue from NOM President Brian Brown’s description of the bus in the U.S. as the “free speech bus,” the National Front for the Family is calling their version the “freedom bus.” GayStarNews reports that in Guadalajara LGBT activists wrapped the bus in a rainbow flag: Jaime Cobián, a protestor, said ‘these right-wing groups want to remove the rights’ of the mo…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…her power. Mexico: Lawmakers, ambassadors, and a governor celebrate Pride Mexico City’s pride march on Saturday was attended by some 35,000 people, including several federal lawmakers and the ambassadors from the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In Jalisco earlier this month, Gov. Aristotle Sandoval participated in Guadalajara’s Pride celebration and wrote about it on his Facebook page: Today, along with thousands of families, I participated…

Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ening the lawyers. Mexico: More thn 8,000 same-sex couples have married in Mexico City since 2010 La Jornada reported that since 2010 more than 8,000 same-sex couples have been married in Mexico City, home to an estimated 28 percent of the country’s LGBT population. Activists are preparing for a mass wedding at the Zócalo, the city’s massive public square, on March 25. Guatemala: Religious Right groups push anti-trans message on both sides of Atla…

Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…changes recognizing marriage equality, which is currently spreading across Mexico through a series of court rulings. Proceso reports this week that the National Front for the Family has announced anti-marriage-equality marches in 60 cities. A spokesman for the group said Mexico needs to protect the “natural family” from the government’s efforts to impose “gender ideology.” Serbia: Activists plan protest at Turkey’s embassy Activists in Serbia are…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…Senate and is signed by the president, it will become law in January 2016. Mexico: Congress calls on states to get in line with marriage equality Mexico’s federal Congress, following up on a recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Justice, called on state legislatures to reform their civil and family law to ensure recognition of the right of same-sex couples to get married. On July 10, 20 same-sex couples were married on the beach in Acapulco. Th…

Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…, a left-wing politician famous for his social liberalism, signed into law Mexico City’s same-sex marriage ordinance, he tuned a deaf ear to the Catholic Church’s threat of excommunication. That would have been unthinkable only a few years prior. Former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, today hailed as a gay rights heroine for her fierce advocacy of marriage equality, all but welcomed the opposition to same-sex marriage by then C…