Colombia witnesses first gay marriage
A gay couple from Bogota on Wednesday was the first in Colombia to get legally married despite vociferous opposition from the Catholic Church and conservative politicians.
A gay couple from Bogota on Wednesday was the first in Colombia to get legally married despite vociferous opposition from the Catholic Church and conservative politicians.
Several gay couples have already made the first requests for same sex marriages across Colombia, after a 2011 ruling by the Constitutional Court came into effect on Thursday.
Gay rights organization Colombia Diversa on Wednesday sent out a document with which gay couples can request to be married after Friday when a Constitutional Court deadline ordering Congress to…
While some Colombian senators spoke out that the gay marriage proposal was set to be defeated, Senator Armando Benedetti on Wednesday denied the claims and said congress is “divided.”
The Colombian inspector general’s office expressed on Thursday its opposition to hate crimes and persecution against the gay community and human rights activists. Hilda Myriam Hoyos Castañeda, deputy attorney general…
Gay rights organization “Colombia Diversa” slammed Senator Roberto Gerlein for calling gay sex “dirty, repulsive…excremental and [deserving of] condemnation”. The senator’s comments were “prejudiced, discriminatory…and lead to delegitimizing the lesbian,…
The mayor of Colombia’s capital Bogota, Gustavo Petro, is promoting gender tolerance through this week’s celebration of “Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity.” Starting Thursday Bogota’s District Department of Social Integration…
The Colombian government organized a day of financial education Sunday for the LGBT community in the country’s second-largest city, Medellin. The Interior Ministry and the Agrarian Bank focused on personal finances…
A Medellin photo exhibition featuring transgender models has been opened to an international audience, after the city government created an online portal to view the works. The virtual publication followed…