Heinous assassination of trans woman shocks Colombia
The brutal murder of a trans woman in Medellin’s metropolitan area shocked authorities and...
Tag: LGBT
Colombia gay adoption ruling ‘historic step’ toward LGBTI equality
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that sexual orientation cannot be applied as a discriminating factor in second-parent adoption cases. The latest in a string of steadily favorable precedents set down by the...
First lesbian couple in Colombia high office comes ‘out of the cabinet’
The Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism talked about her relationship with Minister of...
Colombia LGBTI community celebrates big day for trans rights
Two high court decisions handed down in Bogota Tuesday fell firmly in favor of their transgender...
LGBT rights defenders receive death threats in northern Colombia
The systematic violence against Colombia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT)...
The best (and worst) of Medellin’s gay nightlife
Colombia’s second-biggest city, Medellin, has a thriving gay community. From raging...
Colombia’s transgender community demands end to ‘exclusion and segregation’ of military service requirement
Colombia’s LBGTI community is attempting to eliminate the existing requirement...
Gay rights opponents condemn senator’s ‘marriage equality’ ad
Colombia’s Man and Wife Foundation has openly condemned a reelection campaign ad Senator...
Colombia witnesses first gay marriage
A gay couple from Bogota on Wednesday was the first in Colombia to get legally married despite...
Colombia’s first gay couples apply for marriage
Several gay couples have already made the first requests for same sex marriages across Colombia,...
Gay couples to explicitly request marriage once court deadline on rights expires
Gay rights organization Colombia Diversa on Wednesday sent out a document with which gay couples...
Congress ‘divided’ on gay marriage: Senator
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.” It was reported last week that U...
