The Associated Foreign Press reports that the legislature of Mexico City, Mexico has approved gay marriage, the first such law to ever pass in a Latin American country. A spokesperson for the measure’s sponsor, assemblyman Davi Razu, said that the bill was approved by 39 votes in favour and 20 against, with 5 abstentions. The spokesperson Oscar Oliver, added that the Mexico City legislators defeated an opposition amendment to the gay marriage measure that would have prevented same sex couples from adopting. The law takes effect in February. Antonio Medina, an activist, said “we’ve got to celebrate. It’s a social and cultural breakthrough that acknowledges a historic debt owed the gay community,” adding “let’s hope the conservatives won’t manage to reverse it by taking if before the Supreme Court of Justice.”
Martha Stewart Weddings Winter 15 Anniversary issue celebrates the magazine’s first same sex marriage, capturing the wedding of Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper and Andrew Shulman, which took place June 14th, 2009, in Litchfield, Connecticut.
The Irish Independent is reporting that Colin Farrell is flying from Los Angeles, California to Dublin this weekend to celebrate his brother Eamon and his husband Steve Mannion, the couple having marrying in Canada early this year.
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