Mexico’s most populous state approves same-sex marriage By Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The congress of Mexico’s most populous state, State of Mexico, on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to legally acknowledge same-sex marriage, changing into the twenty ninth of Mexico’s 32 states to take action.

“Equal marriage is a public establishment, whereby two individuals freely resolve to share a life,” the state’s legislative physique stated in a tweet, after lawmakers handed the invoice with 50 votes in favor and 16 towards.

State of Mexico, which borders the capital, is the nation’s most populous state and one in every of its most gender-violent. It counts near 17 million inhabitants – almost 5 occasions the inhabitants of Uruguay.

The approval follows latest legalizations by the states of Sonora and Sinaloa.

Mexico Metropolis grew to become the primary space of the nation to legalize same-sex marriage in 2009, and the next 12 months Argentina grew to become the primary nation in Latin America to legalize it nationwide.

Similar-sex marriage stays unlawful or not acknowledged in Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, most of Central America and swathes of the Caribbean, in line with international LGBT rights tracker Equaldex.

The state’s legislative physique tweeted an announcement from lawmaker Juana Bonilla Jaime that credited the wrestle of LGBT+ activists in getting the invoice to parliament: “Every legislature has its historical past and at the moment we’re a part of that historical past.”