I don’t know about you, but I’m still basking in the glow of Thursday’s marriage equality victory in Argentina.  The icing on the cake for me was to hear President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner strongly and directly describe the history of civil marriage in Argentina, and repudiate the dangerous crusade-like language so often employed when [...]

Love will always find a way.  In November, Administrative Judge Gabriela Seijas ordered the Buenos Aires civil registry to allow Jose Maria Di Bello and Alex Freyre to get a marriage license, saying “the law should treat everybody with the same respect, regardless of their singularities, without the need to understanding and regulating them.”  That [...]

Two weeks ago a local judge ruled that Alex Freyre and Jose Maria Di Bello could get a marriage license, but yesterday a higher-level judge put the brakes on the men’s wedding.  Freyre and Di Bello first met at an AIDS awareness event and wanted to commemorate that anniversary by marrying today, World AIDS Day. [...]

¡Felicitaciones Argentina! Judge Gabriela Seijas ordered the civil registry to make official the marriage of Alejandro Freyre, 39, and Jose Maria Di Bello, 41, who had been denied their request because they were both men. It could increase pressure for lawmakers to take up a stalled gay marriage bill in Congress. “We are very happy, [...]