- Title: Peruvian LGBTQ couples call for marriage equality in symbolic wedding
- Date: 15th February 2020
- Summary: ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** VARIOUS, GAY COUPLE KISSING (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) NEWLYWED, JUAN CARLOS MARTINEZ, SAYING: "We are here more than anything for a symbolic marriage. It is like a protest to the Peruvian state because it is really time for the country to have civil union marriages which we, as Peruvians, really deserve and have the right to receive."
- Embargoed: 29th February 2020 02:35
- Keywords: LGBT Lima Peru Valentine's day ceremony mass wedding
- Location: LIMA, PERU
- City: LIMA, PERU
- Country: Peru
- Topics: Living / Lifestyle,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA003C0L6C77
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: LGBTQ couples in Peru took part in a symbolic wedding ceremony on Friday (February 14) in an annual event aimed at calling for marriage equality in the conservative South American nation.
Eleven couples exchanged vows at a park in the Miraflores district of Lima in a ceremony to mark Valentine's Day called "Love does not discriminate."
Peru, a majority-Catholic country, is one of just a handful of nations in Latin America to not have at least partially recognized same-sex unions.
Other South American nations, including Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage in recent years.
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