- Title: ARGENTINA-GAY PRIDE Thousands of people turn out for gay pride parade
- Date: 16th November 2014
- Summary: VARIOUS OF THOUSANDS OF GAY PRIDE PARTICIPANTS DURING PARADE PARTICIPANTS ON A VEHICLE GOING DOWN THE STREET SURROUNDED BY MARCHERS GAY PRIDE PARADE GOING ON WITH OBELISK IN THE BACKGROUND
- Embargoed: 1st December 2014 12:00
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- Location: Argentina
- Country: Argentina
- Topics: General
- Reuters ID: LVAD2DJ6YXMNOCUDEM20KM9DK0Y1
- Story Text: Thousands of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexuals (LGBT) march through the streets of Buenos Aires on Saturday (November 15) to celebrate the twenty second year of Gay Pride.
Argentina is a leader on gay, lesbian and transsexual rights in Latin America becoming the first Latin American country to allow same-sex civil unions in 2002 and the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriages in 2010.
"The important thing is that today Argentina is a country that has really dealt with the subject of diversity, of plurality, of inclusion as a policy of the state and today what we are seeing in front of us is a march organized by social organizations," said Pedro Mouratian, Director of 'INADI' the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism.
"What the state is doing is accompanying civil society."
Only a small number of countries permit same-sex marriage, including the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Canada. In the United States, homosexual couples can marry in fourteen states and in the District of Colombia.
Same-sex couples in Mexico City have won the same rights as heterosexuals to marry and adopt children, under a law passed by city legislators. Uruguay allows same-sex couples to adopt children but not to marry.
Argentina's cosmopolitan capital, Buenos Aires, is known as a "gay friendly" tourist destination.
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