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rfmcdonaldVia Towleroad I came across Dudley Althaus' Global Post article arguing that the progress of gay rights in Mexico is influencing Latin America more generally.
I'm hesitant about this argument, not least since South American countries--notably but not only Argentina and Uruguay--have seen equal or even greater shifts towards equality than Mexico, and seem from my very limited knowledge to have done so independently of Mexico. That said, Althaus does seem to have gotten the general liberalization of Mexican society done. (Noel Maurer?)
I'm hesitant about this argument, not least since South American countries--notably but not only Argentina and Uruguay--have seen equal or even greater shifts towards equality than Mexico, and seem from my very limited knowledge to have done so independently of Mexico. That said, Althaus does seem to have gotten the general liberalization of Mexican society done. (Noel Maurer?)
In Mexico’s modernizing capital, the word these days seems to be “keep calm, and marry on,” a nonchalance toward gay marriage that’s slowly catching on across Latin America.
Pushing that message, Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera stood witness recently to the mass wedding of 58 lesbian and gay couples, who said their vows in unison.
"This is one more event in ... the city of freedoms,” Mancera, who presided over a similar ceremony in July, told the 74 women and 42 men taking the plunge. Mexico's capital is “a city that is concerned about and working on moving ahead,” he said.
The latest gay nuptials took place at a museum just blocks from Mexico City’s central plaza — and from the cathedral pulpit of Cardinal Norberto Rivera, who has railed against gay unions as “perverse” affronts to Mexican families and the “divine project.”
But this city’s left-leaning government has been poking the eyes of Catholic leaders and other cultural conservatives for more than a decade now. Promoting diversity — sexual, political, religious — is official policy here. The Mexican capital in many ways has set the pace of social change across Mexico and the region.
