Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts

Monday, September 5, 2011

Christian Sánchez Venancio: The murder of a gay rights activist

Past July 22, Christian Sánchez Venancio, a member of the PRD an among the party's most profiled pro-gay rights advocates, was murdered in Mexico City, in what appears a possible hate crime and a brutal robbery: His apartment was sacked, and he was found with more than 100 stab wounds in his body, having put up a fight against his attackers.

Here is a most-recommended in-depth article from El Universal of what is truly a heart-wrenching story.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Gay wedding No. 1000 in Mexico City

Mexican national José Carlos Gómez and the Dutch Tjarda Olaf Helias became the 1000th gay couple to legally wed in Mexico City.

I don't know about yours, but neither one of those thousand has made my own marriage feel threatened in the slightest.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Gay unions in Jalisco: Conservative panista's 180 degree turn

Its a most welcome conversion (and not the kind that many ultra-conservative panistas have in mind):

Fernando Guzmán Pérez Peláez, regarded as one of the most ultra-conservative members of the Jalisco government, where he is government secretary, declared that he is in favor of legalizing gay marriage unions.

The same man, less than a year ago, was an active supporter of the ridiculous "gay conversion" movement.
What happened? Welcome news, regardless.

Next in line, the state governor, a drunken falangist who have stated that gays disgust him?