Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina – A Reflection on the Institution of Marriage |
| By
Rosa M. Posa Guinea
Project Consultant, LAC Institute Project
Asunción
Since the legalization of same-sex marriage in Argentina, two different debates have emerged: one is interesting and it is unclear whether the other is a debate at all.
The interesting debate is the question of marriage as an institution, as a way of life; even further, it is the question of partnership itself as the only way of experiencing love or sexual relations. With respect to marriage itself, there are many things to discuss. For centuries, has it not been the most brutal, silent, and everyday form of oppression for thousands of women—one might even say, their enslavement? Paraguay’s first feminist lawyer, Serafina Dávalos – who, incidentally, never married and lived with her “inseparable companion” – already made this argument in 1907.1 I will be told, of course, that she spoke with regards to heterosexual marriage – but can we really re-signify the institution?
|
|
|
Lambda Legal Celebrates American Bar Association Marriage Equality Resolution |
| "With today's resolution, the ABA has added its informed and nationally influential voice to a growing chorus calling for an end to ignorance and discrimination."
Jennifer C. Pizer
National Marriage Project Director
"We commend the members of the ABA House of Delegates for a timely, important vote."
|
|
Federal Court Declares California's Proposition 8 Unconstitutional |
| Trial judge rules that ban on marriage equality violates guarantees of equal protection, due process.
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – today praised the historic decision of Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, which declared that the amendment to the California Constitution barring marriage for same-sex couples, adopted in November 2008 as Proposition 8, violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process.
|
|
Lambda Legal and ACLU File Lawsuit Against Hawai`i Governor Seeking Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples |
| "The political process has failed the thousands of families who need the protections civil unions would have provided."
Honolulu, HI— Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Hawai‘i Foundation today filed suit against the State of Hawai`i three weeks after Governor Linda Lingle's veto of House Bill 444, a bill that would have allowed unmarried couples to enter into civil unions with comprehensive state law rights and responsibilities. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six same-sex couples, five from O`ahu and one from Hawai`i Island.
|
|
HRC Message to Target and Best Buy: Make it Right! |
| Nation’s Largest LGBT Rights Organization Condemns Political Contributions Supporting Anti-Equality Candidate
Washington– The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, today condemned donations by Target and Best Buy to a political committee supporting the election of an anti-equality candidate and asked them to make it right by contributing to groups that support pro-equality candidates.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Page 1 of 11 |
