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# Chile moving to legalise same-sex marriage
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/chile-moving-to-legalise-same-sex-marriage/
- Published: 2020-10-26T11:11:37.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-26T07:33:58.000Z
- Description: The Chilean Senate’s Constitution Commission has approved crucial articles which will allow the country’s government to move forward with a marriage equality bill.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Pride, Chile, LGBTQ, Marriage equality, Same Sex Marriage, South America

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The **Chilean Senate’s Constitution Commission** has approved crucial articles which will allow the country’s government to move forward with a marriage equality bill. The bill was first proposed in 2017 by former president **Michelle Bachelet** but it has been met with delays. Chile’s **Homosexual Integration and Liberation Movement (Movilh)** encouraged the Senate Constitution Commission to focus on the bill once again and now 29 articles needed to pass it have been approved, leaving 27 left to address.

**Mónica Arias**, a lawyer at Movilh, told [**Gay Star News**](https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/chiles-senate-approves-crucial-articles-for-same-sex-marriage-law/?ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“One of the most relevant approved articles is Article One, which recognizes the kinship marital relationship between spouses, whatever their sex, and not just between a man and a woman. With this, without a doubt, we can say that the Constitution Commission said yes to equal marriage.”*

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/venezuela-lgbt.jpg)

LGBTQ+ Chileans already have access to civil unions and [legal protections](https://www.equaldex.com/region/chile?ref=scenemag.co.uk) from discrimination but the country does not yet have full marriage equality. If Chile were to legalise same-sex marriage before **Venezuela**, which is also considering the move, it would become the sixth South American country to have marriage equality after **Argentina**, **Brazil**, **Colombia**, **Ecuador** and **Uruguay**.