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# Puebla legalises marriage equality
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/puebla-legalises-marriage-equality/
- Published: 2020-11-11T13:55:26.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-11T07:59:54.000Z
- Description: Puebla is the 20th Mexican state to legalise marriage equality after the Honourable Congress of the State of Puebla voted 31 to 5 to decriminalise same-sex unions.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: Election Special, News, Politics, LGBTQ, Marriage equality, Mexico, South America

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**Puebla** is the 20th Mexican state to legalise marriage equality after the Honourable Congress of the State of Puebla voted 31 to 5 to decriminalise same-sex unions. On **Tuesday November 3**, congress members confirmed over a Zoom session, which was livestreamed to around 20,000 on Facebook, that the state would be enforcing marriage equality legislation after the bill is signed by governor **Miguel Barbosa**.

According to Mexican news outlet, [**The Yucatan Times**](https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/11/gay-marriage-is-now-legal-in-the-state-of-puebla/?ref=scenemag.co.uk), the vote was ‘surprising’ as the area, home to 1.5 million, is strongly Catholic and has shown ‘historic resistance’ to LGBTQ+ rights. After Puebla legalises marriage equality, there will be 11 states left in Mexico where same-sex marriage is still criminalised. The first jurisdiction to introduce marriage equality laws was **Mexico City** in 2010, making it the first zone in all of **South America** to allow same-sex marriage.

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As of yet, **Costa Rica** is the only country in the continent to extend full equality to LGBTQ+ couples at the national level, with LGBTQ+ activists in Mexico hoping their country will follow. Despite Puebla’s progression towards marriage equality, the LGBTQ+ community still faces widespread discrimination in Mexico and the country is considered the second deadliest in the world for trans people. An anonymous trans woman living in the country[ said](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/two-trans-women-murdered-in-mexico/) she was ‘terrified’ to go out, adding *“we don’t know what to do anymore because there are so many hate crimes against the trans population.”*