Brazilia Brazil, 25 October 2011 - On Tuesday, Brazil's Supreme Appeals Court overturned the rulings of two lower courts and held that two women can be legally married.

A recent socialist motion to open marriage to homosexual couples has been rejected in June, 14^th by the French Assembly with 293 opposed votes (Right Wing and Center Party) and 222 in favour (Left Wing and Green Party). This decision has faced strong reactions from NGOs and also comments from across the French political landscape.

 

The Chief US District Judge Vaughn Walker, announced, in the trial on the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban, that he has reached his decision on whether to uphold or overturn the voter-approved ban known as Proposition 8. His verdict comes in response to a lawsuit brought by two same-sex couples and the city of San Francisco seeking to invalidate the law as an unlawful infringement of gay and lesbians civil rights.

A Chilean senator (Fulvio Rossi), the head of Chile's Socialist party, is planning to present a proposal to legalize gay marriage in Chile.

Lately the neighboring Argentina approved a bill that legalizes gay marriage and gay adoptions. Chilean politicians are already considering the Acuerdo de Vida en Comun (AVC), which would act as a civil union available to both heterosexual and homosexual couples. In fact Sebastian Pinera, Chile's first conservative president in two decades, has voted to guarantee more rights to same-sex couples, but opposes gay marriage.