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El Salvador parliament rejects constitutional ban on same-sex marriage
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The Salvadoran Parliament has again failed in its attempt to approve a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
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Gay man stabbed to death in Belize, family says it’s a ‘hate crime’
BELIZE CITY, Belize — A gay man was stabbed to death and dumped on the side of a street in Belize City early Sunday morning, and family members are calling it a “hate crime.”
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Mother says gay son tortured, killed in Honduran prison after illegal deportation
LOS ANGELES — The United States illegally deported a gay asylum-seeker to months of torture and death in a Honduran prison, his mother claims in court.
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Costa Rica family court shuts down same-sex marriage loop hole
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A family court in Costa Rico has rejected a request by a same-sex couple to register their relationship as a marriage, effectively shutting down a loophole created when lawmakers voted to amend a law that mistakenly removed language defining marriage as a union only between a man and a woman.
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Costa Rica president signs bill that ‘mistakenly’ approves gay civil unions
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Conservative Costa Rican lawmakers are getting a lesson in the importance of reading the fine print.
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Costa Rica lawmakers mistakenly vote to legalize same-sex unions
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – Lawmakers in Costa Rica have accidentally voted to amend a law that could legalize same-sex civil unions in the Central American country.
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Senate confirms pro-gay U.S. ambassador to El Salvador
The U.S. Senate broke an impasse on Thursday to confirm a U.S. ambassador to El Salvador who had previously been denied the position in part of because of a pro-gay editorial she wrote in one of the country’s newspapers.
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Senate GOP blocks appointment of LGBT ally as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Monday blocked efforts to confirm Mari Carmen Aponte, a Washington D.C.-based attorney, as the permanent ambassador to El Salvador, because, according to one source, Aponte is an LGBT advocate who has previously called for the “elimination of prejudices” against LGBT people.
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Costa Rica high court blocks vote on same-sex civil unions
In another international victory for gay rights advocates, Costa Rica’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a Catholic Church-supported national vote on whether the country should grant same-sex couples the right to civil unions in the Central American country.