MEXICO CITY -- A Phoenix-based gay flight attendant for U.S. Airways was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room early Saturday morning in what local police are referring to as a homicide.

Mexico's capital city has reported that 1,000 same-sex marriages have been registered since the city's lawmakers legalized same-sex unions on Dec. 21, 2009, according to a statement released by the Oficina del Registro Civil (Civil Registry).

MEXICO CITY -- More than 700 gay and lesbian couples have married in Mexico City since the capital city enacted the first law in Latin America explicitly allowing same-sex unions, just one year ago.

Mexico's supreme court ruled Tuesday that same-sex marriages in Mexico City must be recognized in all 31 states throughout the country, though the ruling does not mean other states have to allow their own gay weddings.

A law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry took effect Thursday in Mexico City, just one day following the same rights being grated to couples in the U.S. capital. [...]

Mexico City's legislature on Monday legalized gay marriage, the first such approval in Latin America. The bill calls for a change in the definition of marriage in the city's civic [...]

A lawmaker in Mexico's capital has proposed changing the city's civil code to allow gay marriages. Mexico's Roman Catholic Church opposes the proposal. The church defines marriage as a union [...]