Via the
Tico Times:
Just over a week since taking office,
President Luis Guillermo Solís made history Friday morning when he
became the first Costa Rican leader to raise the rainbow flag of the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement on even mast with the
Costa Rican red-white-and-blue tricolor on the lawn of the Casa
Presidencial. Vice President Ana Helena Chacón hoisted the flag in honor
of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 17.
“This is the house of all Costa Ricans. When we say all Costa Ricans we
mean all, without exclusion, without violence, without harassment in
absolute respect for the rights of each one,” Solís told a crowd of LGBT
leaders and advocates during his brief comments on the lawn.
LGBT Costa Ricans enjoy protections in employment, public
accommodations, and other areas, but same-sex marriage, gay adoption,
and military service
remain banned. Perhaps that will change soon.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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