An estimated crowd of
more than 50,000 turned out yesterday in Santiago for a march in support of marriage equality in Chile.
The march, organised by by the
Movement of Integration and Sexual Liberation (MOVILH) and the Movement
for Sexual Diversity (Mums), ended at the presidential palace of La
Moneda, with speeches from various activists and political leaders. The
demonstrators urged the government to implement the Gender Identity
Bill, currently being debated in the Senate. They also recalled the
murders of five people in 2014 because of their sexual orientation with a
short ceremony during the march. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet
signed a bill into law recognising civil unions between same-sex couples
on 13 April, while another piece of legislation on gay marriage. The
LGBT movement in Chile has made great advances in recent years, they now
are protected by anti-discrimination laws covering employment, gay
people also can serve openly in the Army, gay men are allowed to donate
blood and lesbian couples can have access to in-vitro fertilisation
treatments.
RELATED: Last month MOVILH was
sued by Opus Dei over their ownership of the URL OpusGay.cl.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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