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São Paulo marries its first gay couple
Mario Domingos Grego, 46, and Gledson Perrone Cordeiro, 32, became the first homosexual couple, not already in a civil union, to be married in Brazil's largest city
SãoPaulo celebrated yesterday its first gay marriage without judicial intervention.
Mario Domingos Grego and Gledson Perrone Cordeiro exchanged vows in one of the SãoPaulo's notary offices, wearing t-shirts imprinted with their photographs and a message calling for marriage equality.
This marks the first time a same-sex couple registered as married in the city without having to be registered first as a civil union.
On 5 May 2011, Brazil's Supreme Federal Court granted same-sex couples in stable partnerships the same rights as straight couples, and on 27 June 2011, a judge in SãoPaulo converted for the first time a same-sex civil union into a same-sex marriage.
From that point, a resolution was passed to permit other same-sex civil unions be transferred to marriage status.
'It was exciting,' said Grego at his marriage ceremony.
'We finally conquered a right that we were trying to achieve years ago'.
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What happens is that in Brazil the supreme court has recognized, last year, that gay couples have civil unions (or stable unions as we call here) and the constitution says that every couple witch lives a stable union has the right to convert this into a marriage. But says nothing about gay stable union, because it's from 1988. So, some jugdes accept this convertion and some don't. As time goes by, it's becoming more frequent that they accept, and more couples are getting married. But there's no legislation for marriage equality yet, and that's why deputy Jean Wyllys is heading a campaign to approve same sex marriage changing our constitution and guarantee this right to everyone (and don't depend on isolated decisions). There is a website: http://casamentociviligualitario.com.br/ and a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/casamentoigualitario WE COUNT ON YOUR LIKES! :D
According to the comments on the following article, same-sex marriages can now be performed throughout Brazil the same way opposite sex marriages are performed, that is, without the need to first marry outside Brazil or the need to form a civil union in Brazil and then go to court. And such marriages are recognized nation-wide. If so, Brazil should be added to the list of 11 countries where same-sex marriages are called marriages and are legally valid nation-wide. Is that correct?
http://www.prop8trialtracker.com/qh/san-paulo-celebrates-first-gay-marri...
I don't understand this article. Until now, gays could marry in Brazil only by going to court to have their civil union or foreign marriage recognized as a marriage in Brazil.
Now this story suggests that, all of a sudden. same-sex couples can just marry like anyone without going to court. How did this come about? Was there new legislation or a new court case? Does this apply throughout Brazil or only in one state?
Can anyone read the following article in Portugese, and explain this to us here in English?
http://www.diarioonline.com.br/noticia-208180-para-faz-primeiro-casament...