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Mean Girls star Jonathan Bennett marries TV host Jaymes Vaughan in “perfect” ceremony

Jonathan Bennett married his boyfriend Jaymes Vaughan in a stunning ceremony at the Unico Riviera Maya Hotel in Mexico. The two tied the knot on 19 March after getting engaged in November 2020. They married in front of 104 family and friends at an inclusive destination, People reported. “When you’re part of the LGBTQ+ fam, not everything in the wedding space is for you yet,” Jaymes told the outlet. “The whole purpose of our wedding is to come together and join the two of us together, join our families together…

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Mexico issues first birth certificate with a non-binary gender marker after historic court ruling

In a massive step for LGBTQ+ rights, Mexico handed out its first birth certificate with a non-binary gender marker. The historic moment follows a lengthy legal battle between activist Fausto Martínez and the National Electoral Institute (INE). Back in September 2021, the 26-year-old requested to put “NB” as their sex on official documents. After the INE denied Martínez’s request, the law student partnered up with Amicus’ executive director Juan Pablo Delgado to fight the decision. According to their website, the organisation is dedicated to the “defence and promotion” of Mexico’s…

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Man and woman arrested for “vicious” killing of lesbian couple in Mexico

Two people have been arrested by Chihuahua state investigators in relation to the brutal torture and killing of a lesbian couple. According to El Plaso Times, the attorney general’s office confirmed on 24 January that Jaqueline Isela C.R, aged 25, and David R., aged 24, were arrested on charges of aggravated femicide. Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road on 16 January. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered…

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Lesbian couple found tortured, shot and dismembered in trash bags in Ciudad Juárez

Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered on 16 January the day after seeing family whom they had travelled to visit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Diario reported. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Chihuahua Committee for Sexual Diversity director Karen Arvizo confirmed that the pair were parents to…

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Mexican state bans conversion therapy and legalises same-sex marriage in historic move

Same-sex marriage has been legalised and conversion therapy banned in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It becomes the 22nd state in the country to allow same-sex weddings, with Sinaloa doing so in June and Baja California in August. Yucatán’s Congress voted 20 to five to pass the measure allowing gay couples to marry, which altered Article 94 of the state’s constitution to define marriage as a “free and voluntary legal union” between two people. Despite the fact that Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled state-level prohibitions against same-sex marriage in 2015, LGBTQ+…

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