Tag: Mexico

In an effort to build equity and inclusion among their population, Mexico City has announced that all public schools will eliminated gender-specific uniforms for students. Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced this week that guidelines on gendered uniforms will change effective immediately. BBC reports that skirt uniforms will no longer be specific to girls and girls will also be allowed to wear trousers. El UniversalSheinbaum announced: Sheinbaum also tweeted:   Itzel Rangel, a teacher...

Jesusa Fidel Ventura Reyes (aka. Chucha), image via Jazz BustamanteJesusa Fidel Ventura Reyes was a 25-year-old trans woman living in Veracruz, an east coast Mexican state. Better known as Chucha, she had just started transitioning, had raven black hair and a love of fashion. Then, one night around May 17 — the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) — Reyes never came home. After 24 hours, her family called the police. Police later discovered her head in a cooler in front...

The restaurant owner took objection to the two men holding hands and refused to serve them - local LGBTI rights group have organized a protest A gay couple in Mexico captured footage of a restaurant owner refusing them service. Rubén Veliz, 29, and Edwin Contreras, 27, had gone to dine at Pozole Y Tacos (#1200-B Coloniza Colinas de San Jerónimo), Monterrey, Nuevo León, at around 5pm on Sunday (28 April). Veliz tells Gay Star News he has visited the establishment several...

A gay Mexican couple who got married in New York City will be the first to see their same-sex union recognised in their home country. Daniel Berezowsky and Jaime Chávez Alor got married on November 26 after winning a legal challenge against the Mexican government. The couple, who first moved to the US in 2016 to pursue their master’s degrees at Columbia University, first applied for a marriage licence in May at the General Consulate of Mexico in New York. Their request...

Three LGBTQ activists have been murdered in Guerrero, Mexico. The bodies of Roberto Vega, Carlos Uriel Lopez and Ruben Estrada were discovered by authorities in the city of Taxo. The Washington Blade reports that the men were out at a nightclub on Sunday, June 17 when they became the target of a group of men demanding money. They refused to pay and were grabbed, thrown in a van and driven away. Local news reports that all three died of gunshot wounds to the...

Is FIFA finally about to get serious on the issue? FIFA has opened disciplinary hearings against Mexico after its fans chanted the anti-gay slur “puto” during the team’s 1-0 win over Germany at the World Cup. Mexico fans also chanted the slur during the World Cup four years ago, and during qualifying matches leading up to the games in Russia. FIFA leveled fines against Mexico in the past for the offensive behavior of its fans, but sanctions have been relatively minimal and...

They were fatally shot Authorities found the bodies of three LGBTI activists shot dead in Mexico on Sunday (17 June). They found Rubén Estrada, Roberto Vega, and Carlos Uriel López in Taxco, a city within the Mexican state of Guerrero. The Washington Blade reports the men were at a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday when ‘a group of men tried to extort money from them’. They refused and the group of men returned, forcibly placing the three activists in a van...

A gay couple was leaving a local gay club in the city of Monterrey, in Mexico last week when they were targeted and beaten by police officers based on their sexuality. Armando Ocampo Zambrano and Sergio Eduardo Bueno were finishing off their night of partying at 5 a.m. as they headed to a nearby restaurant. It was then that two police cars chased them and upon arriving at their location were stopped and removed by force by the cops....

Mexico has rejected a proposal to legalise same-sex marriage across the country. The bill, introduced by President Enrique Penã Nieto, was struck down by a constitutional committee in Mexico’s lower house on Wednesday, with 19 votes against, eight in favour, and one abstention. In a statement on the vote, the lower house committee said the debate over same-sex marriage “is considered to be totally and definitively concluded”. Same-sex marriage is currently legal in several states around Mexico, including the capital Mexico City...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Mexico yesterday to protest against marriage equality. Tens of thousands marched through Mexico City to protest President Enrique Peña Nieto’s proposed constitutional amendment which would establish marriage equality nationwide. Mexico City’s mayor’s office counted 80,000 people at the march, but organisers counted 250,000 people. Currently 10 states in Mexico have marriage equality, including Mexico City, but protestors are fighting against same-sex marriage being rolled out across the entire country. This means that anyone wishing to...

Tens of thousands of people tool to the streets of Mexico this weekend to protest against a proposed same-sex marriage law. The proposal was made by President Enrique Pena Nieto to introduce same-sex marriage in the largely conservative country. Officials estimated that around 11,000 took to the streets of one city, Celaya, to protest against the law. The demonstrations were organised by the National Front for the Family, a group of organisations and religious groups opposed to same-sex marriage. However, they faced opposition...

Lately, more and more public figures come out as gay, no matter if they're an actor or a singer, or a football player. However, being gay in a world that still put labels on people, can be twice as hard for a footballer. Take Cristiano Ronaldo who faces homophobic chants just because some rumors say he's gay. The soccer superstar has recently been called ‘maricón’ – a homophobic slur meaning "faggot" - at a match between Real Madrid and Barcelona. A...