Tag: Panama

Last week, we shared the news with you that a historic court ruling in Costa Rica could bring gay marriage to 20 different nations. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights decided in favor of marriage equality while ruling over a petition from two years ago. Cosa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis told one source: “The Western Hemisphere is rejoicing over the ruling in a marriage equality case out of Costa Rica. Not only is the ruling binding for the Central American country,...

A supreme court judge in Panama has reportedly ruled against two separate efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in the country. We first reported about gay Panamanian lawyer Iván Chanis Barahona's fight earlier this month. The highest court in the country heard arguments over the last two months and now, Justice Luis Ramón Fábrega has reportedly delivered a draft ruling against two cases that were combined into one: a suit filed by a gay couple who wed in the UK and...

Iván Chanis Barahona is a gay Panamanian lawyer who is working towards getting gay marriage legalized in the country. He is representing a couple that was legally married in the U.K. and is working to get their marriage recognized in Panama. Chanis is also working a second case that is challenging the country on the laws that keep same-sex couples from marrying. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the summer. The two cases have been rolled into one, and the...

It’s been two years since the historic Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage the law of the land across the United States. To mark the occasion, we’re revisiting our favorite marriage stories to remind the world that love is love. In February 2016, National Geographic explorer Kevin McLean, who researches arboreal mammals in neotropical forest canopies, brought his boyfriend, Dan, along for the treetop exploration in the jungles of Panama. Unbeknownst to Dan, Kevin was planning to propose...