Mexican women to wed in first for Latin America focus 03/12/2010

Mexican women to wed in first for Latin America focus 03/12/2010 MEXICO CITY — “We don’t have anything ready apart from what we’re wearing,” said Judith Vazquez, a Mexican who will wed another woman in Mexico City on Thursday in a first for Latin America. After years of activism, Mexicans Lol Kin Castaneda and Judith Vazquez were taken by surprise when the region’s first gay marriage law came into force last week in the Mexican capital. Shortly after they signed their names in the city’s civil register, they learned they would be the first of five couples to pass before a city judge on Thursday..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary20100312com3.html

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