Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America

Promise and Resistance

Contributions by María Gracia Andía, Daniel Bonilla, Margarita Corral, Germán Lodola, Genaro Lozano, Diego Sempol Edited by Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti-Crocker, Shawn Schulenberg

Publication date:

21 December 2012

Length of book:

188 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9780739167038

This book is a follow-up volume to Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas: Policy Innovation for Same-Sex Relationships published by Lexington Books in 2010. It sheds light on regional, national, and individual-level factors that have led to major developments for same-sex relationship equality in Latin America and explores institutional, political, and social barriers for same-sex couples in the region. The first section of the book deals with general aspects of same-sex rights and policies in the Americas; including public opinion regarding same-sex marriage, diffusion of policy innovations for same-sex couples, judicialization of LGBT rights, and the role of the left in support of same-sex rights in Latin America. The second section examines country-cases regarding same-sex policies in Latin America and includes separate chapters on Central America, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Uruguay. Overall, this research is innovative and unique because it covers the understudied policies of same-sex relationships in Latin America, despite its recent major developments, and includes both regional and national level analyses to explain such developments.

Part I: Themes
Chapter 1: Diffusion of Same-Sex Policies in Latin America
Adriana Piatti-Crocker
Chapter 2: The Lavender Tide? LGBT Rights and the Latin American Left Today
Shawn Schulenberg
Chapter 3: Support for Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America
Germán Lodola and Margarita Corral
Chapter 4: Variations in the Judicialization of Same-Sex Marriage Politics in Latin America
Jason Pierceson
Part II: Countries
Chapter 5: Same-Sex Partnership Rights in Central America: The Case of Panama
Shawn Schulenberg
Chapter 6: The Creation of Civil Partnerships in Uruguay
Diego Sempol
Chapter 7: Same-Sex Couples in Colombia: Three Models for their Legal and Political Recognition
Daniel Bonilla
Chapter 8: Legal Mobilization and the Road to Same-Sex Marriage in Argentina
Maria Gracia Andía
Chapter 9: The Battle for Marriage Equality in Mexico, 2001-2011
Genaro Lozano

This volume assembles some of the most innovative authors working on LGBT politics in Latin America. The study of LGBT rights is an exciting new dimension in the study of the quality of democracy that has long been ignored. This volume proves that the study of the politics of sexuality, like the activism on behalf of sexuality rights in Latin America, is here to stay.