Lesbian couple become Costa Rica's first same-sex spouses.
Larger gatherings and celebrations to mark the start of same-sex marriage in Costa Rica were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
After years of campaigning by the pro-marriage-equality group Sí, Acepto, Carlos Alvarado Quesada was elected president in a “Later that year, Costa Rica’s Supreme Court ruled that the country's same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional, and ordered the legislature to draft a gay marriage law or else it would became automatically legal on May 26, 2020.
Alexandra Quiros Castillo, left, and Daritza Araya Arguedas stand before a lawyer during their wedding in Heredia, Costa Rica, on May 26, 2020.Gia Miranda, director of the Sí Acepto campaign, said, “The only thing that could win with this is Costa Rica and, in general, love,” and she predicted that marriage equality would help decrease discrimination and increase the country's prosperity and attractiveness to tourists.
Costa Rica is the sixth country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, following most recently Ecuador, which allowed it last year. It is also permitted in some parts of Mexico. CORRECTION : An earlier version of this story misstated the name of one of the brides. She is Alexandra Quirós Castillo, not Angela Quirós Castillo.
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