Brazil had 3,701 gay
marriages in 2013, the 1st year such unions were legal
EFE- latino.foxnews.com, 9/12/2014
Brazil celebrated 3,701 gay weddings in 2013, the first year a judicial
decision authorized same-sex marriage, officials announced Tuesday.
Of all gay marriages last year, 52 percent were between women and 48
percent between men, according to figures of the civil registry published by
the Brazilian Geography and Statistics Institute, or IBGE.
Same-sex marriages were pronounced legal in Brazil in a May 2013 decision
of the National Judiciary Council (CNJ), though gay activists demand that their
rights be confirmed in a law.
Previously, a same-sex couple could only register as a "stable
union," which in terms of its rights were judged equivalent to marriage in
a May 2011 decision of the Supreme Court, which acted in lieu of any existing
legislation on the matter.
In those two years, up to the granting of the right to gay marriage, 1,277
stable unions of same-sex couples were registered, according to official
figures.
The IBGE also said that the total number of same-sex marriages increased by
1.1 percent in the country in 2013 over the previous year to number 1.1
million, while 324,921 divorces were granted, a drop of 4.9 percent.
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