July 27, 2011
Colombian Court Rules in Favour of Marriage Equality

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the country must extend marriage rights to same-sex couple within 2 years.

“The Colombian Congress must create an equivalent of marriage for gay couples by June 20, 2013, or else couples will automatically gain the right to go to any judge or notary public to formalize their union, according to the ruling. The country already offers civil unions, which grant almost all marriage rights.”

June 30, 2011
Brazil May Have Legalized Same-sex Marriage by Accident

Apparently the recent allowing of civil unions in Brazil may have accidentally opened a loophole that allows for same-sex marriage as according to Brazilian law people in these unions (originally for opposite-sex couples) can upgrade their union to marriage. A judge in the Sao Paulo state agreed that same-sex couple could also upgrade their unions.

December 1, 2009
Latin America's First Gay Marriage Blocked!

(via werkit)