Are fulfilled fifteen years after the approval of homosexual marriage in A Coruña, just in the week of LGTBI + pride. Spain became the fourth country in the world to allow gay weddings after a strong public debate.
José Luís Quintela, former head of Intermón Oxfam and one of those responsible for social services with Carlos Negreira as mayor, starred, with his partner Marcos, in the first wedding according to this law in the city of A Coruña. A civil contract, the feelings were already his, he says. The exporter of the PSOE married them Sea Barcón.
José Luís Quintela underlines the right of all people to live as they feel and the commitment of President Rodríguez Zapatero with this initiative. The amendment added a few words to the civil code without changing anything else in the legal corpus.
He recalled that moment in Hoy por hoy A Coruña: “The official mayoral office, between wedding and wedding, only with the presence of two officials Mar Barcón and two witnesses we got married, all I wanted was for the state to endorse our civil contract, otherwise I’m not much of these things. “
Since WINGS Coruña they warn that it is not the same to have legal equality than real equality. They continue to fight for the rights of trans people, there is still bullying in schools with girls and boys of a homosexual condition and many difficulties for older people to live a sexual identity that deviates from the general norm.
The Government celebrates 15 years of the Law of homosexual marriage that “broke the prejudices of some”
“15 years ago Spain became one of the first countries in the world to legalize equal marriage, it was then that our country took a giant step forward regulating a right that, although some predicted that it would break society, the only thing that produced The rupture was due to the prejudices that some members of society harbored, “the Minister of Finance and Government spokesperson stressed in the press conference after the Council of Ministers. Maria Jesus Montero.
The minister has assured that Spain is “moving forward to unite” to become “more respectful, more tolerant and freer” and has warned that “those who are frontally opposed at first to the conquest of these new rights, after the years they end up realizing that Spanish society is always ahead of their prejudices “.
For the government spokeswoman, “there are struggles that can never lower their guard,” such as the struggle that groups of people who choose to have a same-sex partner have to have “respect, understanding and tolerance” of the society.
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