Same-sex Marriage

In December 2021, Chile became the eighth Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage. The law passed by significant majorities in both houses of the National Congress, a notable event in one of the more conservative South American nations. In September 2021, Switzerland approved same-sex marriage in a national referendum. In every region of the world, the prospect of revising traditional definitions of marriage has sparked highly contentious and emotional debates, making it one of the signal social controversies of the early twenty-first century. While LGBTQ+ activists and their supporters celebrate same-sex marriage legalization as significant progress, social and religious conservatives characterize it as a threat to society. The LGBTQ+ community includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and...