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The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Jordi Díez Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09914-2 - The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Jordi Díez Index More information Index Abortion alud Integral para la Mijer, A.C . See Mexico Integral Women’s Health: Mexico Shielding of States, 166 – 7 Alvear, Soledad, 218 , 221 , 232 , 233 , 234 , Acción Gay . See Gay Action 234n.82 ACIERA. See Christian Alliance of amparos , 132 , 137 , 173 , 194 Evangelical Organizations: AMSAAC, 182 Argentina Anabitarte, Héctor, 76 , 77 Acuerdo de Vida en Pareja . See AVP ANSES, 118 , 118n.15 , 126 . See National Administración Nacional de Seguridad Social Security System: Social . See National social security Argentina system: Argentina Antidiscrimination Aguayo, Sergio, 186 Mexico City AIDS Healthcare and the European LGTB Enactment, 158 Inter-Parliamentary Group, 183 First in Latin America, 93 Albornoz, Laura, 217 Reforms, 156 – 7 Alessandri, Jorge, 64 , 101 Anti-Gay Bill Alessandri Palma, Arturo, 63 Uganda, 20 Alfonsín, Raúl, 80 , 130 , 144 , 267 , 276 Apostolic Nunciature Alianza Cristiana de Iglesias Evangélicas . Mexico See Christian Alliance of declarations homosexuality, 92 Evangelical Organizations: APSI Argentina Revista Alianza Democrática . See Democratic Chile, 103 Alliance Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 29 Aliverti, Eduardo, 141 Arballo, Gustavo, 141 Allamand, Andrés, 227 , 228 , 230 Arendt, Hannah, 44 Allende, María Isabel, 211 Argentina Allende, Salvador, 100 , 210 Judicial System, 131 – 2 Candidacy Political Instability, 49 Popular Front, 64 Positive case, comparison, 4 Election Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Bisexuals 1970, 65 and Transgendered People, 124 Almeyda, Tati, 140 ARI , 138 281 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09914-2 - The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Jordi Díez Index More information 282 Index Article 365 Bovino, Alberto, 141 Chile Bravo, Daniel, 120 Penal Code, 100n.38 , 102 , 104 , 107 , Brazil 197 , 198 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202 Gay Marriage, 254 – 5 Así Brito, Alejandro, 95 , 155n.4 , 160 , 171 , Revista 177n.53 , 178 Argentina, 78 Broad Front, 257 , 258n.9 Asociación Mexicana para la Salud Sexual . Büchi, Hernán, 67 See Mexican Association for Sexual Bucio Mujíca, Ricardo, 184 Health Asociación por los Derechos Civiles . See Cálamo, 92 Association for Civil Rights Calderón, Felipe Association for Civil Rights, 124 Supreme Court Challenge, 3 Atala, Karen, 1 , 20 , 233 Calhoun, Cheshire Atala Case, 1 Gay Marriage Augsburger, Silvia, 130 , 134 , 135 As a right, 44 AVC, 229 , 230 , 231 Callado, Rosita, 141 AVP, 227 , 228 , 230 , 235 , 237 , 238 Calles, Plutarco Elías, 56 Aylwin, Patricio, 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , Calvo, Adriana, 141 103 , 107n.49 , 198 , 203 Calvo, Ernesto, 129 Election, 68 Campaign for Women’s Access to Justice, Human Rights, 72 155 , 168 Ayuquelén, 102 Campaña de Acceso a la Justicia para las Mujeres . See Campaign for Women’s Bachelet, Michelle, 214 , 216 , 217 , 219 , Access to Justice: Mexico 220 , 222 , 223 , 224 , 227 , 235 , Carbonell, Miguel, 192 236 , 237 , 238 , 250 , 251 , 253 , 262 , Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc, 59 271 , 274 Cárdenas, Lázaro Election 2013, 236 Ascent to power, 56 Balvanera Raids Cárdenas, Nancy, 85 Argentina, 80 Carloto, Estela, 140 Barrales, Alejandra, 174 Castañeda, Lol Kin, 171 , 172 , 173 , 174 , Barrueto, Víctor, 211 175 , 176 , 177 , 177n.53 , 178 , 179 , Bascuñán, Antonio, 232 183 , 186 , 187 , 191 Batres, Martí, 156 Castro, Claudia, 90n.25 , 127 , 127n.37 , Bazán, Osvaldo, 37 , 138 132 , 277 Belgium, 98n.36 , 241 Catholic Church Bellomo, Roque, 120 Argentina Benhabib, Seyla, 40 Opposition Gay Marriage, 140 Bergoglio Opposition vote Senate, 147 Position Gay Marriage, 147 Pressure Senate, 149 – 50 Berlin, Isaiah Maintenance of family, 35 Freedoms Mexico positive and negative, 42 Opposition Gay Marriage, 183 Bimbi, Bruno, 143 Scandal, 176 Blanco, José Joaquín, 88 Catholic Women for the Right to Decide Blood Donation Mexico, 177 Chile Center for Legal and Social Discrimination, 207 Studies, 116 Böhmer, Martín, 141 Center for the Study of Sexuality, 105 Bonaparte, Laura, 82 Centro de Estudios de la Sexualidad . See Bonifaz, Alejandra, 175 Corporation for AIDS Prevention © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09914-2 - The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Jordi Díez Index More information Index 283 Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales . See Civil Rights Act Center for Legal and Social US, 43 , 240 Studies Civil Solidarity Pact CHA, 80 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 84n.16 , 112 , 114 , Coahuila, 170 115n.8 , 116 , 119 , 119n.17 , 124 , Civil Union Pact. See PUC 127 , 128 , 130 , 133 , 134 , 141 , 149 , Civil Unions 206 , 264 Buenos Aires Legal recognition, 83 – 4 Effects, 123 – 4 Chadwick, Andrés, 218 , 218n.49 , 227 , Enactment, 118 – 23 230 , 231 , 233 , 234 , 235 Mexico City Chamber of Deputies Enactment, 160 – 3 Argentina Civil Unions vs. Gay Marriage Vote on gay marriage, 144 – 5 Argentina, 128 Chile Clarín Authoritarian Enclaves, 68 Editorial position on Gay Marriage, Coup d’Etat 141 , 148 1973, 65 CNI. See National Information Center Demobilization, 71 Coahuila Economic Reform, 66 Civil Unions, 169 – 70 Establishment of consensual politics, 69 Coalición Cívica , 138 Non-case comparison, 4 Coalition for Parties for Democracy. See Political stability Concertación Twentieth century, 62 Código Contravencional . See Referendum, 67 Contravention Code Chile Foundation, 225 Códigos de faltas . See Offence Codes Christian Alliance of Evangelical Colectivo Sol, 92 Organizations Collins, Cath, 72 Argentina, 139 Colombia Christian Democratic Party, Chile, 12 , 13 , Gay Marriage, 255 – 6 72 , 73 , 129n.42 , 200 , 244 Comisión Ciudadana Contra los Crimenes Christian Democrats de Odio por Homofobia . See Chile, 63 Citizens Commission against Cibrián Campoy, Pepé, 149 Homophobic Hate Crimes Cigliutti, César, 112n.1 , 114n.5 , 115n.7 , Comisión Ciudadana de Estudios contra la 115n.8 , 116n.11 , 119 , 119n.16 , Discriminación 121n.22 , 126n.32 , 128 , 133 , 134 , Mexico, 158 134n.54 , 137 Comisión Nacional de Verdad . See Citizens Commission against Homophobic National Truth and Reconciliation Hate Crimes, 155 Commission Citizens Conference of the Americas, 209 Commission of Human Rights Citizens Network in the Support of the Mexico City, 183 Cohabitation Law Common-Law Agreement. See AVC ; AVP Mexico, 161 Communist Party Citizenship Argentina, 50 Differentiated, 35 Chile, 63 Gay Marriage Comunidad Homosexual Argentina . Cheshire Calhoun, 44 See CHA Liberal Democratic, 35 CONAPRED, 159 , 159n.11 . See also Sexual National Anti-Discrimination Conceptualizations, 40 – 1 Council: Mexico Sexual Justice, 41 CONASIDA. See National AIDS Social Democratic, 39 Council © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-09914-2 - The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico Jordi Díez Index More information 284 Index Concertación , 12 , 19 , 21 , 22 , 27 , 31 , 67 , Council of Trent, 32 68 , 68n.5 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 77 , 106 , 108 , Croatia, 241 197 , 199 , 200 , 211 , 213 , 214 , 215 , CUT. See Central Unida de Trabajadores 216 , 218 , 219 , 220 , 221 , 222 , 223 , 224 , 226 , 229 , 230 , 231 , 235 , 236 , Dagnino, Evelina, 47 262 DC, 219 Concertación de Partidos por la de Alonso, Negre, 148 Democracia . See Concertación de Bonafi ni, Hebe, 140 Confederación de Tranajadores de la Dehesa, Rafael, 34 , 168 Argentinos . See Congress of de la Madrid, Miguel, 58 Argentine Workers de la Rúa, Fernando, 125 Confederación General del Trabajo . See de la Torre, María Luisa, 168 General Labor Confederation Defense of Marriage Act. See Confederación Nacional de Iglesias DOMA Cristianas . See Confederation of del Bosque Dávila, Horacio, 170 Christian Evangelical Churches: Delegative democracy, 129 Mexico Democracia de los acuerdos , 70 , 213 Confederation of Christian Evangelical Democracia Igualitaria y Participativa . Churches See Egalitarian and Participatory Mexico, 190 Democracy: Argentina Conferencia Ciudadana de las Americas . Democracy and Sexuality Network See Citizens Conference of the Mexico, 93 , 177 Americas Democratic Alliance, 67 Congress of Argentine Workers, 141 Democratic Union, 67 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones DEMYSEX. See Democracy and Sexuality Científi cas y Técnicas . See National Network Council for Scientifi c Denmark, 17 and Technical Research di Bello, José María, 2 , 135 , 136 Conspiracy of consensus. See Wilde, di Pollina, Eduardo, 127 , 130 Alexander Di Tullio, Juliana, 134 , 138 , 140 , 143 Constitutional Court Díaz, Arturo, 92 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 96n.32 , 97 , Colombia, 255 97n.33 , 98 , 157n.5 , 158 , Contardo, Óscar, 99 , 100 160 , 163n.16 , 167n.26 , Conti, Diana, 127 173n.44 , 178 , 178n.54 , Contravention Code 195n.84 , 262 , 267 Buenos Aires, 116 Dictatorship Contreras, Maricela, 187 Argentina Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres 1976–1982, 53 Lesbianas . See National Coordination Diego Portales University, 211 , 212 , 220 , Group of Lesbian Women 225 Cordobazo , 52 DINA. See Directorate of National Corporación de Prevención de SIDA . See Intelligence Corporation for AIDS Prevention Directorate of National Intelligence, 66 Corporación Humanas . See Humans Diversa, 157 , 157n.7 , 160 , 278 Corporation: Chile Diverse Colombia , 255 , 256 Corporation for AIDS Prevention División de Organizaciones Sociales
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