In Colombia most of the changes for LGBT citizens have happened within just the past decade. In 2016, Colombia became the 24th country in the world to allow full marriage equality and in recent years has put in place laws allowing same-sex adoption and anti-discrimination protections. This would appear to be the start of a upbeat story about LGBT life Gay Colombia. But looking and reading more deeply about this country that has only recently escaped fifty years of internecine civil war a mixed picture comes into focus intertwining sad and hopeful news.
With an area more than twice that of France Colombia has the second largest population in South America, after Brazil. Colombia has the third largest Spanish-speaking population in the world after Mexico and Spain. LGBT rights in Colombia have progressed since consensual homosexual activity was decriminalized in 1980. Law reforms in the 1990s equalized the age of consent at 14 for both homosexual and heterosexual sex. On 28 April 2016, the Constitutional Court legalized same-sex marriage.
Name: Colombia
Population: 44660000
Capital: Bogota - Pop. 6780000
Area: 1141748 sq. km/ sq. miles
Language: Spanish
Religion: Roman Catholic
Status of Homosexuality: Legal
Telephone Country Code: 57
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Highest court in Colombia legalises equal marriage, 2016/Apr/01
For Colombia’s Gay Couples, The Struggle For Same-Sex Marriage, Adoption Rights Continues, 2015/Apr/07
Judges allow first same-sex marriages in Colombia, 2013/Oct/01
Gay Marriage Goes to Court in Colombia, 2013/May/27
Mayor creates gay branch for Bogota, Colombia, 2012/Apr/23
Off2Colombia Releases Video of Bogotá Gay Pride…, 2011/Dec/06
Gay Columbia News & Reports 2011, 2011/Apr/07
Gay Colombia News & Reports 2001-10, 2009/Jan/01
