After years of fighting for the change, Sonora’s LGBT community is celebrating the official publication of a marriage equality reform.
Gone from the state’s family code are explicit definitions of marriage as the union of a man and woman, or affirmations of the legal impossibility of same-sex marriages.
With the Thursday publicationin the state’s official bulletin, marriage is now simply defined as the “legitimate union of two people, with the purpose of establishing a family, and mutual respect and protection."
“A published bulletin may seem like a small thing, but symbolically it’s very important,” said Elsa Cornejo, general coordinator for Diverciudad, one of a number of Sonoran groups that fought for the reform approved by the state congress in September, and now made official.
Before the change, same-sex couples could marry, but only after taking the matter to court. Now they can do it like any other couple.
