Same-sex marriage in Argentina Same-sex marriage in Argentina Same-sex marriage in Argentina has been legal since July 22, 2010. Argentina was the first country in Latin America, the second in the Americas, and the second in the Southern Hemisphere to allow same-sex marriage nationwide. It was the tenth country worldwide to allow same-sex marriage. In the first decade of the 21st century, civil unions ( or "unión convivencial") were made legal in four jurisdictions in Argentina: the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (2002), the province of Río Negro (2003), the city of Villa Carlos Paz (2007), and the city of Río Cuarto (2009). Civil
Same-sex marriage in Puebla one woman, and Article 294, which stated that marriage existed solely for the purpose of procreation, were unconstitutional. In late January 2018, after multiple attempts from Congress to delay the ruling of the Supreme Court, the Civil Registry announced that it would abide by the ruling, bypassing the Congress' authority, which was opposed to the ruling and had repeatedly tried to stop it from being enforced. The Civil Registry's announcement also followed a ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which states that countries signatory to the American Convention on Human Rights must legalise same-sex marriage. Mexico has ratified