In our fifth episode, Chris Sabatini and Ken Frankel speak to Hunter Carter, partner at Arent Fox LLP and co-founder of the Alliance for Marriage in the Americas (AMAmericas), to discuss marriage equality and LGBTQ rights in Latin America.
An interview with Hunter Carter about the legal fight for marriage equality
Human Rights & Multilateral Organizations
Latin America’s 2018 LGBT year in review
By Javier Corrales /
An AIDS crisis in Venezuela, the first gay pride parade in Guyana, the rise of Evangelical movements, and an Oscar. These are the top ten LGBT issues from the region this past year.
LGBT Rights
Five young Latin Americans leading the LGBTQ+ fight
As a way to honor LGBT Pride Month, which takes place every year in June in remembrance of 1969’s Stonewall riots in Manhattan, NYC, Global Americans compiled a list of five young Latin Americans that are leading the LGBTQ+ cause on the political frontline.
LGBT Rights
From activists to politics
By Victoria Gaytan / VickyGO /
Latin Americans’ activism is a driving force behind the LGBTQ+ community’s biggest milestones in the fight for equal rights. But political representation has fallen short.
Just the Facts
Advances in marriage equality in unlikely places in the Americas
The last Spanish-speaking country to overturn anti-sodomy laws and one of the region’s most religious and socially conservative countries are both on the cusp of allowing same-sex marriage.
LGBT Rights
The 2016 top 10 LGBT stories from Latin America and the Caribbean
By Javier Corrales /
This was the year of “politicized backlash” against LGBT rights and tolerance. And yet, the region continued to make enormous strides in the rights and visibility of the LGBT+ community.
Human Rights & Multilateral Organizations
The other history making moment at the Summit: LGBT rights
By Kirsten Cowal /
While all attention at the Summit of the Americas—where the President was en route—was understandably, if somewhat predictably, drawn to Cuba’s historic presence at the Summit and the anticipated conduct of Venezuela’s President Maduro when he met President Obama, the attention given to LGBT rights was historic as well.
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