Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has signed a bill into law legalizing same-sex civil unions, the Washington Blade reports:
“The civil union law is a vindication in the struggle for sexual diversity rights,” said Bachelet during the signing ceremony that took place at the Presidential Palace in Santiago, the Chilean capital.
The Blade notes that Bachelet publicly supports marriage rights for gay couples and that her government recently announced it would no longer defend the country's ban on same-sex marriage in court.
#UniónCivil reconoce el cuidado de parejas y familias y nos pone al día con un Chile diverso http://t.co/H4UMZLqtpu pic.twitter.com/1k0zdyD6yX
— Gobierno de Chile (@GobiernodeChile) April 13, 2015
