by Rex Wockner
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Some 2,700 same-sex couples have tied the knot in Argentina since same-sex marriage became legal a year ago.
According to the Argentina LGBT Federation, that amounts to about 1 percent of the nation's gay/lesbian population.
Male couples have outnumbered female couples by about 20 percent.
"The national dimension of the marriages speaks also of the profound reparation that this law has brought for a historically excluded and discriminated-against group," said the federation's president, Esteban Paulon. "Our families today have the same rights, and we are exercising them."
Meanwhile, a same-sex-marriage bill is set for consideration in the parliament of next-door Uruguay, the South American nation that, in many ways, is most similar to Argentina.
