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		</div><figure id="attachment_198" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-198" style="width: 200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Strange-But-True-4-1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-198" title="Argentina Gay Pride Parade Marchers want transgender rights" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Strange-But-True-4-1.jpg" alt="Argentina Gay Pride Parade" width="200" height="200" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-198" class="wp-caption-text">Argentina Gay Pride Parade</figcaption></figure>
<p>Thousands have marched in Argentina&#8217;s Gay Pride parade, celebrating the country&#8217;s status as the first in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage and vowing to campaign for new rights for transgender people.</p>
<p>More than 500 same-sex couples have been married since President Cristina Fernandez signed the law on July 21, said Esteban Paulo, President of the Argentinian Lesbians, Gay, Bi, and Transgender Federation (LGBT).</p>
<p>The gay marriage law has been a boon for tourism, said Pablo De Luca, founder of the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires.</p>
<p>He estimates that 100,000 more gays and lesbians have visited Argentina as a result of the law.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same kind of increase that happened in South Africa, Canada, and Madrid after they legalised gay marriage,&#8221; Mr De Luca said. &#8220;We want to travel to a country where we don&#8217;t feel like we have to hide our sexuality.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gay and lesbian couples still face problems &#8211; some civil servants have been unwilling to sign their marriage licenses, and the judicial system has been slow to approve adoptions by same-sex couples even though the law now grants them all the rights heterosexual married couples enjoy. Argentina&#8217;s dominant Roman Catholic Church remains opposed.</p>
<p>The theme of the parade was &#8220;let&#8217;s go for more&#8221; &#8211; specifically, a &#8220;gender identity&#8221; law to enable individuals to change their gender on birth certificates and identity cards.</p>
<p>Uruguay passed such a law in 2009, but transgender Argentinians have no such recourse and often have trouble when dealing with the government using documents that no longer match their expressed gender.</p>
<p>The proposed law has been stuck in Argentina&#8217;s senate since 2007, but some are more optimistic now that gay marriage has passed.</p>
<p>&#8220;The gay marriage law helped open the doors to discuss LGBT issues in Argentina,&#8221; said Socialist Deputy Roy Cortina. &#8220;And that&#8217;s going to be beneficial for the gender identity law.&#8221;</p>
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