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Fri Sep 4, 2015, 12:45 PM Sep 2015

First same-sex couple marries in Tijuana

TIJUANA — Two Tijuana residents have become the first same-sex couple to be legally married in Baja California’s largest city.

Designer Luis Vargas, 48, and businessman Michael Bujazán, 71, held a news conference Monday to announce their marriage last Wednesday in a private civil ceremony. The pair said officials at Tijuana City Hall initially declined their request for marriage, on the grounds that the Baja California constitution stipulates that marriage can only be between a man and woman. But after 11 months — and judicial orders requiring the civil registry officials to perform the ceremony — the pair prevailed.

The couple said they have been together for nearly 14 years. “I would have married him the moment I met him,” Bujazán said of his spouse, adding that “this is a battle that we could not have won 14 years ago.”

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/aug/31/tijuana-same-sex-couple-gay-marriage-mexico/

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