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Venezuelan same-sex couples still wait for right to marry

Same-sex couple Ana Margarita Rojas, left, and Elena Hernáiz, walk hand in hand in a mall in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. “We are in a country where being a citizen is already an uphill struggle, being recognized as a minority citizen is a higher uphill struggle,” said the 59-year-old Rojas. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) FILE - Tamara Adrian, Venezuela’s first transgender lawmaker, attends a National Assembly session in Caracas, Jan. 14, 2016. Adrian said some of the opportunities to advance progressive causes ended when many young professionals left the country because of the crisis. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File) LGBTQ activist Tristan Key posts a video on TikTok, filmed in his bedroom in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The 19-year-old transgender man is hopeful that Venezuelan lawmakers will make same-sex marriage legal within the next 10 years. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) LGBTQ activist Tristan Key posts a video on TikTok he filmed in his bedroom in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. Key acknowledges that people in Venezuela have died of hunger and lack of medical supplies during the crisis but noted that “the hatred that exists in this country” has also been deadly. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Activist Tristan Key records a video in his bedroom in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. Key uses his TikTok videos to advocate for the rights of the LGBTQ community, including same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) LGBTQ activist Tristan Key, smiles while sitting in his bedroom in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. Key said the demand for the approval of same-sex marriage in Venezuela is not only about people’s interest in legalizing their union on paper but also about protections against discrimination. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Elena Hernáiz, left, and Ana Margarita Rojas, smile during an interview in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Rojas and Hernáiz, who have shared their lives for more than three decades and raised a son together, are recognized by their neighbors as a couple, never questioning them when they refer to each other as “mi esposa” - my wife. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
Venezuelan same-sex couples still wait for right to marry