I am going to talk briefly about the most significant legal advance in the area of gay and lesbian rights in Spain: the inaccurately named ‘homosexual marriage law’.  Although popularly called this, in reality there is no marriage law for homosexuals, and there certainly isn’t a law for same-sex partners, as I have seen written somewhere else. The actual name for this law is the ‘Modification of the Civil Code regarding Marriage’ and what it does is simply modify the Civil Code, by extending the existing marriage laws to include same-sex partners, so that in Spain there is absolutely no legal distinction between gay, lesbian and heterosexual citizens. This means the same laws, the same institutions, and the same treatment for everyone by the state. Leer más →