Costa Rica LGBT rights

IRCA Casabierta, based in Costa Rica, supports refugees who are members of the LGBTQ community.

Tens of thousands of people participated in Marcha de la Diversidad on Sunday afternoon throughout San José.

San José — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets Sunday afternoon to celebrate Costa Rica’s 10th annual Pride Parade. Among the participants...

President Carlos Alvarado said via his Twitter that "we are building a more just and egalitarian Costa Rica for all people."

The decision came in response to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruling in January of this year.

The Tico Times spoke with Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Advocacy Director Boris Dittrich about the role of businesses in promoting LGBT acceptance, what Europe could learn from Latin America, and his own experience as a member of the Dutch Parliament fighting for marriage equality in the Netherlands.

The Honduran appellant hopes the complaint will push the government to act on other pending petitions from gay refugees fleeing violence in the region.

There are few set criteria governing how transgender inmates should be handled by Costa Rican prisons. Many men who identify as women are sent to men's prisons.

Few aspects of life are as fraught with contradictions in Latin America as sexuality. Our culture is simultaneously filled with sensual stimulus and religious censure. We spin in a whirlwind of seduction and shame, of pleasure and guilt.

Floats festooned with rainbow flags and balloons inched their way down San José’s main thoroughfare, Paseo Colón and Avenida 2, between marchers carrying flags and signs in support of equal rights for Costa Rica’s LGBT community. Thousands participated, including Vice President Ana Helena Chacón and several large corporations, including Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Thompson Reuters, among others.