Striking a pose in downtown Guatemala City during that country's Pride Parade on June 28, 2014. Several countries in the region, including Mexico, Guatemala,...
Economist Lee Badgett says equal treatment for gays and lesbians can benefit economies from Virginia to India. For the past two decades, she's mined data in her quest to prove it.
Despite 90 percent support for equal rights for the LGBT community, a relatively high number of Ticos still oppose adoption and blood donation, and support āpsychological treatmentā to change a personās sexual orientation.
Just over a week since taking office, President Luis Guillermo SolĆs made history Friday morning when he became the first Costa Rican leader to raise the rainbow flag of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement on even mast with the Costa Rican red-white-and-blue tricolor on the lawn of the Casa Presidencial.
See where Citizen Action Party candidate Luis Guillermo SolĆs headed to court votes and what organization gave its blessing to ruling party candidate Johnny Araya.
The Episcopal Church of Costa Rica announced Thursday that it would join the Lutheran Church, the LGBT advocacy group Diversity Movement, the U.S.-based Human Rights Campaign, and the Student Federation of the University of Costa Rica to discuss faith, sexual orientation and gender identity.
On Tuesday morning, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court bounced a request for guidance back to lower family courts in the latest move to decide the legality of same-sex civil unions in Costa Rica.