Mexico City Offers Free Honeymoon to Gay Couple

First Argentines to wed get the trip
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 15, 2010 6:24 PM CDT
Mexico City Offers Free Honeymoon to Gay Couple
Demonstrators wave a gay pride flag outside Congress in support of a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Buenos Aires, Wednesday July 14, 2010.   (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mexico City—the first city in Latin America to legalize gay marriage—is reaching out to Argentina—the first country in the region to do so. The first Argentine couple to wed under the new law will get a free honeymoon to the Mexican capital. The tourism minister says the offer is to pay tribute to tolerance—"but also to promote gay-friendly tourism," reports AFP. From somewhere, he brandishes a stat that says homosexual tourists spend 47% more than their hetero counterparts.
(More Argentina stories.)

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