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In yet another example of the steps towards a more progressive society in Mexico’s capital city, gay prisoners are now allowed to have conjugal visits like their heterosexual counterparts. Mexico’s La Jornada reports:

For the first time, a gay prisoner was allowed to exercise his right to intimate visits in a prison in Mexico City, after the Human Rights Commission of Federal District (CDHDF) gave the recommendation on February 8th of last year. [The recommendation] was derived from a complaint by Mr. Agustín N., who said he was denied intimate visits with his partner, a prisoner, at the Santa Marta Acatitla prison on multiple occasions. This was called out by the CDHDF as a violation of the rights of prisoners and of the right to not be discriminated against because of sexual orientation.

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