Mass Gay Wedding Ceremony Held in Rio
130 tie the knot
A total of 130 couples said "I do" in a mass wedding at Rio de Janeiro's Superior Court of Justice, marking the city's first gay civil marriages.
In mid-May, Brazilian courts determined that public offices that oversee marriages cannot reject gay couples, even though Brazil's national congress has passed no law on the matter.
Some public offices had already been accepting marriage applications from homosexual couples, while others denied them.
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