Currently, Canada and the United States are the only countries in North America that allow same-sex couples to marry everywhere within their boundaries. In Mexico, ten Mexican states and the Mexican federal district of Mexico City have legalized same-sex marriage, although such marriages are recognized throughout the 31 states of Mexico, and same-sex couples can get married in any other state by obtaining a court injunction. Same-sex marriages are also performed in the Caribbean Netherlands, Bermuda, Greenland, and in French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, and Saint Pierre & Miquelon).
Furthermore, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten recognize same-sex marriages performed in the Netherlands. In addition, one Mexican state performs some sort of civil union and all the remaining Mexican states have won injunctions to have individual couple's marriages performed under court order. North America and South America are the only continents where a majority of people live in a jurisdiction providing marriage rights to LGBT citizens.
legal in some jurisdictions; allowed by injunction in others
(1 country)
Costa Rica On March 19, 2015, a bill to legalize same-sex marriage was introduced to the Legislative Assembly by Deputy Ligia Elena Fallas Rodríguez from the Broad Front. On December 10, 2015, the organization Front for Equal Rights (Frente Por los Derechos Igualitarios) and a group of deputies from the Citizens' Action Party, the National Liberation Party and the Broad Front presented another bill.