Same-sex marriage in Jalisco

Same-sex marriage is legal in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Same-sex couples have been eligible to receive marriage licenses in all parts of the state since 12 May 2016.Civil unions for same-sex couples have also been legal in the state since 1 January 2014 following approval of an Act allowing such unions by Congress in October 2013.

In April 2013, deputies of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM), Citizens' Movement (MC) and an independent deputy presented the Free Coexistence Act (Ley de Libre Convivencia). In it is established that same-sex civil unions can be applied in the state, as long as they are not considered as marriages, there is no adoption and they are performed with a civil law notary. On 31 October 2013, the Congress of Jalisco approved the Act in a 20-15 vote, one abstained and three were absent. The law took effect on 1 January 2014.

A female same-sex couple was able to become the first same-sex couple to marry in the state on 14 December 2013. In December 2013, 12 couples of the same sex—eight women and four men—filed an injunction after each of their requests for a marriage license were denied. The injunction was granted on 12 June 2014 and became the 2nd ruling invalidating the Civil Code of Jalisco. In January 2014, a male couple went to the Civil Registry in Guadalajara and were denied a marriage license based on Article 258 of the State Civil Code, which limits marriage to one man and one woman. They filed for an injunction in the Fourth District Court. On 8 January 2015 because the municipal government of Guadalajara challenged the right to an injunction, the case was elevated to the Supreme Court of the Nation.

The couple received an injunction, but still contested the constitutionality of Jalisco's Civil Code. The SCJN announced on 15 April 2015 that it would review article 258 of the State Civil Code which describes marriage as "An institution of public character and social interest, through which a man and a woman decide to share a state of life in search of personal fulfillment and the foundation of a family". On 24 March 2014, ten same-sex couples, went to the registry office in Guadalajara and were each denied their request for a marriage license. With the support of CLADEM they filed for an injunction.

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