In 2022, Brazil saw a 19.8% jump in same-sex marriages, reaching 11,000—the highest since the 2013 mandate prohibiting registry denial. This data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reveals that most of these marriages (60.2%) were among women. However, these unions constituted just 1.1% of Brazil’s total marriages, numbering 970,000 for the […]
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