City legislators passed the bill 39-20. Mexico City is the first Latin American city to legalize gay marriage. The LATimes:

The bill calls for changing the definition of marriage in the city’s civil code. Marriage is currently defined as the union of a man and a woman. The new definition will be “the free uniting of two people.”

The change would allow same-sex couples to adopt children, apply for bank loans together, inherit wealth and be included in the insurance policies of their spouse, rights they were denied under civil unions allowed in the city.

The city already had a civil unions law. Meanwhile, here in the U.S., New Mexico could be come the 32nd state to ban same-sex marriage.