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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | February 2007 
Leave Us Be, Mexican Lesbian Couple Tells Media
 Reuters
Two weeks after entering into Mexico's first gay civil union, a lesbian couple says the constant media spotlight is wrecking their relationship.
Ever since national television flashed photos of Karla Lopez and Karina Almaguer, both 29 and wearing black leather jackets, taking their vows on Jan. 31, overwhelmingly macho and Catholic Mexico has been fascinated with the couple.
But the two women are fed up with the attention.
We're exhausted. It's upsetting us, Lopez was quoted as saying in the daily El Universal Tuesday. She added that she and Almaguer hadn't realized they would be the first gay couple to go through the landmark ceremony until the media attention exploded.
They don't leave us alone. They don't let us eat or sleep. Karina can't find work because everywhere she goes they follow her. They are filming and taking photos all the time, Lopez said.
For the ceremony, Lopez and Almaguer traveled to Saltillo, in the northern state of Coahuila the first Mexican state to pass a law recognizing gay unions that give homosexual couples similar rights to heterosexual married couples.
A similar law will come into effect in Mexico City in March, yet homosexuality is still barely out of the closet in most of Mexico, where sugary boy-meets-girl telenovelas heavily influence notions of love and romance and many in the Church strongly oppose gay unions.
Lopez and Almaguer, who live in the gritty northeastern state of Tamaulipas, had not told their parents they were a couple.
We have no private life, Almaguer told the daily Reforma last week. There is so much pressure on us that sometimes, in the heat of the moment, we've thought about separating. |
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