Mellow Montevideo takes Latin American lead in honouring sexual diversity

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY–Tucked away down a lane in the Old City is a tiny parkette surrounded by murals.

Sun-baked and blasted with bone-rattling construction sounds from the highrise next door, the Sexual Diversity plaza is not a comfortable hangout on this warm spring day, but it's a landmark

In 2005, it became the first known monument honouring sexual minorities in Latin America – and it's located in the capital city of the first Latin American country to legislate same-sex civil unions nationwide. 

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