Same-sex marriage bill comes into force in Uruguay Monday Aug 5,2013

Two Gay Men - Rodrigo Borda(39)and Sergio Miranda(45) who have been a couple for 14 years have become the first to register to marry in Uruguay, hours after a law came into force allowing same-sex marriages in the country on Monday Aug 5,2013

President Jose Mujica signed the legislation in May 2013 but it took 90 days to come into effect

Uruguay is the second South American nation to pass a gay-marriage law

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Argentina became the first country in Latin America to allow same-sex marriages in 2010

Brazil's Supreme Court overwhelmingly voted in favour of granting same-sex couples the same legal rights as married heterosexuals, effectively authorising gay marriage

In Mexico, legislation on same-sex unions is a matter for individual states. Gay marriage is legal in the capital and the southern state of Quintana Roo, while the states of Coahuila and Colima allow gay couples to enter into civil unions. Gay marriage remains illegal in the rest of the country