After a nearly four-year legal battle, Fabiana Banzer and Scarlett Rocha on Friday became the first same-sex couple in Bolivia to enter into a civil marriage. Still, their legal victory could open the door for other same-sex couples to have their partnerships recognized. The couple applied on October 12, 2022, for a civil marriage with legal support from the queer organization IGUAL Bolivia. “Rather than speaking of a beginning, we should speak of historical continuity: from the first recognized civil partnership to the first civil marriage,” he wrote on Facebook. Facebook / davidctor|Although Bolivia has not criminalized consensual same-sex acts since 1832 and also has anti-discrimination laws to protect queer people, same-sex couples are not legally allowed to adopt children.