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The
ruling, published on Friday, followed a case brought by a gay
Peruvian citizen who sued the registration office for refusing
to record her 2019 marriage overseas, saying her constitutional
rights were violated.
Representatives of the office were not immediately available for
comment.
Peru is one of the few countries in Latin America that has not
recognized same-sex marriage, though it is not illegal to be
gay.
A 2021 survey by Ipsos found that 68% of people in Peru were in
favor of same-sex marriage or other legal recognition. However,
61% disapproved of gay people in public office.
The Lima court ordered the records office to "proceed with the
registration" of the woman's marriage, the Superior Court of
Justice of Lima said on Twitter.
The court declared "inapplicable" an article of the Peruvian
Civil Code of 1984 on the family, which refers to marriage as
the voluntary union between man and woman.
It is likely that an appeal against the ruling will be lodged.
In 2020, a gay couple took Peru to the Inter-American Court of
Human Rights after they lost a bid for recognition of their
Mexican marriage certificate.
At the time, the constitutional court ruled that the civil
registry of Peru only recognizes the marriage between a man and
a woman.
Other countries in South America, including Argentina, Uruguay,
Brazil and Colombia, have legalized gay marriage in recent
years.
(Reporting by Marco Aquino; writing by Isabel Woodford; editing
by Robert Birsel)
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