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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 16, 2000)
.Lfie ’ S 20DC T7TTimneu>s You’d better sit down for this. Bummer dude... you’re going to have to wait three weeks tor your next issue ot See vou on July 7 - 4 In the meantime visit us at 'A-uw.justout.com tor updated bulletins and event listings Jerry Poirier cares more about your best interest than making a sale. Shocking, isn’t it? Well, it shouldn’t be. Placing your needs and goals above ARGENTINA INTERNATIONAL he city ot Buenos Aires wants teachers to be more gav-supportive. The City Council unanimously passed a res olution May 11 urging the secretary of educa tion to “implement specific actions of teacher training at all educational levels to eliminate attitudes and conduct that explain divergent sexual identities as illness, perversions or pathologies." The council also suggested that classroom studv on discnmmation-related issues "include themes relevant to sexual minonties, for the purpose of eliminating homophobic conduct in our society" rganizers of World Pride Rome 2000, an international gay extravaganza scheduled for June 28 through July 9, face a mounting cam paign to close the events down. The Roman C ath olic Church and the extreme nght wing, including Italy’s powerful neo-fascist movement, are pressuring local authorities to deny and revoke permits for the festivities because they coincide with the church’s millennial celebrations, which will attract tens of thousands of pilgnms to the city at the same time. On May 24, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato called the events “ inopportune.” Bowing to ferocious opposition from the Vat ican and conservative politicians, Rome’s leftist mayor, Francesco Rutelli, on May 30 withdrew logistical and monetary support for World Pride. Pride organizers vowed to proceed without the city’s 5150,000 subsidy. Hours after his announcement, however, Rutelli capitulated to harsh criticism from the left. He restored the funding and promised to help with permits, but declined to back down on a demand that orga nizers remove the city logo from promotional materials. Following Rutellis original announcement, gay activist Franco Grillim called him a “subal tern to the will of the clerics,” and activist Mas simo Consoli said Rutelli wanted to be “an altar boy for the next pope.” Among the scheduled World Pride events are conferences, a fashion show, a large parade, a leather dance, and a concert featuring Gloria Gaynor, the Village People, RuPaul and Geri Halliwell. T CANADA T wo lesbians in Victoria, British Columbia, will sue for the nght to marry. Judv Lighrwater. 49, and Cynthia Callahan, 3b, were denied a marriage license by the local Vital Statistics office for their July 29 wedding. “There is no reason for us not to be able to get mamed," Lightwater told Canadian Press wire ser vice. “This law will be revealed for the human rights discnmmation it is. This is a civil nght. It’s not a privilege. We want to be legally mamed and we don’t want to wait much longer.” The B.C. case follows the city of Toronto’s deci sion in late May to seek a court ruling on whether it can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples who have requested them. A lawsuit by several gay couples is planned in Ontario as well. British Columbia’s attorney general, Andrew Petter, agrees that Callahan and Lightwater should be able to marry. “In a modem society there is no justification for denying same-sex couples the same option to form mantal tonds as are afforded to opposite- sex couples, Petter said. “Rather than waiting for the courts to determine this issue, the feder al government should change the federal law to allow for equality for all couples who are in a committed relationship." a his own creates happy clients. Happy clients mean more business for Jerry — which makes him happy. Simple, isn't it? Call Jerry today, and let him make you happy. O ISRAEL he national High Court of Justice ruled May 30 that a child can have two mothers. The court told the Interior Ministry that a lesbian who adopted her lover’s son must be reg istered as his second mother on relevant official documents. 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Harold filed suit and. two and a half years later, won full inhentance nghts— the first such ruling m Colombian history. EL SALVADOR V uthonties are investigating a same-sex mamage that reportedly took place in May in the indigenous community of San Juan Nonuako, 30 miles east of San Salvador. T h e investigation will determine whether there are crimes to punish." said Roberto Lope: of the attorney general’s office. According to news reports, school teacher Christian Chinno, 32, mamed Rafael Henera, 34, m a ceremony performed by an attorney. The adoption took place in California, where the hoy was bom via artificial insemina tion. “It’s impossible to say any longer that 1 am not his mother, and it’s impossible to say any longer that we are not a family," Nicole Brener Kadish told reporters. A gudah, the Association of Gay Men, Les bians, Bisexuals and Transgender People in Israel, is opening a new community’ center in the heart of Tel Aviv’s Nachalat Binyamin pedestrian mall. The group said the thousands of people who frequent the popular arts and crafts street each day will see a three-story building decorated with rainbow flags. The mall is also the epicenter of the city s evolving gay scene. .Agudah said. Agudah was formerly called the Society foi the Protection of Personal Rights.
