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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.
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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."
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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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\ Bogota-based family court ruled last
C V month that a deceased gay man’s lover is
entitled to be his sole heir.
Harold and Dagoberto lived together for five
years. In the final months when Dagoberto was
dying of AIDS, Harold was his only caretaker
and spent weeks at his side in the hospital.
During that time Dagoberto’s family avoided
him. Nonetheless, following Dagoberto’s death,
the family took possession of the couple’s apart
ment, which had been in Dagoberto’s name, and
kicked Harold out.
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.
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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.