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The Australian Council for Lesbian and Gay
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deterring mainstream churches from supporting
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filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, U.S. pom star Chris
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he British Columbia Supreme Court ruled
June 7 that Vancouver Rape Relief can be
sued under the provincial Human Rights Code
for refusing to accept a transsexual volunteer
because she used to be a man.
Rape Relief tried to have Kimberley Nixons
complaint quashed by arguing that the Human
Rights Code does not protect trans people from
discrimination, hut the court said “gender iden
tity” protections are implied in the law.
The case will he heard by a tribunal in
December.
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The department said it doubted Horizons’
activities meet requirements such as promoting
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celand’s parliament, the Althingi, expanded
the nation’s gay partnership law last month.
Registered gay couples already had 99 per
cent of the rights
and obligations of
matrimony. Now
gay spouses will be
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he government of Brazil issued a decree
June 8 granting same-sex couples spousal
rights in the areas of pensions, social security
benefits and income taxation.
“This decision is historic and unprecedented
[in] all of Latin America,” said Toni Reis, direc
tor of the gay group Dignidade.
Meanwhile, a gay "civil partnership” hill
remains stalled in Congress. The bill’s sponsor,
Congresswoman Marta Suplicy, said the decree
“increases the chances that my hill can be
approved after the [October] elections.”
Brazil is both more and less gay-friendly than
other nations in the region. On the one hand,
77 municipalities ban discrimination based on
sexual orientation and 54 percent of the popula
tion supports the idea of a gay partnership law.
But the nation also has the highest recorded rate
of anti-gay murders in Latin America.
lived in Iceland for two years.
The adoption measure was opposed by some
religious activists, who collected 1,050 signa
tures against it. (Iceland has a population of
nearly 280,000.)
Icelandic Gay and Lesbian Association
spokesman Thorvaldur Kristinsson commented:
“The determination and acuity of the small
movement of lesbians and gays in Iceland has
led to a miracle in the last two decades. A recent
Gallup poll shows that two-thirds of Icelanders
find nothing wrong in lesbians and gays taking
responsibility for adopting children. This is a
nation that only 20 years ago was so prejudiced
that homosexuals were forced to emigrate
abroad. But our society is small and messages
travel fast. Through cogent arguments we have
reached the people of this country.”
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Polish gay leader Slawek Starosta
There also will be “countless workshops,
concerts, exhibitions, plays, movies and parties,”
said spokesman Slawek Starosta.
Full information is available on the Internet
at www.gay.pl/gay_pride/angiel.htm.
• Austria: Under the slogan “Vienna goes
the other way,” about 50,000 people marched
the wrong way around Vienna’s one-way ring
road in the city’s June 17 pride parade.
• Brazil: Police said 120,000 people con
verged on Sao Paulo’s main financial avenue
June 25 for the city’s fourth pride parade. Ban
ners called for an end to hate crimes and preju
dice.
• Canada: Thousands walked in Toronto’s
dyke march June 24 to the tune of Annie
Lennox’s "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves.”
The same day, roughly 500 people marched
in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
About 1,000 people attended Edmonton,
Alberta’s pride parade June 10. In Calgary a day
later, nearly 1,000 people walked, danced, skat
ed or rode on floats in the pride parade, The Cal'
gory Sun reported.
The first pride parade in the Canadian
province of New Brunswick attracted about 100