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espite rain and chilly weather, a half-mil
lion people turned out for Berlin’s Christo
pher Street Day Gay Pride parade June 23.
three-mile march from the Kurfeurstendamm
shopping street to the government district to
City Hall featured 80 floats.
Openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit
told a post-parade rally, “We won’t give the
right-wing extrem
ists a finger’s width.”
The rainbow flag
flew over City Hall
as he spoke.
Wowereit, 47,
came out June 10—
six days before city
councilors elected
him by a vote of
89-78. About 84
percent of Germans
told pollsters last
month they have
Klaus Wowereit
no problem with
the idea of a gay mayor in Berlin.
Wowereit made the announcement during a
speech at the Social Democratic Party’s conven
tion. “I’m gay, and that’s a good thing,” he said,
receiving lengthy applause.
Paris elected openly gay Socialist Bertrand
Delanoe, 50, March 18. One commentator,
writing in the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine,
said because Parisians have a gay mayor, Berlin
ers obviously wanted one, too.
“The most remarkable thing about it may well
have been that it was not remarkable at all,” Ger
man political scientist Michael Dreyer said. “In
the week between the candidate’s coming out
and today’s parliamentary election, some media
have mentioned his coming out in a matter-of-
fact way, but virtually the only comments and
editorials I saw just mentioned it in passing and
then generally favorably, as a welcome openness.
Not one of the conservative politicians who are
now replaced has made an unfriendly remark or
comment in that regard. Any such remark would
have been quite out of place in the German polit
ical culture anyway—you don’t comment on your
fellow politicians’ private lives.”
Franz Muentefering, secretary general of
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social
Democratic Party, said other gay politicians
should come out of the closet, too. His daughter
is a lesbian.
“Homosexuals and lesbians in politics can
help their party, themselves and public opinion
if they do not disguise” their sexuality, Muente
fering told Stem magazine June 20. “You create
confidence, and [homosexuality] is not whis
pered about. Someone who tells the truth about
this is someone who will tell the truth about
other things. That is how people see this issue.”
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GERMANY
tions—came from the State Department.
“Our coalition is heartened by this opportu
nity to finally honor the memories of these gay
men and lesbians who were killed by the Nazis,
The
and we are appreciative to the U.S. government
for acknowledging these non-Jewish victims,”
said Julie Dorf, a founder of the Pink Triangle
Coalition and former head of the International
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
The money will be distributed to three Ger
man groups and one international agency.
Planned projects include films, books, CD-
ROMs and Internet sites.
AUSTRIA
n outdoor exhibit on the Nazi persecution
of homosexuals was destroyed by vandals
June 13 in Vienna.
The pink-triangle pillars displaying photos and
documents related to the Third Reich’s anti-gay
repression and murder had been erected in Helden-
platz, a public square. Vienna’s cultural affairs
department will pay to have the exhibit repaired.
“It is rather strange that there are no eyewit
nesses to the attack, because this is a place which
is never completely deserted,” said Kurt Krickler
of Homosexual Initiative Vienna. “People pass
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This outdoor exhibit on the Nazi persecution of
homosexuals was a victim of vandals in Vienna
by there in the night, there is a disco nearby, and
what is most surprising, the police did not take
notice of the attack, although the exhibit is only
200 meters from the Federal Chancellery and the
office of the federal president, which we assumed
would be especially police-protected.”
BRAZIL
bout 200,000 people turned out for the
Gay Pride parade June 17 in Sao Paulo,
making it the largest march of its kind anywhere
in the Third World.
The city’s first parade six years ago attracted
only 2,000 people. Mayor Marta Suplicy addressed
the celebrants at a rally in the gay bar district.
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SLOVENIA
bout 40 sexual minorities demonstrated
June 15 at Ljubljana’s Galerija Cafe to
he states of Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia protest the venue’s reported refusal to serve gay
have filed suit in the Constitutional Court customers a week earlier. They occupied most of
to block implementation of Germany’s gay part the
patio, hoisted rainbow flags and sipped bot
tled water very slowly.
nership law, which takes effect in August.
Slovenian gay poet and activist Brane
They call it an attack on heterosexual cou
ples. The measure extends spousal rights to reg Mozetic and Canadian gay poet Jean-Paul
istered same-sex couples in areas such as inheri Daoust allegedly were denied entry to the cafe
tance, tenancy, health insurance, immigration, June 8. A bouncer reportedly told them, “You
just have to get used to the fact that this pub
hospital visitation, child custody and alimony.
isn’t for that sort of people.”
Slovenian voters June 17 overturned a
2-month-old law allowing single women to
he U.S. government has given $504,210 to
the Pink Triangle Coalition “to promote access artificial insemination technology. A
total of 72 percent of voters said the procedure
public education and remembrance of the gay
men and lesbians who were murdered by the Nazis only should be available to married women.
or otherwise persecuted during the Nazi period.”
ICELAND
The money is part of the U.S. contributions
he gay and lesbian scene virtually has dis
to the International Nazi Persecutee Relief
appeared in Iceland, London’s The Pink
Fund. The award letter to the group—a coali
Paper reports—“not through underuse but
tion of European, Israeli and U.S. gay organiza
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