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march 15 .2002^» i’iUMninews Full service Florist serving the entire Portland metro area for 20 years team But the continental court said that scientific opinion is split on whether it harms children to he raised by gay parents, that the Council of Europe’s 41 member nations are not of one mind on the issue, that gay adoption law is in a state of flux and that “a broad margin of appreciation had to be left to the authorities of each state, who [arc] in principle better placed than an interna- tional court to evaluate lixzal needs and condi tions." Frettc, 47, has three months to appeal the 4-3 mling to the court’s full 17-member chamber. GREENLAND reenland’s first gay group came into exis- $ fence Feb. 9, the Swedish newspaper QX reported. About 30 people gathered in the capi tal city, Nuuk, to form the organization. A self-governing overseas administrative division of Denmark, Greenland adopted the nation’s sweeping gay partnership law in 1994, five years after it took effect, but never had a gay group until now, Q X said. The island has a pop ulation of 56,352. EGYPT w w w .m aryjean sflow ers.co m 13822 S.E. Oatfield Rd. • M ilw aukie, OR 97222 M o v in g 1 P a c k in g PRIESTLEY & SONS Locally Owned & Operated Since 1929 AUSTRALIA ustralia finally gave British gay activist Peter Tatchell a visa Feb. 19— too late for him to attend his stepfather’s funeral or, he says, the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Gov ernment Meeting. He had announced plans to sue the government a week earlier. “This ends nearly six months of delay and obstruction,” Tatchell said. “There was never any lawful basis for excluding me under legis lation that was intended to bar war criminals, terrorists, drug traffickers and murderers.” T he delays likely resulted from his announced plans to effect a citizens arrest of vocifer ously anti-gay Zimbabwe Presi VENEZUELA dent Robert Mugabe at the mnesty International has mobi Com m onw ealth conference, lized its membership on behalf which was rescheduled for this of trans people in Valencia who have month after the terrorist attacks experienced several attacks and on the World Trade Center and arrests during recent weeks. the Pentagon. He should he “The abuses, reportedly at the jailed for numerous egregious hands of police officials, follow the human rights violations, murder of Michelle Paz on Jan. 11 Robert Mugabe Titchell says. and indicate that the transgender community continues to he at risk for extrajudi cial execution due to their perceived sexual orien bout 2,000 people rallied Feh. 19 outside tation and gender identity," the group said. “Fur Parliament House in Perth, the capital thermore, transgender activists have publicly denounced police brutality, leaving them easy tar o f Western Australia, in opposition to a gay law reform hill that has passed the Lower gets for reprisals." House. Among the recent incidents, according to According to the West Australian, the mea Amnesty: • Two days after Paz’s murder, a man in civil sure lowers the state’s legal age for gay sex from 21 to 16 and grants same-sex couples the ian clothes thought to be an officer shot at trans same legal rights as married couples, including activist Paola Sanchez. She escaped unharmed, access to adoption and in vitro fertilization. hut police arrested her a few hours later at home. • Trans activists Vicky Martinez and Kevin C a T he hill is expected to pass the Upper House easily, the newspaper said. pote were arrested Jan. 16 and held for three days at La Isabelica prison. Capote reported being severely PO LAND beaten by police before being incarcerated. oznan Catholic Archbishop Monsignor • Officers from the Cathedral Parish Com Juliusz Paetz was outed Feh. 23 as a gay mand forced Gabriela Ojeda into a squad car man who repeatedly has sexually harassed Feh. 5. She was taken to police headquarters and priests and seminarians. interrogated on the whereabouts of Maury T he exposé ap Oviedo, president of peared in the daily Respect for the Personal newspaper Rzeczpospo - ity, a trans rights group. lita. The incidents • The intelligence were so frequent, the department of Police rector of the seminary General Headquarters banned Paetz from the issued a search warrant property, the publica Feb. 8 for Oviedo. She tion said. had filed a complaint “Despite the protests with the Inter-American of priests and lay Commission on Human Catholics, Monsignor Rights in October 2000 Paetz has not changed alleging a policeman his ways,” the paper killed trans person said. “Letters sent to Dayana Nieves. Oviedo the Polish episcopate, is in hiding and fears for to the apostolic nuncio, her life, Amnesty said. the pope’s representa “We are disturbed by tive in Warsaw and to reports that the police Trans woman Michelle Paz (left) was murdered Rome have not re may be behind the Jan. 11 in Venezuela ceived any reply." jH attacks on the transgen der community," said Michael Heflin, director Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported of Amnesty U SA ’s OUTfront program. “The for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's government must send a clear message that this degree in journalism from Drake University and will not he tolerated and take action to ensure started his career as a radio reporter. that human rights will be respected.” T ( 503) 653-8444 .a 0 he number of men jailed in Egypt solely for being gay is in the “hundreds,” Newsweek reported Feb. 16. 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