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24 3.2002 luumiinews M o v in g P a c k in g PRIESTLEY & SO N S Locally Owned 6 Operateti Since 1929 UNITED KINGDOM M Specializing in Oregon & Washington Full Time Professional Employees 142126 «i Send Mom the perfect gift. u urbani box anchester, England, has followed London in setting up a registry for gay couples. Its system goes a step further, allowing gays to unite at an office before officials. In London, gays only may register Wednesdays and Satur days at the visitors center of the Greater London Authority. T he first couples in M anchester were united April 19. O ne registrant, Steven Brayshaw, lamented the limited benefits of the procedure. “We have just stood in the same room-as the heterosexual couple who were married 20 min utes before us,” he told Ananova.com. “Like them, we stood in front of a registrar and exchanged vows and signed the register, but our relationship is not officially legal and is not rec ognized except by the city of Manchester. 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It was a Scottish legal first, according to the Scotsman newspaper. The ex-husband also is still a legal parent. “Family is about cohesion, about bringing people together in a secure, loving, stable envi ronment,” one of the women, Natalie, told the paper. “When David falls over, he runs to one of us. When Cameron sees me or Pam or David, his face lights up. That’s family.” The ruling will be used in an appeal by another Scottish lesbian couple who recently were denied joint parental rights because the judge said they did not constitute a proper family unit. In that case, the judge granted parental rights to the sperm donor who fathered the child. refused treatment when they got sick,” Bondy- opadhyay said. “One of the arrested had his glasses stamped on and broken and had to spend 45 days’ incarceration with impaired vision.” RUSSIA ussia has the world’s fastest-growing HIV A ID S chief Peter Piot told the Moscow Times April 12. “The situation in Russia and the [12 for mer Soviet republics] is rapidly getting out of control,” he said. “New infections double each »» year. Piot said that needle sharing causes most infections hut that “an ihcreasing number are being infected through sexual activity.” The Peter Piot current budget allocates about $5.3 million to fight HIV. The national government reports only 200,000 HIV cases. The United Nations says the real number might approach 800,000, and a top Russian AIDS official recently estimated it could top 1 million. R ; rate, U .N. NIGERIA A total of 14 high schoolers at Bim in Kudu College in the Nigerian state of Jigawa have been arrested for beating to death a fel low student they thought was gay. The sus pects are being held in the capital city of Dutse. Inuwa Yakubu was dragged from his bed and beaten until he lost consciousness, the African Eye News Service reported. He later came to and crawled hack to his bed, where he died. AUSTRALIA A n Australian court overruled the wishes of a lesbian couple April 5 and granted increased visitation rights to the gay man who donated the sperm to conceive their son. The ruling was handed down by the state o f V ictoria’s Family Court in he man behind Melbourne. the U.K. version Victoria is one of of Queer as Folk is two Australian back w'ith another groundbreaking gay states where “social ly infertile” (as op series. posed to “medically Russell T. 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