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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. We
don’t have the same rights that other couples
take for granted.”
The ceremony costs $141. The office plans
to change the sign on its door to read, “Register
of Birth, Marriages, Death and Partnerships.”
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lesbian couplfe in Edinburgh, Scotland,
have been granted joint parental rights
to their two sons. O ne hoy was conceived
with donated sperm, and the other was horn
to the second woman during a heterosexual
marriage.
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
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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. Davies’
infertile” ) women
Bob and Rose already
are not allowed to
has aired in Britain
use sperm hanks,
and is airing now in
which led the couple
Canada. It’s about a
to arrange an infor
gay man and a straight
woman who fall in
mal agreement with
Bob and Rose is like a British Will & Qrace —
love— and go for it.
the gay man. The
with a twist
parties to the court
SWITZERLAND
case were not named in media reports.
ndian gay activist Aditya Bondyopadhyay
addressed the U .N . Commission on Human
IRELAND
Rights on April 8 in G eneva detailing dis
new study of Irish gay men found that one
crim ination, harassment, arrests, beatings,
in five had more than 16 sexual partners in
torture, blackmail, extortion and rape in his
the past year and that 3 percent had more than
native land. Much of the abuse is carried out
51 partners, the Irish Independent reported
by police, the judiciary and other state insti April 6.
tutions, he said.
The average number of sexual partners was
Among much else, Bondyopadhyay present five. The men met at bars, bathhouses, social
ed details on the “Lucknow 4” case, in which
clubs, private parties, cruising spots and public
four HIV prevention workers were charged with
toilets as well as on the Internet.
conspiring to commit “unnatural sexual acts"
About 8.5 percent had sex with a woman
under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
in the past year. H alf of the respondents had
They were detained without bail for 45 days to
a regular male sexual partner, and half of that
seven months.
! group had been partnered for more than two
“The arrested four were beaten, denied food,
years,
forced to drink sewer water, abused regularly and
The survey was conducted by the Gay
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