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he National Assembly of Quebec voted
1 unanimously June 7 to grant gay and straight
couples who enter an official civil union all the
rights and obligations of marriage— including
access to adoption and artificial insemination.
That places the province just behind the
Netherlands, where same-sex couples, including
foreign residents, are allowed to marry under the
regular marriage laws iastead of civil union or
domestic partnership laws set up for gay men and
lesbians. Several European nations grant registered
gay couples 99 percent of the rights and obligations
of marriage hut still are haggling over matters such
as adoption, iasemination and church weddings.
“This is the first of its kind in the world," Irene
Demczuk of the Quebec Coalition for the Recog
nition of Same-Sex Couples told Toronto’s Globe
and Mail. “There is no other jurisdiction in the
world where equality was offered unanimously to
same-sex couples and their children.
“The hill answers all our prayers," she added
in a press statement. “It is a historic event in
that it goes even further than similar legislation
in Vermont and elsewhere in Canada. Quebec
will he the only place in North America tagive
same-sex couples the same rights, privileges and
obligations as married couples. The internation
al recognition that comes with marriage is the
only missing element.”
Quebec Attorney General Paul Bégin said he
was “very proud” the hill passed “because there
are not that many societies that have reached this
level of understanding and acceptance of the
equality of all, whatever is the [sexual] orienta
tion.” Polls indicate about 75 percent of Q ue
beckers supported legalization of gay civil unions.
Gay advocates will push on for access to mar
riage itself.
“The only reason why Quebec couldn’t go as
far as the Netherlands is simply because the def
inition of marriage under the Canadian Consti
tution is federal, and the federal law defines it as
between a man and a woman,” said André
Gagnon, publisher of the Montreal gay news
paper Être. “Quebec’s Civil Code has been
amended by Bill 84 to withdraw any reference to
sex of the spouses. So Quebec’s law is just wait
ing for the federal law to change to allow same-
sex marriage. Civil union has been created to
pressure the change in the federal law [because]
it’s basically the same thing as marriage.”
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n one of the first tests of the portability of the
Netherlands’ gay marriages, an Italian couple
got married June 1 at City Hall in The Hague.
The Netherlands is the only nation that lets
same-sex couples marry under the exact same
laws as heterosexuals. Foreigners can marry after
a brief period of residency.
Antonio Garullo, 37, and Mario Ottocento,
30, who live in the town of Latina, south of Rome,
tied the knot as Italian and Dutch journalists and
gay Italian politician Franco Grillini kxiked on.
“It’s obvious that their marriage is of political sig
nificance,” Grillini told Agence France-Presse.
The couple will demand that Italy recognize
their marriage and will appeal all the way to the
European Court of Human Rights if necessary,
they said.
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bout 100,000 Dutch gay men and lesbians
live with a lover— a 25 percent increase
from five years ago— the Central Bureau of Sta
tistics said June 4.
More than 7,000 of the couples have gotten
married or registered their partnership, according
to the agency. One in L3 of the cohabitating same-
sex couples has adopted a baby, the bureau said.
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Bill Schiller (right) attends the “Our Rain
bow” Cultural Conference on Dec. 13, 2001,
in Kiev, Ukraine
M OLDOVA
ueers in the former Soviet republic of
Moldova staged their first Pride events
April 26 to 29 in Chisinau, the nation’s capital.
People attended movies, concerts, shows, exhibi
tions, seminars and a soccer tournament between
gay men and lesbians, among much else.
“It has been amazing once again to see how a
small group in one of the poorest nations of
Europe can display such a rich and sophisticated
use of homo culture to underline visibility and
international solidarity,” said Bill Schiller of the
International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network.
“This is a sharp contrast to some of the Prides in
the West, which grow each year in size and glit
ter but which suffocate in provincial commer
cialism— shutting out those without money and
turning their backs on those in other countries
stmggling against homophobia and persecution.”
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arliament extended adoption rights to regis
tered gay couples June 5.
“There are no limits,” said Jon Voss, editor of
the gay newspaper QX. “T hat makes Sweden
the first country in the world to say yes to inter
national adoptions as well.”
Some European nations that allow gay adop
tion restrict couples to domestic babies to avoid
conflict with the presumably homophobic Third
World nations from which most foreign babies
are adopted. Gay couples who enter a Swedish
registered partnership now lack only two rights
that are available to straight people: access to
artificial* insemination technology and access to
marriage itself.
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y olice estimated 400,000 people turned out for
Sao Paulo’s Gay Pride parade June 2. Mayor
Marta Suplicy attended and said she is proud the
city has become the gayest place in Latin America.
Lesbian motorcyclists led the parade, which
included more than 20 sound trucks pumping out
disco and techno music. The march traversed
Avenida Paulista, a principal thoroughfare, for
three miles, ending at Pra^a da Repuhlica, a
downtown square in the city’s gayest quarter.
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