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The government’s treatment of the 64-year- old violated the European Convention on Human Rights’ guarantees of the right to respect for private and family life and the right to marry, judges said July 12. “In the 21st century," the court wrote, “the right of transsexuals to person al development and to physical and moral secu rity in the full sense enjoyed hy others in society can no longer he regarded as a matter of contro versy requiring the lapse of time to cast clearer light on the issues involved." Gtxxlwin, a former bus driver, was awarded $22,600 for expenses. She will become the first U.K. citizen allowed to change the gender on her birth certificate, which will allow her to draw a state retirement pension earlier than if she were a man. “This is...the beginning of the end of a 30- year legal nightmare for the U.K.’s 5,000 trans people,” said Stephen Whittle, vice president of the transsexual activist group Press for Change. “We have to sort out these problems now,” silici Katherina Reiche, the party’s family affairs spokeswoman. “Homosexuals are being discrim inated against in many areas.” The party is hacking expansion of spousal rights into certain areas that are not covered by the nation’s gay partnership law. T he Times cited court testimony, medical information and jail visits. 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According to Michael, the reaction against him in the United States has been so strong that he will remain abroad for a time. “It’s been very heavily inferred that 1 was actu ally an al-Qaeda sympathizer, that somehow I thought that there was something not horrific and shocking and undeserved about the attacks on Sept. 11,” he said July 12. “Americans are very reactionary right now, and I...cannot return to America, even though my partner lives there.” -> bout a dozen gay and ffee-speech activists read a “blasphemous” poem depicting Jesus as gay July 11 on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London’s Trafalgar Square. The stunt was a challenge to 17th century laws banning out rageous and indecent attacks on Christianity. Publication of the poem— “The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name” by James Kirkup— led to prosecution of the paper Gay News 25 years ago. Editor Denis Lemon received a fine and a suspended prison sentence. He was the only person prosecuted between 1922 and 1977 under the laws, which have not been invoked since. The House of Lords is con sidering repealing the statutes. Police videotaped the reading, gay activist Peter Tatchell said. A small group of noisy counterdemonstrators made it difficult to hear the free-speech protest, according to reports. A Drag queens strut their stuff July 10 in Dunedin, New Zealand NEW ZEALAND rag queens in Dunedin celebrated Pride Week with a handbag- and high-hecls- hurlifig competition, the Otago Daily Times reported July 11. But it quickly degenerated into a public cat fight with the queens bludgeoning each other with the purses and pumps. “We’re keen to keep some of the stereo types,” organizer Malcolm West said. They’re a hit of fun.” D BAHRAIN ahrain has begun expelling gay migrant workers, the Manila Times reported July 11. The Islamic state bans gay sex. As part of the crackdown, the government has ordered closed about 500 beauty salons, massage parlors, flower shops and tailor shops that it says “provide haven for illicit homosexu al activities and prostitution,” according to W il helm Soriano, administrator of the Philippines’ Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. About 2,000 Filipino gays work in the affected businesses, he added. B CYPRUS T ) arliament lowered the legal age for gay sex 1 from 18 to 17 and raised the legal age for straight sex from 16 to 17 on July 11. Cyprus wants to join the European Union, which strongly discourages member countries from violating the human rights of homosexu als. Two of the other 12 countries seeking mem bership, Bulgaria and Hungary, also have anti gay laws that must he fixed, the International Lesbian & Gay Association said. A U STR A LIA GERM AN Y ermany’s conservative Christian Demo- y crats have come courting gays in anticipa tion of September’s general elections, London’s the Times reported. T he Sydney Gay Games and the city’s famous gay Mardi Gras celebration are both in economic trouble, the Weekend Aus tralian reported July 7. “The Gay Games, to he held in Sydney in November, was supposed to
