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he European Court of Human Rights has
told the United Kingdom to stop discrimi
nating against transsexual Christine Goodwin
hy refusing to recognize she is female.
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.
The partnership law granted registered gay
couples spousal rights and obligations in areas
such as inheritance, health insurance, immigra
tion, name changes and alimony hut withheld
rights in the areas of adoption, taxation, pen
sions and social welfare benefits. It took effect in
August 2001.
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he British Broadcasting Corp.’s Radio 1 and
London’s Capital Radio opted not to playlist
the new George Michael single that has been de
nounced
by
some as anti-
American.
A m o n g
much else, the
animated video
for the song,
“Shoot
the
Dog," portrays
U.S. President
Bush as an
I
George Michael
imbecile and
depicts
him
and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as gay.
The single will not he released here hut can he
downloaded at www.mtv.co.uk.
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.”
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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