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♦ november 15.2002 22 >1 news DENMARK 10541 $E Cherry Blossom Dr., Portland (by Mall 205) 7 — m — t ~7? — in — m 6 0Z0SH0P.C0M ONLINE MOZO FOOTWEAR SUPPLY 1 'I i il 11 ^ " The Best T h i n g f f ^ You’ll Ever Step In! J Ite -d W JL ^JL in ¡t n ,1'r, he government of the Fa rex; Islands “is on the verge of a major schism” concerning gay partnerships, the» Copenhagen Post reported Oct. 24- Even though the Faroes are an administrative divi sion of L3enmark, the islands never imported the nation’s 1989 gay registered partner ship law. Faroese gays who wish to tie the knot must travel to Denmark to do so. Several members of the Faroese Parliament have threatened to withdraw from the ruling government coalition if the registered partner ship law is introduced, the Post said. But Repub lican Party leader and MP for justice issues H0gni Hoydal refuses to hack down. "We can’t just export all our problems to Denmark," he told the daily newspaper Socialurm. “We’re going to have to address issues in the Faroe Islands that are sensitive." MP Jogvan a Lakjuni responded: “It is, first and foremost, a crime against nature for homosex uals to enter registered partnerships.... It is simply tcxi far out that a society can give two people of the same sex the same rights as a married couple.” The Faroe population is descended from ninth century Vikings. The islands have been connect ed politically to Denmark since the 14th century hut attained a high degree of self-government in 1948. Located between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, halfway between Ice land and Norway, they have 46,011 residents. CANADA U nique G arden A rt & S pecialty Gins . 'I v t u l v- ~7 » r; t .. t Living By The Garden I82S \l, Alberta I’ll 151141 2X7-1 H I N ewly O pened Your Just Out staff is taking an extra week off. W e're gonna eat turkey, cavort with elves and fairies and prepare our most awesome ever indows were shot out with pellet guns at Gay-M ART and the queer Ixxikstore Lit- i tie Sister’s in Vancouver, British Columbia, ! Xtra! West reports. Both businesses are on the city’s gayest avenue, Davie Street. “We knew when we put a big pink triangle and the name Gay-MART on the store that there were going to be hassles,” owner Gil Fargen said. W called homosexuality a cultural “problem" like “polygamy.” He added, “The Bible is.. .very, very clear on where we stand on this issue.” Incoming Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is more liberal— and, as a bishop, knowingly ordained at least one noncelibate gay priest. However, since being selected to succeed Carey, he has said he will not impose a gay “manifesto of his own devising” on the church. ❖ ustoms censors have seized copies of the British lesbian novel Cherry because of “a fist-fucking scene," London’s Gay Times report ed in its November issue. In notices sent to Toronto’s Glad Day Btxiks and Victoria, British Gilum bia’s Bleeding Rose Books, officials said the language was “degrading.” Another British gay hook, Slave King, was seized in the same shipments. Glad Day’s Toshiya Kuwahara accused the government of paying extra attention to packages from U.S. distributor Ginsortium, which sent the publica tions to Canada. C ❖ tatistics Canada released Oct. 22 the results j of its effort to count same-sex couples in the l 2001 census. About 3 percent of common-law couples declared themselves gay. In all, 34,200 same-sex UNITED KINGDOM couples were counted, about one-half of 1 per he European Giurt of Human Rights has cent of all couples. Single gays and lesbians were not counted. ordered Britain to compensate five people Obviously, neither were closeted couples. who were kicked out of the military for being gay. “Before the 2001 census, [gay] people had no They suffered violations of their rights to a private life and to remedy for a breach by a public author option but to mark their marital status as single,” ity, as guaranteed by the European Ginvention on John Fisher of the national lobby group Equality for Human Rights, the court ruled Oct. 22. Gays and Lesbians Everywhere told the Canadian Press wire service. This census “sends a message The government will have to pay about that we are a normal, natural part of the Gtnadian $580,000. Britain lifted its military gay ban in Jan fabric who are here to stay, and the governments uary 2000 under order from the European Giurt. •*5» and courts need to face up to their responsibilities.” A majority of the self-declared same-sex cou new poll found that one in 10 Britons have ples live in British Gilumhia, Ontario and Que had gay sex, that half support legalization bec. In Vancouver, 15 percent of all common- of gay marriage and that a quarter think gay sex law couples said they were gay, followed by 9.8 should be illegal. percent in Toronto, 6.7 percent in Ottawa, 6.3 Other findings include: 25 percent of men are unhappy with the size of their penis, 17 percent percent in Montreal and 4 5 percent in Calgary. of respondents have committed adultery (22 per About 15 percent of the female couples had cent of men and 13 percent of women), and 41 kids living with them compared with 3 percent percent wcxild consider having sex for money— of male couples. for the right price. The poll, conducted for the Observer newspaper, quizzed 1,027 people. ^ T ^ h e Bible is crystal clear that gay sex is A wrong, the outgoing head of the Anglican Church said Oct. 21 in Toronto. fter three hours of heated debate, the Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey House of Lords voted 196-162 Oct. 16 to S See y o u on D e ce m be r 6! SyWf/os PAINT YOUR OWN POTS HANDMADE GIFT GALLERY A Rekindle the spirit of the season. D » 9cover the Joy o f making and giving handmade g ifts 1718 N E Alberta T 503.288.0770 A
