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A member of the Green Party, the 51 -year-old Gays who enter a Swedish registered part said he had been closeted because of “cowardice" nership now lack only two rights that are avail and to protect his career. “The gay community can count on me to defend our rights together,” he said, i able to heterosexuals: access to artificial insemi nation technology and access to marriage itself. T he mayoral election is in May. Paris and Only the Netherlands lets same-sex couples Berlin both have openly gay mayors. marry under the same laws as straight people. R U S S IA TH E N E T H E R L A N D S he St. Petersburg U nion of Journalists Dutch lesbian couple had a clone baby refused to let gay activists hold a press con Jan. 3, according to Clonaid. ference in the city’s House of Journalists on Organization head Brigitte Boisseliei^said the Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day. parents want to remain anonymous. She offered “I can’t stand gays," said union president Vladimir Ugryumov, editor of the daily newspa no proof for her claims. “If we assume sexuality is genetic, then the per Vechemy Peterburg. “1 don’t mind lesbians that much. I don’t think the intimate life of cer hahy will he the same sexuality as the parent," Boisselier told 365Gay.com. “Perhaps this will tain people has anything to do with human prove one way or the other the debate over nur rights, and 1 don’t think sexual questions should ture vs. nature.” he discussed in the public arena." Clonaid also has failed to provide proof of its Russia legalized gay sex in 1993, hut some claim that the world’s first cloned human was activists say there has been minimal societal bom in December. T he parents are wavering on progress since then. whether to allow DNA testing, Boisselier said, because legal steps taken in Florida, where the GERM ANY birth announcem ent was made, could lead to ermany’s Blind Date television show is doing 3 a gay epistxle. According to a Jan. .3 report the child being taken away from them. Clonaid was founded in the Bahamas in by .Ananova.com, bachelor Markus will choose a date from among Andreas, Patrick and Maik. 1997 by Claude Vorilhon, who leads a religious sect, the Raelians, that -believes interplanetary “My friends think it’s great for me to go public like that, and my boss even collects newspaper visitors created life on Earth. The Raelians see clippings about the show,” Markus said. Host cloning as a step toward eternal life. Jcxirg Pilawa said that if viewer response is favor able, prixlucens might do a lesbian episixJe as well. S W A Z ILA N D Imost four of every 10 adults in the small SW ED EN / African nation of Swaziland are HIV-posi- weden’s main gay tive, Prime Minister Sibusiso Dlamini said Jan. 2. rights group might The rate is similar to that of Botswana, set up its own adoption which has been pegged as having the world’s agency. Same-sex cou highest HIV rate— 38.8 percent of adults. ples secured adoption Swaziland, population about 1 million, is a m ountain kingdom situated between South rights in June hut con tinue to he ostracized by Africa and Mozambique. the nation’s six adop tion agencies, National TH A ILA N D Soren Andersson Federation for Sexual t the request of lesbian activists, Thailand's Equality president Soren Andersson told the Mental Health Department has issued a daily newspaper Metro Dec. 27. statement informing the nation that gay people “The adoption agencies have made their are not mentally aberrant and should be regarded views clear," he said. “We are now very serious as normal, Bangkok’s The Nadon reported Dec. 27. ly discussing the possibility of creating an inde The agency based its position on the World Health Organization’s International Classification pendent adoption agency.” A spokeswoman for the agencies claimed the of Diseases, which also sees gays as normal. nations that provide babies for adoption in Swe “Homosexual men and women are becoming den won’t cooperate if the children are to be increasingly more visible in Thai society in all raised by same-sex couples. occupational and professional groups, although “In many countries, homosexuality is ille many more in same-sex relationships choose to gal,’’ Annika Gmenewald said. “O nce Sweden is keep their private lives under wraps,” The Nadon T A ( A
