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Marc Verwilghen It modifies the civil code by inserting A clause stating that “two people of differ ent or the same sex can contract a marriage." “Mentalities have changed," Justice Minister Marc Verwilghen said. “There is no longer any rea son not to open marriage to people of the same sex.” T he only nation with no distinctions between same-sex and opposite-sex marriage is the Netherlands. Foreigners can marry there after a brief period of residency. Numerous nations have registered partner ship, civil union or other laws that give gay cou ples up to 99 percent o f the rights and obliga tions of marriage. .Thftse countries include Canada (Quebec’s law is the most com prehen sive), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and, in the U nited States, the stare of Vermont. Gay couples have certain spousal rights in A ustralia, A ustria, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, the United King dom and four other American states. cr yourself to he heterosexual, homosexual— that is lesbian or gay— or bisexual !" Gay activists praised the effort hut noted that some gays won’t tell Statistics Canada the truth, which will result in an undercount. The 2001 census found that one-half of 1 percent of C ana dian couples acknowledged they were in a same- sex partnership. PHOTO BY JAMIE DUNBAR Bring in this ad & dr.zzzz a free card ■ m ew s A scaled-dow n version of Sydney’s fam ous gay M ardi G ras parade will h it the streets next m onth INDIA A U S T R A L IA he High Court in the central northern state of Madhya Pradesh ruled Feh. 3 that the rastically scaled down and under new m an eunuch mayor of Katni, Kamla Jaan Mausi, is male I agement following a bankruptcy, Sydney’s and thus must step down after serving four years in famous gay Mardi Gras parade is ready to roll that position, which is reserved for a woman. March 1. Many Indian eunuchs are castrated males, hut T he 25-year-old blowout lost $413,000 last some also are transsexuals or hermaphrodites. year, and the organization was liquidated. It was Jaan s biological history is unclear, reports said. rescued by several community groups calling themselves New Mardi Gras and operating Indian eunuchs, who are widely ostracized, are best known for singing and dancing at wed mostly within a volunteer, grassnxus framework. dings and births. Recently, however, some have The number of floats will drop to around 80 begun to enter politics. from last year’s 180. The associated arts festival, which cost $460,000 to produce in 2002, is S P A IN being staged for $3,000. he Ministry of Defense announced Feh. 4 Salaries, which last year topped $600,000, that Madrid’s Gomez Ulla Military Hospi have been limited to about $41,000. Disc j(x:keys tal has ended its ban on gay and bisexual bkxxJ will play for free at the massive post-parade party, donors. Pamphlets had prohibited donations by which in 2002 cost $1.18 million to prixJuce. people with “homosexual or bisexual, promiscu “There’s a huge am ount of resources, energy ous or unstable relationship habits.” and creativity within the community, and th at’s Officials said that policy is “antiquated." In the actually come to the fore this year," New Mardi future, people who have engaged in risky behaviors Gras co-chairman Michael Woodhouse told The will be asked to exclude themselves from donating, Sydney Morning Herald. “We've had a large num and all hlcxxJ will be screened twice for HIV. ber of new people come up and say, ‘1 want to make Mardi Gras mine.’ A lot of people value GERM AN Y Mardi Gras immensely, and they actually had a he Los Angeles office of Berlin’s C onven real scare when they realized it was all over.” tion &. Visitors Bureau sent a press release -5* to the U.S. media Feh. 4 promoting gay leather- men’s events in the city. ay activists failed Jan. 30 to dissuade Mel- “Berlin’s Leather and Fetish Club is once T bourne Catholic Archbishop L3cnis Hart from again organizing ‘Easter 2003 Berlin,’ inviting throwing his support behind American psychokv local and international gay fetish enthusiasts to gist Peter Rudegeair, who teaches that homosexuals join in the fun at over 70 different events and cel can be cured of their “affliction." In the United ebrations scheduled to take place in the German States, all major mental health organizations and capital during the long weekend of April 17 to associations reject the ideas that homosexuality is 21,” Kirsten Schmidt said. “A highlight of the fes an illness and that gays can be turned straight. tivities will he the selection of the German Mr. Rudegeair was visiting the city with Father Leather 2003, who will represent the German John Harvey, founder of the Catholic organiza leather scene at the International Mr. Leather tion Courage, which counsels gays not to have contest to he held in Chicago in May 2003." sex. The archdiiKese paid some of Harvey and Rudegeair’s expenses, and Hart issued a written , * CANADA endorsement of their work. tatistics Canada is counting the nation’s Harvey told the Melbourne daily newspaper gays. 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