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he House of Representatives voted 91-22
with nine abstentions Jan. 30 to legalize
same-sex marriage.
However, it withheld
adoption rights. In addition,
foreigners are allowed to
marry in Belgium only
when the marriage also
would he permitted in their
home country.
The Senate already had
approved the measure, which
will come into force in June. 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.
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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
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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
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CANADA
endorsement of their work.
tatistics Canada is counting the nation’s
Harvey told the Melbourne daily newspaper
gays. In its ongoing Canadian Community
The Age that Courage teaches chastity because
Health Study, the agency asks, “Do you consid- I it doesn’t know how to cure homosexuality. “A t
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