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[WITTI news /Uallaemalt Village /kaltnemal\ Village fllaltnemak Village /Hallaemah Village Jesse Clarke and Beth Ward share a smile after receiving their marriage license June 11 at Ottawa City Hall and get married and erode the Defense of Mar riage Act,” Rac told The Washington Post. “ I think as more and more Americans come up to get married, states will have a difficult time not recognizing a sovereign state’s marriage license.” anada’s first openly gay member of Parlia ment, Svend Robinson, traveled up north to Iqaluit, Nunavut, in mid- June to urge passage of a pending territorial gay rights law and to attend Gay Pride. N u n a v u t— p o p u la tio n 29,000, created in a split from the Northwest Territo ries in 1999— is the only Canadian province or terri tory that does not ban dis crimination based on sexual orientation. “Gay and les bian people are -everywhere, including in Nunavut,” Svend Robinson Robinson told a Gay Pride picnic in Sylvia Grinnell Park, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The report said few of the 100 attendees at the event were native Inuit people. “I’ve had phone calls and e-mails from people who say, ‘I would just love to come, hut it’s a small commu nity and I’m just too afraid,’ ’’ organizer Allison Brewer told the CBC. The territory’s proposed Human Rights Act, which would ban anti-gay and other discrimina tion, awaits action by the Legislative Assembly. The measure has the support of Nunavut Pre mier Paul Okalik, who sent a friendly letter to the picnic organizers. he mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was forced to proclaim Gay Pride Week in mid-June, in violation of his Roman Catholic beliefs. Rill Smith acted after event organizers filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Com mission—a case that the city was sure to lose and that likely would have resulted in monetary dam ages. He refused to issue the proclamation for the previous eight years, provoking the Edmonton Pride Week Society to take legal action. Bill Smith “I want to make it perfectly clear that my personal opinion on this issue has not changed,” Smith said. “I have been advised that if I fail to fulfill my legal obligations.. .by my continued refusal to make this proclamation, the city of Edmonton would be liable for damages." *c* algary, the largest city in Alberta, aban- V . doned 12 years of opposition and proclaimed Gay Pride Week this year. Mayor Dave Bronconnier signed the proclamation, and Deputy Mayor Joe Ceci rixle in the June 8 parade. “1 support alt Calgarians,” Bron- connier told The Calgary Sun. “I’m not going to discriminate against one group because of their sexual orienta tion or the color of their skin or what they believe. It’s not a personal endorsement; it’s a reflection of the diversity of this city.” In neighboring M anitoba, 2,500 people marched in W innipeg’s Pride parade June 8. Provincial Pre mier Gary Doer proclaimed Les bian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgen- dered Pride Day. Le Meitour Gallery T iie (^uinelia The only museum where you get to take the treasures home. 7814 SW Capitol Hwy, Portland • 503/246-3631 ITALY bout 40,000 people turned out for Italy’s national Gay Pride parade June 7 in the southern port of Bari. A few eggs and tomatoes were tossed at the marchers. “It was a gamble to stage Gay Pride in a southern city, and we won,” said activist and member of Parliament Franco Grillini. “The success far exceeds our expectations, partly because we didn’t expect to see all the locals out in the street.” UKRAINE he Dutch government has given the Ukrainian gay group Our World $199,000. The organization used some of the money to buy an office in the capital city of Kiev. The remainder will fund operations and pay four employees for two years. Our World lobbies legislators, coordinates local gay groups, promotes tolerance and pro vides “correct information" on homosexuality, according to The Kiev Post. “We’re the first organization in Ukraine that’s trying to be loud and visible,” spokesman Andriy Kravchuk said. “And this has been gcxxl, because when we approached govern ment bodies the first time around, they were shocked. But the second time they were already getting used to us.” KUWAIT K uwait’s Civil Bench of the Court of First Instance dismissed June 8 the case of a 25- year-old woman who wanted to change her name on official documents after undergoing a sex- change operation in Thailand. The woman’s lawyer said that although she was Kim male, she always felt female and now has “no manhtxxl signs visible from the physiological point of view.” I: CZECH R EPU BLIC n need of extra cash, nine members of the Czech Repub lic’s elite Castle Guard, which protects the president, stripped down to their army underwear and posed for a gay Web site. Now they’re in trouble. The soldier who came up with the idea has resigned, and the other eight men could be demoted or jailed for one week. The men were paid $18 each for the photo shtxit. JH Compiled by R ex WOCKNER , uhn has reported far the gay press since 1985. 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