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Robert Rapp and Ernst Ostertag make history July 1 as the first same-sex couple to register
their partnership in Zurich, Switzerland
SWITZERLAND
ame-sex couples began registering their part
nerships July 1 in Zurich. Zurich follows
Geneva in setting up a gay partnership registry.
Rights are extended in the areas of taxes, inher
itance, hospital visits, social security and other
matters. The law was passed by 62 percent of the
voters in Zurich canton (province) last September.
The first couple to tie the knot were Ernst
Ostertag and Robert Rapp, both 73. They
arrived at City Hall in a horse-drawn carriage.
“It’s really a coronation of everything that
the whole community has done in the past 50
years," Ostertag told Swisslnfo.org. A national
partnership registration measure is working its
way through Parliament.
INTERNATIONAL
| )olice said half a million people turned out
I for Paris’ Gay Pride parade June 28, led by
gay Mayor I3ertrand Delanoe. Organizers believe
700,000 were present.
A representative of President Jacque Chirac’s
conservative Union for a Popular Movement
joined the parade for the first time. Jean-Luc
Romero, the party’s gay national secretary, told
Sky News, “1 have been a militant for gay rights
for a long time, so it was natural that I be the first
person to represent the UMP at this march."
Berlin’s 25th Gay Pride parade attracted
600,000 people to the streets June 28. Gay
Mayor Klaus Wowereit led the procession, car
rying red roses and a pink teddy bear.
“There is no reason to hide," he said. “We
have a tolerant atmosphere here in Berlin.”
A total of 650,000 people turned out to
watch 40,000 marchers and 90 floats July 6 in
Cologne, Germany’s Christopher Street Day
parade. Wowereit made the trip west to join that
celebration as well.
About 200,000 people attended a Pride
march June 28 in Vienna, Austria—and 200
people marched under heavy police guard in
Zagreb, Croatia. Many bystanders disparaged
the Croatian group, local reports said.
it for the destruction of dozens of Gay Pride flags
that had been put up along the march route.
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz spoke at a
post-parade rally and concert. “1 have come to
wish you a happy holiday," he said. “We are all
proud of you.”
In Haifa, marchers set off from the main bus
station and proceeded down several central
streets, ending at the French Carmel. That
parade also saw a heavy police presence.
INDIA
bout 100 gays and cross-dressers staged a Gay
Pride march June 28 in Calcutta. Reports
said puzzled bystanders stared with curiosity.
One organizer told Reuters, “We got many
e-mails from gays and lesbians saying they want
ed to join the march but arc afraid to come out
publicly." The cities of Bombay and Bangalore
are considered more gay-friendly than Calcutta.
SOUTH KOREA
A bout 600 queers marched June 22 in Seoul.
a * The Korea Herald took note of “men strut
ting their stuff in fancy tights and sequins."
“At least for a day, in a circumscribed area
removed from the daily grind of family and
work, many seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as
they waved their pink balloons and rainbow
colored flags,” the newspaper said. Most of the
participants wore red ribbons around their ann,
wrist or neck as a signal to media that they did
not wish to be photographed, the Herald said.
MEXICO
erida, which is located in the state of
Yucatan, saw its first Gay Pride parade
June 28.
About 200 people marched from Mejorada
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housands of queers marched June 20 in
Jerusalem and Haifa, the Haaretz news
paper reported. It was Jerusalem’s second parade
and Haifa's first.
The Jerusalem march started at Safra Square
and proceeded through Jaffa Street, Shlomo
Hamelech and Agron, ending at independence
Park, the paper said.
Police presence was heavy because of fears
that right-wing groups or ultra-Orthodox Jews
might disrupt the event. Earlier in the week, the
banned, right-wing Kach movement took cred Israelis show their Pride on June 20 in Jerusalem