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^18.2003- r^FTimnews Park to the Plaza Grande led by entertainer Gonzalo España from the Freeway discotheque. At a post-parade rally, he promised annual gay marches from now on because homosexuals will not go back to being invisible. "During the hourlong march, which sur prised pedestrians and business owners, the gays shouted their demands on various occasions,” the newspaper Diario de Yucatán said. “Some of the men wore women’s clothes.” The same conservatives also are reeling from the election of an openly gay bishop by the Epis copal Church in New Hampshire last month and from the decision of the Anglican bishop in Vancouver, British Columbia, to offer gay union ceremonies. The Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican Communion. “There seems to be one moral standard for the second-most-senior figure in the Anglican church and another for lower-level clergy like Canon John," Tatchell said. “I urge the archbishop to fol BRAZIL low Canon John’s example of openness and hon olice said 800,000 people turned out for Sào esty. My understanding is that Archbishop David Paulo's Gay Pride parade June 22, making it Hope is gay and has, in the past, had gay sexual one of the largest gay parades on the planet and relations.... David Hope’s sexuality is now an Ally McBeal actress Portia de Rossi (right) the largest in the developing world. The march issue because he has been tolerated and indulged, is engaged to Ringo Starr’s stepdaughter featured 30 sound trucks and Mayor Marta Sup- while Jeffrey John is being hounded and victim Francesca Gregorini licy atop a float. ized.... The Anglican church has always had gay The theme was "constructing homosexual bishops. The only difference now is that Canon Gregorini, who is Ringo Starr’s stepdaughter, policies.” Activists are keen to pass a partnership Jeffrey John has had the integrity to be honest.” The Australian reported June 23. The daily bill that has lingered in Congress for several years. Tatchell charged that Hope has opposed an newspaper said the couple might wed in a few Sào Paulo has almost 100 gay bars and equal age of consent for gay sex, supported the months at Gregorini’s beach house in Vancou- restaurants and is considered to have Lit in I Children’s Society’s ban on gay foster parents, , ver, British Columbia. America’s best gay scene. More than 20 other endorsed the firing of gay clergy and “colluded CANADA Brazilian cities also celebrate Gay Pride. with ex-gay religious cults that attempt to ’cure’ homosexual people." Hope has not responded to oronto City Hall stayed open during Gay Tatchell’s remarks but in 1995, after an earlier out Pride weekend June 28 and 29 to issue mar ing attempt, described his sexuality as “a gray area" riage licenses. and said he “sought” to lead a “single, celibate life.” An Ontario provincial court legalized full A spokesman for the York archdiocese told the marriage tor same-sex couples June 10, and the Lindon gay weekly The Pink Paper-. “This issue is weddings began later that day. The federal gov déjà vu. David has made his position very clear.” ernment announced June 17 it agreed with the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams court that banning same-sex marriage is uncon has ignored conservatives’ demands that he stitutional and began the prixress of changing bkxzk John’s appointment as Reading bishop. “1 federal marriage law. was informed that Canon Jeffrey John was “We are anticipating higher demand than regarded as a highly gifted candidate, was accept usual” during Pride weekend, the city’s Brad Ross able to the diocese, that he had given explicit said in announcing the extended hours. Toronto assurances on various matters, including his per has issued about 255 marriage licenses to same- sonal circumstances and his willingness to work sex couples so far, 30 of them to U.S. citizens. loyally within the framework of dixrtrine and dis -5- cipline as expressed in ‘Issues in Human Sexual ity,’ ” the Anglican leader said June 23. he gay children’s Ixxiks Asha’s Murns, Belin da's Bouquet and One Dad, Two Dads, Anglican teaching allows same-sex partner Brown Dads, Blue Dads will remain banned from ships among church members but requires gay Conservatives claim the promotion of openly kindergarten and first-grade classrooms in Sur priests to not have sex. Heterosexual priests are gay York, England, Archbishop David Hope rey, British Columbia, a suburb of Vancouver. not required to be celibate. threatens the very existence of the Anglican The schixil board made the decision June 13 Communion despite a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in PARIS December 2002 that the board had erred in UNITED KINGDOM he French polling company 1FOP says the banning the Ixxiks based on religious objections. nation is becoming increasingly gay-friendly. he Gay Police Asstxriation asked every In rebanning the books, the board claimed police force in England, Scotland and About 61 percent of people wouldn’t mind if they are inappropriate not because they pro Wales to allow gay officers to march in uniform their child turned out gay, up from 41 percent in London’s Gay Pride parade this year and 32 of eight years ago. About 55 percent of those ques mote sin but because of problems with gram mar, punctuation, continuity and other mat them said OK, Glasgow’s Daily Record reported tioned think same-sex couples should be ters. “The spelling of‘favourite’ is inconsistent, allowed to marry, though only 41 percent think June 20. A total of 11 forces in England and switching from the Canadian to the Ameri Wales said no, and every police force in Scot they should he allowed to adopt children. A little more than 1,000 people were sur can,” board chairwoman Mary Polak said of land rejected the idea. A spokesman for the Association of Chief veyed. Young people polled dramatically more one book, according to a Canadian Broadcast ing Corp, report. pro-gay than retirees. Police Officers of Scotland said the request would have been honored if the parade were CHINA KYRGYZSTAN held in Scotland, but, “Any Scottish officer esearchers spoke with 481 men who have ay men in Bishkek, capital of the former wearing a police uniform in England would be sex with men in Beijing and found that presenting himself as an officer with full pow Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, are battling two-thirds of them were married to women. ers." A police association spokesman branded corrupt cops. The interviews took place at bars, cruisy According to the Institute for War and Peace the decision “institutionally homophobic." Reporting, police officers are routinely demand parks and bathhouses. A total of 15 of the men -3- ing hush money from gay men who place per tested HIV-positive, half acknowledged having unprotected sex with men in the previous six he second-ranking bishop in the Anglican sonal ads on the Internet or in the newspaper months, and a quarter acknowledged having church—York, England, Archbishop David Blits Info. Victims say they have been lured to unprotected sex with women in that periixL Hope—was outed Jan. 23 by Britain’s best- apartments, interrogated, beaten, tortured and Lead researcher Kyung-Hee Choi of the known gay activist, Peter Tatchell. “It is hypo forced to turn over about $50 to prevent being Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at Uni outed to their families and employers. critical for homophobes within the Anglican Vladimir Tyupin, head of the kxzal gay group versity of California in San Francisco said the Communion to tolerate Archbishop David findings mean some Chinese women who oth Oasis, said a big part of the problem is that Hope but not Canon Jeffrey John,” Tatchell said. erwise would be at low risk for HIV infection police officers are not paid enough to live on. John recently was named bishop of Reading, in Interior Ministry Lt. Col. Baish Ibraev acknowl have a high risk via their bisexual husbands. southeast England. The appointment threatens to tear apart the Church of England and the world edged that the problem probably exists but said The study appears in the British medical jour most Bishkek cops do not blackmail gays. nal The Lancet. jrn wide Anglican Communion because he is openly gay and lives with his longtime lover, although he AUSTRALIA Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported has said they no longer have sex. Anglican conser ustralian actress Portia de Rossi, who f(rr the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s vatives are so horrified by the decision, made by played Nelle Porter on television’s Ally degree m journalism from Drake University and the bishop of Oxford, that they predict the very McBeal, will marry her girlfriend, Francesca started his career as a radio reporter. existence of the Anglican Communion is at stake. 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