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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
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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
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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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