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F T ïï^ m n e w s N u l l I)« I'M \ « » r l l*\\ e s t \ i » r t Inv e s t ' S« > Northwest Electrolysis have taken a large step in the constant struggle to have our relationships recog nized as equal to heterosexual Canadians." Kr he Gay Pride parade in Ottawa had a new twist July 13— legally married same-sex couples. About 10,000 specta tors cheered the newlyweds. O ntario’s highest court forced legaliza tion of same-sex marriage June 10. British Colum bia’s highest court followed suit July 8. The federal government has thrown in the towel and is in the process of legal izing full same-sex marriage nationwide. T he city of Ottawa’s float was one of the parade’s largest. It displayed a huge banner that read, “Sex in the City: Don’t Forget to Wrap It Up.” City workers distributed con doms to spectators as the float moved along. N o i l Invest T • Trans Friendly • Private Office • Since 1988 5 0 3 -2 7 4 1466 C o r n e r o f N W 2 3 r d & Q u im b y Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong (right, with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) has started appointing queers to fill sensitive government positions AUSTRALIA elegates to the national convention of Australia’s third-largest religious denom i nation, the U niting Church, voted July 17 to allow ordination of gay ministers who are sexu ally active. About 75 percent of the delegates favored the policy change, following two days of heated debate. Conservatives said the decision will lead to a mass exodus from the 300,000-member church. T he U niting C hurch was formed in 1977 through the merger of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches. About 1.3 million Australians claim an association with the denomination. D SWEDEN n HIV-positive Swedish man who had unprotected sex with nine men without revealing his status was sent to prison for four years July 18. T he 27-year-old was convicted of attempted aggravated assault and ordered to pay about $75,000 to his casual and long-term sex part ners. N one of them contracted HIV. T he man claimed he thought he was unable to transmit the virus because treatm ent had made his viral load undetectable. Swedish law requires HIV carriers to inform sexual partners of their condition prior to having sex. A SINGAPORE ingapore has quietly begun welcoming gays into government jobs, including those con sidered the most sensitive, Prime Minister G oh C hok Tong told Time magazine June 30. He said the policy change was inspired in part by a desire not to exclude talented gay foreigners ffom immigrating. But the move is not being trum peted in order to keep from alarming conservatives. “Let it evolve, and in time the population will understand that some people are bom that way,” G oh said. “We are bom this way and they are bom that way, but they are like you and me.” S HUNGARY bout 4,000 people marched in Budapest’s Gay Pride parade July 6. Police wearing riot gear protected the marchers from neo-Nazis “who formed a marauding throng at the base of Erzsebet hid” bridge, The Budapest Sun said. Mayor G3bor Demszky attended the Pride launch event the previcxis evening at the Muvesz Cinema complex. He described Budapest as a beacon of tolerance and fraternity. A NEW ZEALAND ew Zealand’s government is preparing a civil union bill under which gay and straight couples will be able to register their rela tionships and obtain matrimonial rights. Some activists have welcomed the bill, while others have denounced it as a half-measure that N 816 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 Ph/Fx: (503) 295-7965 Jean R app, R N , LE, C P E deprives gays of equal access to marriage. Addition al bills will rework more than 100 laws that dis criminate against same-sex couples, officials said. -8- ew Zealand’s Parliament legalized prostitu tion June 25 by a vote of 60-59. T he law came into force in early July. Li censed brothels will oper ate under public health and employment laws. T he author of the repeal legislation, gay MP Tim Barnett, called the prostitution ban “the last significant vestige of Vic torian moral law [in] the New Zealand statute Tim Barnett Ixxik." More than half of the 354 New Zealanders arrested for prostitution in the past five years were men. N JAPAN apan’s House of Representatives unanimous ly passed a law July 10 that will allow certain transsexuals to change their gender in all-impor tant “family registry” documents. T he measure will take effect in one year. According to The Japan Times, the law permits people to change their registration if they have been diagnosed by two doctors as having a differ ent psychological makeup ffom their biological sex and a desire to live as the opposite gender physically and socially. Applicants must be single and childless and no longer have functioning reproductive organs due to sex-change surgery. The documentation change will eliminate problems that transsexuals face in such matters as voting and filling out job applications, the Times said. Phone ^ 503 274-9936 ! K KAREN M. 6 WEIGERT, M D O bstétrica and Gynecology pa x J FRANCE ormer film actress and sex symbol Brigitte Bardot says she’s n o t anti-gay despite inflammatory statem ents in her new Kx>k. “A part from my husband— who maybe will cross over one day as well— I am entirely sur rounded by homos,” the 68-year-old told the French gay magazine Tribumove July 11. “Homosexuals are for me hum an beings like any other with their qualities and their faults. I count some of them as my best friends.” Bardot angered some gays with a passage in her new Nx>k, A Cry in the Silence. It said, “They jiggle their bottoms, put their little fin gers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through.” j H F Compiled by R ex Wcx.'KNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1985. 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