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January 23.2004^ vu news U N ITE D K IN G D O M he European Court of Justice said Jan. 7 that transsexuals must have equal access to marriage and pension rights. The court was responding to a request for advice from Britain’s Court of Appeal in a case where a woman is contesting her partner’s ineligibility to apply for a widower’s pension. The case now faces further consideration in England hut could soon become irrelevant there, because legislation to allow transsexuals to change their birth certificates and marry is moving through the House of Lords. The Euro court’s opinion applies to the other 14 European Union nations as well. In 2002, the European Court of Human Rights— the court of final appeal for citizens of the 45 nations that make up the Council of Europe— also ruled in favor of transsexuals’ right to marry. T ritain’s Sky T V will reportedly pay about $925,000 each to six men who threatened to sue over their participation in a reality show in which they did not know the woman they were courting was a transsexual. The program, There’s Something About Miri am, was postponed after the men issued their threat but now reportedly will he aired. The suitors said they were traumatized and devastat ed upon learning they had kissed and cuddled a woman who used to be a man. They alleged breach of contract, deceit, per sonal injury and sexual assault. B he chairman of the United Kingdom’s Gay Police Association, Inspector Paul Cahill, was named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth IPs new year’s honors list. The award recognizes his “services to diver sity in the police and the wider community.” Another M BE went to A nne Patrizio, 63, who runs the Parents Enquiry Scotland hot line for people with gay, lesbian, bi or trans children. T TH E N E TH E R L A N D S his return is based on his sex, gender or sexual preference,” according to the official notes attached to it. The bill now moves to the Senate. w ig s M ilitary M eat Stories by Tanner R U S S IA i ussia has a i new gay mag azine, Kvir (Queer). It launched in August and distrib utes 15,000 copies in clubs, saunas and bookstores from Moscow to Vladi vostok. All of Rus sia’s other gay mag azines had gone out Russia’s new gay magazine, of business. Advertisers in Kvir (Queer), Ls struggling clude dentists as financially well as travel, hair- removal and security companies, but the publi cation is still losing money, The Moscow Times reported. Surveys indicate that the typical Kvir reader is between 30 and 35, has an above- average income and is 20 percent more likely than the average Russian to have a car, apart ment and credit card. The magazine emerged from the Gay.ru Web site founded by Ed Mishin, who also has set up a small gay center. “When people come to {the center’s) support group, they often say in the feedback session that the most important thing that they got out of the group was the realization that it’s possible to be gay and normal,” he told the Times. “They say, ‘I saw normal people, and it just astounded me.’ ” R C H IN A he first person in China to have a sex- reassignment operation was legally married Dec. 30. “A-gang,” 29, who used to be a woman but is now a man, married “Xiaoli” in the southwest ern city of Chengdu, The Chengdu Commercial Daily reported. The couple have lived together for three years, and A-gang underwent surgery last May in Shenzhen. He received a new identity card and residence record, reflecting his new gender, shortly thereafter. “All these years, I’ve yearned for love but never imagined I would taste it,” he told the Daily. “And when I finally met Xiaoli, I didn’t dare think about marriage. I’m at a loss for words now that I’ve finally fulfilled both my wishes.” gift iertiffcates availa -h - -<!v ' breast forms, bras & more! • Cinchers • Gaffs • Padded Panties trans friendly WWW.Booksurge.com susan johnson owner/fitter 2041 ne burnside, gresham 503/491-5110 ~ www.shopitsme.com Know Someone With a Drug or Alcohol Problem? Free, confidential, statewide telephone assistance and crisis intervention for alcohol and drug problems Call the HelpLine [¡OREGON 800-923-HELP I IPARÍNLRSHIP wwworpartnership.org *1 We keep it in the fam ily. ju s tm m does NOT sell any names, addresses or phone numbers to any group, organization or business. All your contact information remains confidential T he Netherlands’ national gay organization, C O C , says police and local officials have stepped up harassment of men who frequent public cruising areas, Expatica.com reported Jan. 7. Some have been fined for various viola tions of the law. “The police are no longer your best friend,” C O C chairman Henk Beerten said. He suggested the crack down will make men who IN D O N E S IA have sex with men in parks movie that shows oral and nature areas less likely to sex in a public toilet report anti-gay attacks in and a passionate gay kiss those locations. Dutch activist Henk Beerten fears a made it past Indonesian cen sors and has become a box T R IN ID A D cruising crackdown will discourage office hit. Ansan! is a satirical A N D TO B A G O gay men from reporting hate crimes comedy that mocks the he Caribbean nation of lifestyles of Jakarta’s rich professionals. Trinidad and Tobago, which bans male- “It is a breakthrough,” gay activist Dede male sex, has nonetheless passed a bill that pro Oetomo said in interviews with The Associated tects gay and transgender people, Trinidad 6? Press and Reuters. “The urban young are now Tobago Newsday reported Jan. 11. willing to accept gays. There is a sense of free TTe House of Representatives included “gen dom to talk about it now.” der or sexual preference” among the protected Director Nia diNata confessed: “I was a bit categories in a measure that restricts when some nervous but was elated when the censor boards one can be extradited to another nation to face lOK’d the kiss]. I and my friends wanted to criminal charges. The law would apply to crimes break new ground.” JH in other nations that are punished with death or imprisonment for more than one year. 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