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n what was called the worlds
largest same-sex commitment
ceremony, some 300 gay and les
bian couples got hitched Feb. 15 at
Melbourne's Midsumma Gay and
Lesbian Festival, the Australian
Associated Press reported. Organ
izers said they hoped to highlight
the federal government’s refusal to
recognize same-sex relationships.
“Federally, we do not exist,”
Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
convener David McCarthy told
the AAP. “We are second-class cit
izens, and we are treated as such.”
Australian Prime Minister
John Howard has repeatedly
denounced same-sex marriage.
“I don’t support gay marriages
being given the same legal and
community status as a traditional
marriage,” he said Dec. 8. “I
believe traditional marriage is
one of the benchmark institu
tions of our society, and I hold
that view very strongly. Even if
you produced an opinion poll
tomorrow that showed me 80
percent of the Australian com
The world's largest same-sex commitment ceremony was held munity disagreed with me, I
Feb. 15 at Melbourne’s Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Festival would still hold that view.”
Last August, Howard assert
A U S TR A L IA
ed, “Marriage, as we understand it in our society,
hree out of four voters between 18 and 35
is about children: having children, raising them,
years old in the Australian state of West providing for the survival of the species.”
ern Australia, where Perth is located, support
equal recognition of same-sex relationships, a
N EW Z E A LA N D
poll has found.
civil union bill will be introduced in Par
But the Westpoll survey saw support plummet
liament shortly, the New Zealand Press
to 43 percent among people 36 and older, The Ass(x:iation reported Feb. 8. It would grant cou
West Australian newspaper reported. According
ples most of the rights of matrimony.
to pollster Keith Patterson, older voters probably
To build momentum for the bill, six gay cou
have had less exposure to queers.
ples got hitched in a commitment ceremony
“Gay people in older age groups are more like before 10,000 spectators at Auckland’s Big Gay
ly to have repressed their sexuality than gays in Out festival Feb. 7 in Coyle Park.
the under-35 age group,” he said. “Older people
The measure has the backing of Prime Min
are therefore less likely to
ister Helen Clark. “I think a
knowingly have friends who
majority [vote] is there for
are gay and would he view
it,” she told festivalgoers.
ing the great gay revolution
at somewhat more of a dis
C A M B O D IA
tance than would their
amhodia’s King Noro-
younger counterparts.”
✓ dom Sihanouk said
The poll also found
Feh. 20 that same-sex cou
that political conserva
ples should he allowed to get
tives and people who live
married. Writing on his
in “the hush” are less
Web site after watching
Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk
gay-supportive than liber
news reports from San Fran
supports same-sex marriage
als and city dwellers.
cisco, the monarch said, “1
think (the Cambodian government] should
allow marriage between man and man or
he Legislative Assembly of Australia’s Capi between woman and woman.”
tal Territory voted 11 -6 to approve adoption
by same-sex couples Feh. 10. The state of Western
CANADA
Australia, where Perth is located, and the island
anada’s Supreme Court decided Feb. 20 to
state of Tasmania also allow gay couples to adopt.
postpone its hearings on same-sex marriage
Prime Minister John Howard denounced the
until October.
trend Feh. 14.
Same-sex marriage was legalized by provin
"I don’t support gay adoptions at all,” he said.
cial court orders in Ontario and British Colum
“1 respect people’s choices about their own
bia last summer, and weddings began taking
lifestyles— that’s their right, and I don’t seek to place immediately. Thousands have occurred.
discriminate against them— hut I have a view
The federal government said it agreed with the
that gay adoption goes against what the com rulings by the provinces’ highest courts and would
munity regards as the traditional family forma intnxluce legislation to open up marriage nation
tion, and that is a mother and a father.
wide. But the feds also sent three procedural ques
“ I think (gay adoption] sends the wrong sig tions to the Canadian Supreme Court. Then, in
nal,” Howard said. “I do not believe changes of January, the government added a fourth question.
this nature will strengthen family life. 1 think
That question caused the postponement.
they send the signal that basically family life
Canada’s Parliament will not consider legis-
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