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20^BM Kit-xiy 2.2004 THERE ARE MORE POSITIVE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAN HIV. ITOTTFl news FRANCE cumstances, there is no way that anybody french Interior Minister should be allowed to discriminate or prevent same-sex marriage.” Dominique de Villepin The federal Parliament is expected to pass suspended Mayor Noel Paulo for the city’s eighth Gay legislation within the next year to open up mar Mamère of the Bordeaux Pride parade June 13, which riage in the rest of the nation. Belgium, the suburb of Bègles for one would make it the worlds Netherlands and the U.S. state of Massachusetts month June 15 to punish largest Gay Pride celebration. him for performing the mar also let gay couples marry. Sao Paulo is South Amer riage of a gay couple. ica’s largest city and boasts UNITED KINGDOM France has a partnership about 85 gay bars and restau 66-year-old concert pianist was jailed law for same-sex couples but rants. Mayor Marta Suplicy June 2 in London for propositioning via does not allow them to gave a speech to kick off the e-mail a Sri Lankan cop posing as a 15-year-old marry. Villepin said Mamère march, which featured 24 male prostitute, The Guardian reported. Brian gravely misunderstood his sound trucks and a 160-foot Parnell will spend two years behind bars for duties and “ willingly aggra rainbow flag. Sound trucks blast techno-pop attempting to incite an underage male to com Some marchers called for and disco music during the world’s vated the fault he commit mit buggery and gross indecency. ted” by repeatedly publicizing the legalization of same-sex largest Gay Pride celebration Parnell posted a request for a young boy in a his plan to marry the couple marriage. A single Brazilian June 13 in Sâo Paulo, Brazil Sri Lankan gay teen chat room prior to traveling and refusing to back down state, Rio Grande do Sul, to the island in October 2002. He promised a after warnings from the national government offers civil unions. A national civil union bill “good time in bed.” that same-sex marriage is illegal. has been stalled in Congress for years. The Sri Lankan National Child Protection Prosecutors have moved to annul the mar Health Ministry employees distributed Authority intercepted the posting, and the riage of shop worker Bertrand Charpentier, 31, 50,000 condoms during the parade, reports said. police agent then provoked Parnell into sending and nurse Stéphane Chapin, 34. The couple’s increasingly explicit e-mails and photos. Once lawyer said they plan to fight back, all the way SWITZERLAND in Sri Lanka, Parnell did not attempt to actual to the European Court of Human Rights. witzerland’s Parliament has given final ly meet the “boy.” approval to a gay partnership law that CANADA U.K. police can pursue British citizens sus reportedly will include all marriage rights except pected of committing sex crimes abroad under ancouver, British Columbia, City Councilor for access to adoption, in vitro fertilization and the 1996 Sexual Offenses Act. A similar law Tim Stevenson married his partner of 22 marriage itself. years, Gary Patterson, June 15. The gay politician exists in the United States. However, the small, right-wing Federal Democratic Union party has promised to collect said he felt it was important tc tie the knot now •s* in case the political winds shift. enough signatures to force a national voters’ ref lan Turing, the gay man who is considered Full same-sex marriage is allowed in the erendum on the measure. Gay groups said they the “father" of the modem computer, was provinces of British Columbia, are hopeful the law will not honored with a plaque erected outside his Quebec and Ontario, where, be overturned. Wilmslow, England, home June 7, the 50th during the past 14 months, top Full same-sex marriage is anniversary of his suicide. allowed in Belgium; the courts declared the opposite-sex According to the British Broadcasting Corp., Netherlands; the Canadian definition of marriage unconsti Turing ’s idea of creating a machine to turn provinces of British Colum tutional. The federal govern bia, Ontario and Quebec; ment favors opening up the insti thought processes into binary numbers was one of the key turning points in the history of the and the U.S. state of Massa tution nationwide. computer. He killed himself by eating a cyanide- chusetts. Partnership laws -5- laced apple two years after being convicted of are on the books in Den mark, Finland, France, Ger he far northern Canadian ter homosexuality and agreeing to a year of estrogen injections to curb his libido. ritory of Nunavut, population many, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the 29,384, saw hundreds turn out for a Brazilian state of Rio Gay Pride celebration June 13 in Grande do Sul and the U.S. the capital city of Iqaluit, which states of California, Hawaii, City Councilor Tim Stevenson has a population of 6,000. New Jersey and Vermont. married his partner June 15 in The Pride and Friends of Gay couples also have Vancouver, British Columbia Pride picnic was so well-attended access to some spousal that organizers nearly ran out of rights in Argentina, Australia, Austria, else meat to barbecue, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. where in Brazil, Hungary, Israel, New Zealand, North News said. Attendance has doubled Portugal, South Africa, Spain and the United annually for the past four years. Kingdom. Territorial Premier Paul Okalik joined the festivities. “It’s been a struggle, but I’m very AUSTRALIA proud of my fellow Nunavummiut that were rime Minister John Howard’s proposed bans with us during a difficult time in trying to get our on same-sex marriage and adoption of foreign human rights legislation, which recognizes babies by gay couples passed Australia’s lower everyone’s rights," he said. house June 17 and now move to the Senate. The territory extended anti-discrimination pro “This is merely affirming what people under tections to gays and lesbians last November after a stand to be the law,” Attorney General Philip 10-8 vote by the Legislative Assembly. It was the Ruddock said. “We are of the view that people last Canadian province or territory to do so. can have their relationships, it’s just that they Nunavut was created in a split from the can’t have their relationships ascribed the char Northwest Territories in 1999, settling the Alan Turing is considered the “father” of the acteristic of marriage when marriage is a rela largest land claims dispute ever between native modem computer tionship between a man and a woman.” peoples and the Canadian government. According to a new SBS World News survey of 1,200 adults, 38 percent of Australians TAIWAN approve of same-sex marriage and 44 percent anada will not reverse course on same-sex Taiwanese man has been sent to prison for ✓ marriage, Prime Minister Paul Martin said oppose it. About 18 percent of those questioned seven years for blackmailing gay men he met lacked an opinion. June 4- During the past year, the highest courts on the Internet, The Taipei Times reported June 11. Younger people polled more gay-friendly. in the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario Chou Ming-teh, 43, blackmailed more than and Quebec forced legalization of same-sex mar About 55 percent of those between 18 and 34 100 men he met in chat rooms. He would find favor same-sex marriage, as do 43 percent of riage and thousands of Canadian and foreign gay out their names and where they worked, then those between 35 and 49. Only 23 percent of couples have tied the knot. demand money not to out them to their people older than 50 want to see same-sex mar “Three of the highest courts in the land have employers, police said. said that discrimination on the grounds of sex in riage legalized. Chou’s victims included teachers, military terms of the definition of marriage is against the officers and bank managers. He was arrested Women (47 percent) are much more likely Charter of Rights," Martin said. “It is absolutely to approve of same-sex marriage than men (29 after a police officer went undercover online to a question of human rights, and under those cir entrap him. percent). BRAZIL police said 1.1 million peo- I pie 1 tumed out in Sao I A You don't give up, we don't give up. For more than 20 years scientists have been discovering and developing treatments for HIV and AIDS. The fight continues. Now, more intenseley than ever, and we need your help. 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