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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-
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