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IN T E R N A T IO N A L
gay or bisexual compared with 1.9 percent of
f ” he European Council voted June 18 in favor
undreds of thousands of people turned out
those 35 to 44 years old and 1.2 percent of peo­
JL of a new European Constitution that pro­
June 26 for Berlins Gay Pride parade, led
ple 45 to 59 years old.
hibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.
by gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit. T he procession,
Alleged violators would face the European
which snaked from trendy Kurfurstendamm
boulevard to the landmark Victory Column, fea­ Court of Justice. The constitution, which must
first be ratified by the 25 Euro[*ean U nion mem­
tured 53 floats.
Some 700,000 people turned out for Paris’ ber nations, would enter into force in 2007.
parade the same day. Marchers stepped off from
Riccardo G ottardi said the International
the Left Bank and proceeded to the Bastille
Lesbian and Gay Association “was a little sur­
site, declaring “Enough Hypocrisy, Equality
prised but pleased with the outcome of this
Now.” Gay Mayor Bertrand Delanoë led the
council. The text offers more guarantees for the
procession, which featured 60 floats. France is protection of human rights and equality for
LGBT people. It is a first important step to build
in the midst of a fierce same-sex marriage
debate following Bègles Mayor Noël M anières
a u n io n ...th at guarantees the basic rights of
every citizen.”
decision to officiate at the wedding of a male
couple June 5. He was suspended for a m onth
EU law is made chiefly by the Council of
Ministers. It receives instructions from the Euro­
for his allegedly illegal action. Polls indicate
two-thirds of French people approve of same-
pean Council, which is composed of the EU
member nations’ heads of state or government.
sex marriage.
U nder heavy police protection, about 300
IN D IA
people marched June 19 during the third Gay
Pride parade in Zagreb, Croatia. They dem and­
ealots from the Shiv Sena party trashed
ed access to marriage and adoption. Two years
movie theaters in Mumbai (Bombay),
ago, 15 marchers were beaten up after the
Delhi, Indore, Jabalpur, Varanasi and other
parade by right-wing protesters who had heck­ cities in mid-June to halt screenings of the new
led, jeered and thrown
lesbian-themed Indi­
tear gas at them during
an film Girlfriend.
Q ueer as Folk star Sharon Gless and gay
the parade.
They broke w in­ Olympic gold medalist M ark Tew ksbury
About 90,000 peo­
dows,
destroyed
celebrate Pride C om m unity D ay w ith the
ple attended Tel Aviv’s
posters and burned
T oronto Blue Jays
seventh Pride parade
effigies, reports said.
June 26 along Ibn Gvi-
Gay activists noted
rol Street. T he theme
the film is hardly pro­
he Toronto Blue Jays major league baseball
was “Proud Families.”
lesbian because it
team celebrated gay Pride Community Day
They were addressed by
treats homosexuality
on June 25.
Mayor Ron Huldai and
as an illness.
Queer as Folk star Sharon Gless threw out the
Justice Minister Yosef
“Girlfriend reinforces
first pitch, and gay Olympic gold medalist Mark
Lapid, who promised to
all the negative stereo­ Tewksbury presented a check on behalf of the
open civil marriage to
types about lesbian and
team to Pride Toronto. The national anthems
same-sex couples.
bisexual
women,” were sung by Simone Denny, the voice behind
M exico
C ity ’s
India’s Organized Les­ the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy theme, “All
June 26 Pride parade
bian Alliance for Visi­ Things (Just Keep Getting Better).”
was 10 blocks long and
bility and Action told
The Skydome reserved a special section for
four traffic lanes wide.
the Web site Sify.com.
gays at field level along the baselines and offered
It began at the Angel
“Not only is it a cheap
a 30 percent discount to gay groups of 10 or more.
of Independence m on­
and titillation-oriented
um ent and ended at Indian fundamentalists trashed cinemas showing film masquerading as
the
Zócalo,
the the lesbian film Qirlfriend
one that’s liberal, hut it
he newest O ntario M en’s Survey found
nation’s central plaza.
portrays the minority
that 27 percent of gay men who thought
Gay parents were at the front of the march.
community in a negative light.”
they were probably HIV-negative tested positive
About 300 people marched June 27 in C al­
via saliva samples taken when they were ques­
cutta, India, despite laws that criminalize gay
CANADA
tioned. T he survey quizzed more than 5,000
sex. “We are just a small hunch of the city’s
tatistics Canada’s recent attem pt to deter­ men across the Canadian province.
largely invisible [gay] people, many of whom
mine the percentage of Canadians who are
O ther findings included: About 25 percent
are unwilling to come out of the closet,” co­ gay or bisexual failed in its task, activists said.
of those surveyed engaged in unprotected anal
organizer Rafiquel Haque Dowjah told the
Figures from the C anadian Com m unity
sex with a casual male partner at least once in
French Press Agency wire service. “T he aim of Health Survey indicate 1.3 percent of men and
the previous three months; the percentage of
the parade is to create an awareness that hom o­ 0.7 percent of women identify as gay. A nother
gay men who acknowledged harebacking at least
sexuals are not sex workers; they are as produc­ 0.6 percent of men and 0.9 percent of women
once has doubled since a similar survey was con­
tive and normal as others.”
said they are bisexual.
ducted in 1991; and 45 percent of those ques­
About 3,500 people marched June 26 dur­
A spokesperson for the national gay lobby
tioned never discuss their HIV status with casu­
ing the N ational Pride Parade in Lisbon, Por­ group Egale said that between 5 percent and 10 al sex partners. About 14 percent of those ques­
tugal. Marchers were divided into six main
percent of people are actually gay but that the
tioned said they’ve had condoms slip off, and an
groups each with its own color and theme, cor­ majority choose not to out themselves to the
equal number said they’ve had condoms break.
respondent Joâo Paulo said.
government.
Half a million turned out June 28 in Rio de
T he survey questioned 83,729 Canadians
A U S T R A L IA
Janeiro, Brazil, for the Gay Pride march from
between ages 18 and 59. It found that younger
undreds of gays and lesbians demonstrated
Copacabana Beach to Ipanema Beach. They
people are more likely to own up to their sexu­
June 26 at Sydney Town Hall Square to
demanded, among other things, passage of a ality than older folks. About 2 percent of people
protest Prime Minister John Howard’s proposed
national civil union law.
between 18 and 34 came out to questioners as
bans on same-sex marriage and adoption by samc-
In Colombia, more than 10,000 people took
part in Bogotá’s Gay Pride parade, marching 30
blocks from dow ntow n’s Bolivar Plaza to the
N ational Park. Police apprehended several
neo-Nazis who attem pted to protest the parade
despite having been denied a permit to do sly .
Bogotá Mayor Luis Eduardo Garzón addressed
ralliers,. the first time a mayor had done so.
Gays also marched in the cities of Medellin,
Cali, C úcuta and Santa Marta.
A cool million people turned out for Toron­
to ’s 24th Gay Pride parade June 27. T he theme:
“Bursting with Fruit Flavors.”
Toronto Pride was “Bursting with Fruit Flavors’
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