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Broadway NE Portland 503.493.0070 730 SW 11th Ave SW Portland 503.227.4202 betw een Yam hill and M orrison C anadian G ays W in P ension C ase The Canadian government erred in 2000 when it extended pension rights to same-sex couples hut refused to make them retroactive to the date that equality guarantees were enshrined in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Ontario’s highest court ruled Nov. 26. “Excluding many of those who were intend ed to he included is not rationally connected to the objective of the law, which is to end the dis criminatory exclusion of same-sex partners from [the Canadian Pension Plan]," the Court of Appeal declared. Equality guarantees were inserted in the charter April 17, 1985, hut the government arbitrarily chose 1998 as the start date for retroactive payments. The ruling, which could he appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, affects about 1,500 gays and lesbians and could result in payments of more than $90 million. A rgentines M arch Some 10,000 people marched in Buenos Aires’ 13th Gay Pride parade Nov. 20. “It was much more fun than I would have ever thought,” said first-timer Mariano Lago, 27. “We carried the big, big, big Pride flag for a while, then went to dance along this truck all over Avenida de Mayo.” Marié Fourie and Cecelia Bouthuys win legal The parade’s theme was “All of Society for marriage rights the Right to Diversity: Civil Unions for the Whole Country." Judge of Appeal Edwin Cameron, About 200 anti who is openly gay and openly HIV-pos gays demonstrated in itive, wrote that the definition of mar front of the Metropoli riage must he rewritten to read, “Mar tan Cathedral. riage is the union of two persons to the “We have nothing exclusion of all others for life.” against them and we didn’t come to attack The Supreme Court’s 4-1 ruling has immediate effect on the definition of them, hut we’re not going to let them take marriage, hut several marriage-related laws still need to he changed. Gay the Catholic Church,” activists said they will file legal actions one of the protesters Argentinians shake their money to speed up that prixzess. told the daily newspa per Clarin. “We have to go ahead with legal makers at Pride 2004 action to fix up those somewhat more During last year’s minor legal problems, and we foresee that with- | parade the cathedral was spray-painted with in the next 12 months or so, same-sex couples graffiti reading “Church = dictatorship,” will indeed he married,” said Evert Knoesen of “Rapist priests” and “Nazi priests.” The vandals the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project. chanted, “Here is the repression (if the Holy Inquisition.” Full same-sex marriage is legal in Belgium, the Netherlands, six Canadian provinces, one Cana- To date, civil unions have been enacted only in Buenos Aires and in the Rio Negro dian territory and the U.S. state of Massachusetts. province. N igerian C ouple M ay B e S toned Velvet/Felt Clogs AMERICAS EUROPE A Nigerian man is in custody and his rumored male lover is on the lam after Muslim B righton T argets youth reportedly forced the first man to confess D ancehall S ingers to “homosexualism,” the Vanguard newspaper The City Council of the British gay resort reported Nov. 28. Brighton and Hove urged retailers Nov. 25 to A Shariah court in Keffi issued a bench war stop selling recordings by numerous Jamaican rant for construction company supervisor Michael Ifediora Nwokoinah after businessman Mal- lam Ahdullahi Ibrahim allegedly acknowledged that the couple have been having sex “for some time,” the newspaper said. The Vanguard said Ibrahim con fessed after the youths “almost lynched” him. Tire local district head intervened to halt the lynch ing and turned Ibrahim over to police. Nwokomah was at work and went into hiding when he heard what had happened, the report said. Trial will he delayed until the two men can he tried together, the paper said. Punishment is death by Brighton Pride 2004 (Crystal Palace in the background) stoning.
