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Members of the British gay direct-action
group OutRage joined a 100,000-strong anti
war rally March 19 in London.
The group believes the United States and
the United Kingdom should set a timetable for
withdrawal of troops from Iraq—but take care
not to leave so quickly that Islamic fundamen
talists or loyalists of Saddam Hussein are able to
seize power.
“If the Saddamites or Islamists won power, it
would be disastrous for democracy and human
rights in Iraq,” said OutRage’s Peter Tatchell.
“Women and gay people would suffer terrible
persecution. The biggest danger to Iraqi free
dom right now is the imposition of a theocratic
state, along the lines of neighboring Iran, where
an estimated 4,000 lesbians and gays have been
executed since the ayatollahs seized power in
1979.... The Islamist parties in Iraq are pressing
for the introduction of an Islamic constitution
and Shariah law, which would result in the exe
cution of gay people and women who have sex
outside marriage.”
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A British lesbian couple married in Canada
is demanding that the’United Kingdom recog
nize their marriage, Londons The Pink Paper
reported March 17. Celia Kitzinger and Sue
Wilkinson have filed a complaint under the
Human Rights Act.
Britain routinely recognizes foreign mar
riages, but officials have said the women’s mar
riage will be recognized only as a civil partner
ship, after Britain’s civil partnership law comes
into effect in December. The couple’s lawyer,
Karon Monaghan, said that’s not acceptable
because civil partners will not receive all the
rights of matrimony.
S cottish E piscopal C hurch OK s
S exually A ctive G ay P riests
Tlie Scottish Episcopal Church said March 22
that it has no ban on sexually active gay priests.
The church is part of the worldwide Angli
can Communion, which does have such a ban,
though national churches and kx:al dioceses are
somewhat free to set their own policies.
The Scottish church’s College of Bishops
said it has “never regarded the fact that some
one was in a close relationship with a member
of the same sex as in itself constituting a bar to
the exercise of an ordained ministry.” ’
Some dioceses in the U.S. Episcopal Church
and the Anglican Church of Canada have
ordained noncelibate gay priests and blessed gay
unions, and the Diocese of New Hampshire has
an openly gay bishop who is in a relationship
with a man.
But, as a result, Anglican leaders recently
urged the U.S. and Canadian churches to with
draw from the Anglican Consultative Council,
a key governing body of the communion.
In the same statement, the Scottish bishops
disagreed with that move.
“As a church we are much indebted in our
life both to a significant presence of persons of
homosexual orientation, and also those whose
theology and stance would be critical of atti
tudes to sexuality other than abstinence outside
marriage. We rejoice in both,” they said.
H ungarian P olitician C omes O ut
A veteran party leader in Hungary’s govern
ing coalition, Free Democrat Klara Ungar, came
out March 10 on the television talk show Struve.
“It is simpler for me to say that I am homo
sexual rather than having others saying this to
me,” the 46-year-old said. A former member of
Parliament, Ungar now serves on the Free
Dem<.x:rats’ management committee and is a
party spokeswoman.
C hief C onstable
A pologizes for S lur
The chief constable of North Wales apolo
gized for calling gays “queer,” the British Broad
casting Corp, reported March 12.
Richard Brunstrom used the word during an
internal department meeting, was challenged on
it by one of his officers and immediately apolo
gized, the report said. The Gay Police Ass<x:ia-
tion said it was “shocked and disappointed” at
his “abusive and insulting language.”
“His Words will have affected the confidence
that his lesbian and gay staff and the gay com
munities in North Wales he serves have in him,”
the
group
said.
“He
should act
quickly
to
demonstrate
that
this
error of judg
ment is not
indicative of
a homopho
bic culture
within his Constable Richard Brunstrom is
force.”
in hot water for using the word
"queer," and not in a good way.
MIDEAST/AFRIC A
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Saudi Arabian police arrested 110 men at a
“gay wedding” party in Jeddah, the Al-Wifaq
Web site reported March 17.
Security forces allegedly raided a wedding
hall after receiving a tip and found the men
dancing and “behaving like women.” The
report said 77 of the men used influential con
nections to secure their release, while 33
appeared in coifft March 16 to face charges.
Under Saudi law, gay sex can be punished
with flogging, imprisonment or death.
I sraeli A ttorney G eneral
O rders P artner B enefits
Israeli Attorney General Menachem Mazuz
ordered the National Insurance Institute to
begin paying survivor benefits to same-sex part
ners March 15.
The decision came in response to a lawsuit
filed by Giora Raz, who quit working to care for
his cancer-stricken partner of 23 years, a former
employee of El Al Israel Airlines. Mazuz’s ruling
also will apply to areas such as work accident
insurance, childbirth allowances and disability
pensions.
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This year’s Gay Pride festivities in Cape
Town, South Africa, included a pub crawl by
white gays in the nearby black townships, the
British Broadcasting Corp, reported March 8.
Five minibuses of gay white folks visited three
gay-friendly
“shebeens" in
the townships.
“Being black
and gay is a very
different place
to being white
and gay in Cape
Town,”
said
Juanita Jacobs,
one of the Pride
organizers. “This
year we decided
to take Pride
into the town
ships to engen
der understand
ing.... A lot of
people
don’t
Politician Klara Ungar is out
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out
to
and proud in Hungary.