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Affairs, at a regularly scheduled meeting March 31 A significant chunk of Spanish-language pro and sent it to Parliament for a first reading. gramming seen in the United States is produced The hill addresses issues such as housing, by Televisa—airing on the Univision network. “This is an important first step in what we ' inheritance, property, joint income, access to health information and hospital visitation. If it hope will be a productive collaboration passes, additional laws will be changed to between Televisa and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, embrace same-sex relationships, government transgender community,” said Televisa general programming director Xavier Labrada. officials said. GLAAD’s people of color media director, 1 Monica Taher, said, “Spanish-language media B ulgaria G ets G ay R adio have often portrayed LGBT people in a sensa- Bulgaria’s first gay radio program, Gemini, tionalistic and stereotyped manner.” has launched on Radio NET, an over-the-air broadcaster. Past and future topics of discussion include discrimination, social isolation, anti-gay vio G ay H arassment I ncreases lence, family, school, love, partnerships, reli in C openhagen gion, the armed forces, prostitution, media cov Gays and lesbians in Copenhagen, one of erage, online dating, sports and the arts. the world’s gay-friendliest cities, are reporting increased homophobic harassment, The Copen E uro P ride H eads to O slo hagen Post said April 11. EuroPride, the annual pan-European queer A survey by rhe National Association of blowout, heads to Oslo, Norway, this year. Gays and Lesbians found that 90 percent of Eleven days of music, art, stage, film, literary, respondents have experienced verbal abuse or party and religious events will be centered physical violence based on their sexuality. around the June 25 Pride parade. It will be the Organized groups of attackers apparently first time EuroPride has been held in a country have begun lying in wait outside gay bars and in that is not a member of the European Union. cruisy parks. Gay men report increased trouble ! More than 50,000 visitors are expected. For on Studiestraede street and in 0rstedspark. Les- ! more information visit www.europride.no. hians are having trouble at RSdhusplads square. : “There are more attacks, and they’ve GLBT F amilies C onference in P aris become more violent,” LBL consultant Kim The Third International Conference on Foss told the daily newspaper metroXpress. LGBT Families will take place Oct. 25 and 26 in Paris. G ays P rotest at C harles Attendees will include researchers, academics, and C amilla ’ s W edding judges, social workers, lawyers and others. Members of the London direct-action group The conference is organized by the Associa OutRage staged a pro-same-sex-marriage tion of Gay and Lesbian Parents and Future Par protest April 9 outside the wedding of Prince ents. It has received support from several major Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles. French research institutes. The 27th European conference of the Inter national Lesbian and Gay Association will be held in Paris simultaneously. For more informa tion visit www.conference-apgl.org. EUROPE ONLINE SAVER hians and gays? The new same-sex civil partner ships law is not legal equality.” ...Find out how you con enroll without (hanging your monthly mortgage and with no out-of-pocket expense! 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Three of the protesters were briefly detained under the Terrorism Act. “Lord Falconer justified the Charles and Camilla wedding on the grounds that the Human Rights Act says everyone is entitled to marry,” said OutRage’s Peter Tatchell. “Why, then, is his government refusing to allow same- sex couples to get married?" Protester Brett Lock added: “If the govern ment and the church can engineer the law to Kursad Kahramanoglu condemns Joseph allow Charles and Camilla to marry, why can’t 1 Ratzinger's appointment as pope, citing his they amend the law to legalize marriage for les- I virulent homophobia.
