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» juiy 15. 2005 20 TOTffinews OvcHfrv Cycle ¿/Works I nternational P ride A round the P lanet Profesional Service Comfortable Bikeo Recumbent^ a Specialty! (COME SEE WHY!) Open Tuesdax-Sunday 2 30-772 3 2025 SI. Hawthorne gpF* ■ ■ W’: 4L £ We test because we matter. Do you know your status? “We’re in the streets to obtain equality and the respect of society,” Jesús Medina, president of Lambda Alliance, told the newspaper Ultimas Noticias. “This is a cause similar to ones in the “Early in the day, we noticed a substantial police presence at our hotel, with two large blue police vans filled with four anned police at each entrance,” said chorus executive director Steve Smith. “Chorus members were advised to stay in the hotel. “Although the concert hall was only four blocks away, we were required to be transported to the concert in buses that received police escort. At the hall, I saw more than 25 armed policemen forming a secure path to the concert hall from the street. Five more vans with obvious riot gear were parked next to the hall.” As the singers entered the building, protest ers called them pedophiles and disease carriers. But inside the hall, the chorus received numerous standing ovations. “The chorus had to re-enter the stage twice for bows after the con cert,” Smith said. “Literally hundreds of people were visibly in tears.” About 500 people marched in the first large- scale Gay Pride parade in Athens, Greece. “The only way to safeguard our rights is for everyone to understand that homosexuali ty is a reality and that people should not behave as if we don’t exist,” marcher Maria Gouma told The Scotsman newspaper. About 300,000 people turned out for Pride in Paris. The pnxzession snaked from the Montparnasse train station to the Bastille. The parade was so massive that some marchers waited hours to step off from the Left Bank starting point. About 250 people marched in Kolkata (Calcutta), India, “dressed in gaudy, revealing clothes,” said Rediff.com. Police made no effort to halt the parade even though homosexuality is illegal. “We want to tell the world we exist,” said Teesta, a 27-year-old student. More than 125,000 people turned out M uslims D isrupt for Toronto’s 25th parade—including T ransvestite P ageant Police Chief Bill Blair. According to About 10 members of Indonesia’s Islamic CTV.ca, “The parade showcased every Defenders’ Front barged into a Jakarta nightclub thing from bronzed, scantily clad dancers during the Miss Transvestite pageant June 28. gyrating on floats to pounding dance music They left after 20 minutes, when pageant organ to the more sedate groups, like izers agreed to wrap up the contest earlier than Grandparents for Gays and Lesbians.” planned. Mayor David Miller told the Canadian “We were all traumatized. They said we were Broadcasting Corp.: “To me, it sums up so immoral, but God created us this way,” organiz much of what Toronto is about. Everyone’s er Megi Megawati told The Associated Press. welcome here, everyone’s respected. We’re Referring to his city’s Pride festival, Toronto Mayor very proud we’re the place where same-sex N ew Z ealand C ivil U nions David Miller told the CBC, “Everyone is welcome here. marriage, the first one [in Canada], was S low to C atch O n performed.” Members of the Ontario Only 56 couples have tied the knot since Provincial Police marched for the first time, past to end racial discrimination and for New Zealand’s comprehensive civil union law including two female officers holding hands, the women’s rights to work and vote.” came into force April 26—23 female couples, 23 CBC said. male couples and 10 heterosexual couples. About 4,000 people marched in Edinburgh, About 1,700 straight couples get married in Scotland—from Waverley Station, down New Zealand each month, reported Stuff.co.nz. Princes Street to the Gay Village. Asked what R uling E xtends G erman Civil union couples are granted the same rights happened after the parade, Pride Scotia P artner B enefits as married people. (Edinburgh) Convener John Hein said: “Lots of Berlin’s Administrative Court ruled June 24 people got very drunk, a few went to the Health that people united under Germany’s same-sex A nti -G ays M arch in F iji and Community Fair, and then there was a big partnership law are entitled to each other’s pen Even though there are no proposals to legal loud-popular-noise thing called Ocean Pride sion when one of them dies. ize same-sex marriage, 200 Methodists marched held from 10:30 p.m. to 3 a.m. at Ocean The court redefined the word “spouse” in against it June 25 in the Nausori neighborhcxxl Terminal." pension benefit plans. ___________________ of Suva, Fiji. Panama saw its first Gay Pride parade More than 6,000 same- “A marriage be June 25. About 70 people marched, with at least sex couples have regis tween two men is very an equal number walking along on the side tered since 2002. sinful. It’s against walks, out of view of media cameras. Six news God’s law,” the Rev. papers, five radio stations, two television stations P oles P rotest Kalivati Ravoka told and numerous Web sites covered the parade. U.S. G ay C horus The Fiji Times. “We “For being our first-ever march, that was The Boston Gay need to make a stand quite a turnout—definitely beyond what we Men’s Chonis got less before it happens.... were expecting,” said Javier Rixlriguez of the than a unanimous wel The legalization of New Men and Worrten Association of Panama, come at its June 27 gay marriage will which organized the parade. concert in Wroclaw, bring other ungodly “This, for me, is the first time that I’ve been Poland—the nation’s acts to our country.” able to gauge an actual ‘gay community’ in first such perfonnance. The Rev. Malakai Panama,” Rodríguez said. “All these years, The League of Tuikadavu added: everyone’s been talking about such a communi Polish Families staged “These people who ty. To me, it had never existed until now.... This a emde demonstration, have this spiritual dis is the first time that the different actors—from and the singers had to ease do not like to lis the clubs to the boutique to the bathhouse to the be transported to the ten. Even if we talk to bars to the Web sit< have responded to the call concert site in secure them nicely and in of one actor, our group, and joined efforts to buses and protected by the right way, they make something, anything, happen!” police as they entered still look at us and At the end of the parade, 600 balkxins were the building. walk the opposite released, 100 for each color of the rainbow flag. Ticket sales were way.... This is a sick suspended after the ness and can be league threatened to healed.... 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