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Rally speakers included Minister of Social Affairs Ami Magnusson who expressed unquali fied support for same-sex marriage, adoption and assisted reproduction. Iceland has offered same- sex registered partnership since 1996. The turnout amounted to one-sixth of the island’s population, which totals 296,737. A record 120,000 people turned out for the Gay Pride parade and party Aug. 6 in the British gay resort town of Brighton, Sussex Police told the British Broadcasting Corp. Twenty officers in uniform led the 2.5-mile march from the seafront to Preston Park, and the Gay Police Association flag flew outside the Brighton police station. The BBC said there were twice as many floats as last year. Netherlands and Belgium. In the fourth, Canada, even visitors can get married, buying a license and tying the knot the same day—except in Quebec, which has a brief waiting pericxl. Hundreds of U.S. same-sex couples have crossed the border to marry in Canada since Ontario became the first province to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003. Same-sex marriage became legal everywhere in Canada in July. P olish A ctivist F ined for O ffending C atholics Polish activist Robert Biedron was fined $181 by a district court Aug. 2 in Warmia-Masuria Province for insulting Roman Catholics. Biedron, president of Campaign Against Homophobia, had said of Polish Family Association activist Dorota Ekes, “[Her words] mirror in full the fascist-nationalistic- Catholic character of the witch hunt against homosexuals.” Ekes, in an interview with the daily newspa per Nasz Dziennik, had said: “Homosexuality is an inversion of ideas and a threat to a healthy family. If somebody bears this illness, they should B rit L esbians S ue be aware in advance that they will be forbidden for M arriage R ecognition to perform certain activities, which particularly Two British lesbians who got married in concerns a func Canada have sued the U.K. tion of a teacher government for recognition who educates our of their marriage, The children and Independent newspaper shapes their con reported. sciences, and in a Celia Kitzinger, 48, and sense also social Sue Wilkinson, 51, lodged ideas.” their petition Aug. 12 at the Biedron High Court and promised to learned of the fine appeal all the way to the from the media. European Court of Human “I had no pos Rights if necessary. Beginning sibility to defend in December, British gay cou Robert Biedron (right) and Marta Abramowicz ples will be able to enter into are president and vice president of the Polish myself, and the sentence was civil partnerships that grant organization Campaign Against Homophobia. reached in a all the rights and obligations record time of 12 days, at closed session,” he said. of marriage, but Kitzinger and Wilkinson say that’s not good enough. Moscow M ayor : N o G ay P ride H ere “Our relationship is not a civil partnership, it is a marriage,” said Kitzinger, a sociology profes Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said July 27 that he will never permit a Gay Pride parade in the city sor at York University. “Any different-sex couple who did what we did would have had their mar because he wants “to protect the feelings of Muscovites, who riage recognized. I feel insulted would definitely about being treated differently than oppose such an a heterosexual couple. event.” “Marriage is the golden seal of a Activists are relationship,” she added. “A civil partnership is not imbued with planning the city’s first parade in May those same symbols.” 2006 on the 13th The couple got married in anniversary of the Vancouver in 2003. Some Canadian legalization of gay provinces began allowing same-sex sex. Organizers marriage more than two years ago, Nikolay Alexeyev and Parliament legalized it nation Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov opposes and Evgeniya wide in July. Gay Pride celebrations in his city. Debryanskaya said According to The Independent, they will fight a marriage that takes place overseas Luzhkov all the way to the European Court of is recognized in Britain if it is recognized by the country in which it took place and nothing in Human Rights, if necessary. that country’s law restricted either person’s free dom to marry. Kitzinger and Wilkinson’s mar HIV I nfections C limb A mong G ay D anes riage seems to meet those requirements. Danish gay and bisexual men apparently F oreign G ay C ouples have fallen off the safe-sex wagon. HIV infec C an M arry in S pain tions hit an all-time high last year. Spain’s Justice Ministry ruled Aug. 8 that for There were 159 cases of HIV transmission eign same-sex couples who live there can get between men who have sex with men in 2004, married there. compared with 114 in 2003 and 92 in 2002. “A marriage celebrated between a Spaniard “This is quite serious,” Stop AIDS’ Jakob and a foreigner, or between foreigners of the Haff told the newspaper Berlingske Tidende. “We same sex resident in Spain, will be valid as a could be on the brink of a renewed outbreak of result of applying Spanish material law, even if the epidemic.” the foreigner’s national legislation does not per Experts attributed the increase, in part, to the newer HIV treatments that allow HIV-infected mit or recognize the validity of such marriages,” people to stay healthy and sexually active. the government declared. The law is similar in two of the other three “There are actually more HIV-positive[s] in nations that allow same-sex marriage: the the pool of sexually active men," said the
