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DECEMBER 2. 2005 jUStpUt ,21 Meanwhile, Poland’s new anti-gay prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, sneaked in a side door of their support, we want to just keep it small. Not to make a ballyhoo of the ceremony." London’s Chatham House on Nov. 24 to avoid protest Furnish told Attitude. “I’ve always considered ers from the gay rights group OutRage and the myself committed to Elton, and he’s the person that I European Region of the International Lesbian and Gay want to spend the rest of my life with. So in that sense, Association. He was in London to give a lecture. 1 don’t feel like the dynamic of our relationship is Marcinkiewicz recently angered gays by telling going to change. But from a social standpoint, I think Newsweek-. “The family is natural, and the state must it’s hugely significant. It is a major, major change. It is stand guard over die family. I don’t care if someone is one of the defining issues of our times.” a homosexual or not, and even if I found out some The Partnership Act takes effect Dec. 5, but the first thing like that, I wouldn’t judge a person differently registrations will not take place until Dec. 21 because than on their actions alone. But if that person tries to of a required 15-day waiting period after a couple file infect others with their homosexuality, then the state notice of their intentions. Registered partners will must intervene in this violation of freedom.” receive all the rights and obligations of marriage. Couples who have formalized a same-sex union over Muslim Gay Group Registered in Balkans The International Initiative for Visibility of Queer seas will not need to reregister in the United Kingdom to be recognized. There will be a formal, court-based process for dissolution of a civil partnership. Muslims has achieved official registration as a non governmental organization in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2010 Gay Games Go to Cologne The group’s members said it is “the first ever offi Cologne beat out Paris and Johannesburg, South cially recognized queer Muslim society in a predomi Africa, to host the 2010 Gay Games, the Federation of nantly Muslim country—or a country where Muslims Gay Games announced Nov. 13. are not considered a minority—as well as the only queer faith-based organization in the Balkans.” The year-old group hopes to establish a faith You deserve more than 15 minutes in the spotlight. That’s our stand. The 2006 games are being held from July 15 to 22 in Chicago. A competing event, the first World Outgames, is being staged from July 29 to Aug. 5 in Montreal. Call me today for the attention you deserve. based dialogue between sexual, gender and cultural Montreal originally was to host the 2006 Gay minorities and the rest of society, according to a press (James, but local organizers and the federation could Appointments to fit your schedule release. It plans to gather “queer Muslim scholars not agree on financial matters and attendance expec and activists who will speak out for the oppressed tations, and Montreal set off on its own. The 2006 Leslie Melin queer Muslim community, contribute to the creation games then relocated to Chicago. and development of the LGBTIQ movement, especial AMERICAS ly in so-called Muslim countries,’ and represent its interests in the international religious and human rights arena.” For more information e-mail ivqm.bih@gmail.com. Elton John and his longtime partner, David Furnish, are getting married Dec. 21 when the United Kingdom’s comprehensive same-sex Civil Partnership Act comes into force. 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Sports Injury - HIV - HPV/STDs - Hepatitis - PSA/Prostate Cancer Six people were arrested when a small group of anti-gay Catholics tried to prevent the marchers from “It’ll be a very small family -affair, and then in the getting too close to the Metropolitan Cathedral, which evening there’ll be a soiree somewhere, which we have sits on one corner of the Plaza de Mayo, where the yet to work out,” John told the gay magazine Attitude famous Casa Rosada also is located. Nov. 24. “The ceremony itself will be David’s parents . Marcher Mariano Lago joked: “At one point, it and my parents and the two of us. They’ll be our wit started raining and we figured God was castigating us nesses. That’s the way we want to do it. They’ve been for being sodomites and that the end of the world was so fantastic to us and so supportive. Out of respect for upon us. 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" In 1995, Quebec voters came within 1.2 percent age points of choosing to separate from Canada. © Téâfn ! |ob Hotline: 503-988-5035 TTY: 503-988-5170 Compiled by R ex W( x ; kner , who has reported for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor 's degree in Elton John and longtime partner David Furnish will be married in the United Kingdom. journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. an equal opportunity employer jÉdk --------- MULTNOMAH COUNTY
