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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
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queer Muslim community, contribute to the creation
games then relocated to Chicago.
and development of the LGBTIQ movement, especial
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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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Thousands of people marched from the Plaza de
Mayo to Argentina’s Congress in Buenos Aires’ 14th
Gay Pride parade Nov. 20.
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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. But thç rain stopped quickly and a rainbow
appeared!”
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leader Nov. 15.
André Boisclair, a former Cabinet minister, trounced
former Finance Minister Pauline Marois 54 percent to
31 percent in a telephone vote by some 107,(MM) of the
party’s members. Boisclair, 39, hopes to see à new ref
erendum on Quebec independence if the party beats the
Quebec Liberals in the next election.
“The Parti Québécois will seek the mandate to
hold.. .a referendum on the sovereignty of Quebec as
rapidly as possible,” he said. “Let us all work togeth
er to achieve the country of Quebec. "
In 1995, Quebec voters came within 1.2 percent
age points of choosing to separate from Canada. ©
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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.
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