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MARCH 17. 2006 lUSt QUt 21 70% OFF HANDMADE PERSIAN CARPETS! Moscow Mayor Reiterates Anti-Gay Stance Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has reiterated his promise to han the city’s first Gay Pride parade this May. . Speaking Feh. 22 in Berlin at a press conference with the mayors of Paris, London and Berlin, he said that he is “against such a phenomenon in life” and that the parade would “provoke society.” Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit are both openly gay. “I will not permit such parades,” Luzhkov said, according to Interfax. “My philosophy is my negative attitude to these phenomena, as I believe them to be unnatural to the human nature, though I try to be tolerant to whatever develops in human society.” Human Rights Watch denounced Luzhkov’s statements Feb. 27, calling them “a threat to civil liberties and civil society.” In a letter to the mayor, gay rights director Scott Long said: “Prohibiting this parade would consti tute an unacceptable and discriminatory interfer ence with the peaceful exercise of the freedom of assembly [and] violate Russia’s obligations under international law. As a party to the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Russia is obligated not to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.” Gay groups picketed March 2 outside Russian government buildings in London; Paris; Stockholm, Sweden; Vienna, Austria; and Warsaw, Poland. “Who does Luzhkov think he is? Joseph Stalin?,” asked Peter Tatchell of the British gay direct-action group OutRage. “Someone should remind Yuri that the anti-gay Soviet Union is dead. Russia is a democracy, and in a democracy people have a right to protest peacefully.” In Warsaw, about 20 protesters put a letter in the Russian Embassy’s mailbox after no one came outside to meet the group. Lesbian Parliamentarian to Get Hitched Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament Margaret Smith will “marry” her part ner this month under the United Kingdom’s new Civil Partnership Act. “The ceremony will take place in Edinburgh in the presence of family and friends," Smith and part ner Suzanne Main said in a statement. Smith came out in 2003, saying: “I am happy to confirm that I am in a relationship with a female partner.... My partner is not in the public eye. We would hope that the media would respect the privacy of both families at this time.” France Extends Parental Rights to Same-Sex Couples Same-sex couples were granted access to joint parental rights over each other’s biological children by France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, Feb. 24. The court said a biological partner is free to del egate parental authority to his or her live-in, stable partner when it is in a child’s best interest to do so. Transsexual Beaten to Death in Portugal A 46-year-old transgender woman was beaten to death in Porto, Portugal, in late February. According to PortugalGay.PT, “Gisberta” reportedly was beaten, stoned, stomped on, burned, Margaret Smith, an openly gay member of the Scottish Parliament, will register with Suzanne Main under the United Kingdom's new Civil Partnership Act. sexually assaulted with a stick and thrown into a deep pit in an abandoned building where she had been living. Media reports said that 14 boys between ages 10 and 16 admitted to police their involvement in the crime after one of the boys con fessed to a teacher. About 40 people staged a candlelight vigil Feb. 24 in a parking area of the building in ^hich the body was found. An immigrant from Brazil, Gisberta had lived in Portugal for 25 years. She worked as a prostitute and an occasional performer in gay bars. Her legal name was Gilberto Salce Júnior. free 900 AW 5th Ave (at 5th and Taylor) • Portland. 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