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2.4 million take to the streets of Sao Paulo for Gay Pride 2006.
Since they have been jailed for more than a year
after their arrests at a gay bar, they are expected to
be released shortly, said the International Gay and
Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Two other
men were found not guilty.
IGLHRC head Paula Ettelbrick said she does
not understand “on what basis the convictions were
made, as there was no evidence presented by the
prosecution of the commission of sodomy.” She
explained that homosexuality itself is not banned
in Cameroon and that a conviction for sodomy
requires being apprehended or witnessed in the act.
Minister of Justice Amadou Ali has said the
men were jailed to ensure “that positive African
cultural values are preserved.”
Two other men were convicted on sodomy
charges earlier this year and sentenced to one year
in prison. Four women are awaiting trial on the
same charges.
IGLHRC says Cameroon “has become famous
this past year for detention of its citizens on
‘sodomy charges,’ sanctioning the expelling of
young women from secondary schools for their
stated sexual orientation and for ‘gay baiting’
high-level officials and public personalities with
charges of homosexuality in local papers.”
Gays March in Mauritius
Several hundred people staged the first Gay
Pride parade in the Indian Ocean nation of
Mauritius on May 20.
Reports said shoppers were shocked by the
display in a busy section of Rose Hill. Drag queens
led the parade wearing feather boas and high heels,
Reuters said.
Attorney General Rama Valayden called the
march “a new page in the history of Mauritius.. the
page of freedom."
Located off the southeast coast of Africa,
Mauritius has a population of 1.2 million.
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Australian Government Kills
Capital's Civil Unions
Australia’s federal government June 13
squashed a civil union bill passed by the Legislative
Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory, a
jurisdiction similar to Washington, D.C.
The feds said the ACT civil unions were too
much like marriage, which federal law specifically
restricts to opposite-sex couples. The feds killed the
law by instructing the queen’s representative,
Governor General Michael Jeffery, to use his pow
er to block measures passed by the ACT Assembly.
“The ACT civil relationships ordinance has
been disallowed,” said federal Attorney General
Philip Ruddock. “The legislative amendments
introduced to establish a civil arrangement for
same-sex parties and others in the ACT will no
longer be law.”
A day later, an attempt in rhe federal Senate to
override Jeffery’s decision failed by a vote of 32-30.
ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell said the
territory will now introduce another civil union
bill. He said it will not be watered down but will
contain different language designed not to provoke
the federal government.
In response, the federal Attorney General’s
Department warned, “If this is more than just
another political stunt, the ACT should consult
with the commonwealth before enacting legislation
to ensure it is drafted in a way that does not seek to
equate civil unions with marriage.”
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2.4 Million at Sao Paulo Pride
In the largest Gay Pride parade in the history of
the world, 2.4 million people turned out June 17 in
Sao Paulo, Brazil, police said. It was the city’s 10th
gay parade.
The march continues to grow each year even
though activists complain that anti-gay discrimina
tion remains at high levels. At least 81 Brazilians
were murdered in anti-gay hate crimes last year.
The parade theme was “Homophobia Is a
Crime.”
In Mexico City the same day, 160,000 people
hit the streets for the city’s 28th Pride march.
Organizers demanded equal rights and opportuni
ties, legal recognition of same-sex families and
reform of the educational system to present queers
in a fair manner. The five-hour parade began at the
Angel of Independence rfionument and ended at
the Zocalo, a huge square that is Mexico’s political
epicenter.
Speakers at the post-parade rally included the
president of the Mexico City Human Rights
Commission and the director of the National
Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS.
Among several politicians in attendance was
presidential candidate Patricia Mercado of the
Social Democratic and Farmer Alternative party.
Pop singer Gloria Trevi performed her latest
single, “Everybody’s Watching Me." She said, “You
should not have to fight for your rights to acquire
them or have them, because you were born with
them.” ©
('implied by R f .X WOCKNER, who has reported for
the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s degree
in journalism from Drake University and started his
career as a radio reporter
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