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Brit Tories Advertise in Gay Press
Britain’s Conservative Party, the Tories, is
advertising in the gay press for the first time.
The popular Web site PinkNews.co.uk agreed
to accept the party’s ads, saying it is “proud of our
ability to engage with all political parties and
interest groups, (and] the messages that the
Conservative Party in 2007 want to share with the
gay community are ones we feel comfortable with.”
The party reportedly also has bought ads on
Facebook and the gossip portal Popbitch. British'
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“We are aware that some of our readers will be
angered that PinkNews.co.uk has decided to take
adverts from the Conservative Party,” the Web site
noted. “We can only stress that we kxik forward to
the day when all the parties see the value of adver­
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City Bans All Flags
to Avoid the Gay Flag
The Town Council of the small city of Truro,
Ecuadorean Defense Minister Lorena Escudero
provincial Human Rights Commission for refusing
quit Aug. 30 amid controversy concerning her plan
to fly the rainbow flag over the Civic Building
to allow people in the military who come out as gay
during August’s Gay Pride festivities, has decided
to remain in the forces.
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plaguing the city of Truro, Nova Scotia.
Escudero said the Ecuador Constitution, which
bans discrimination based on sexual orientation,
The council previously had welcomed tempo­
mandated the change in policy. At the same time,
rary displays of flags representing various groups
she was not advocating that open gays be allowed
and organizations on its five official flagpoles.
to join the military.
When it rejected the gay flag, in a 6-1 vote in
Reports said Escudero resigned after high mili­
August, Mayor Bill Mills remarked: “God says, ‘I’m
tary commanders expressed strong opposition to
not in favor of (homosexuality),’ and I have to look
her proposal. She reportedly moved to a new job
at it and say, ‘I guess I’m not, either.’ If I have a group
heading the government’s Migrant Office.
of people that says pedophiles should have rights, do
we raise their flag, too? There doesn’t seem to be
New Defense Minister Wellington Sandoval said
he has no plans to “politicize” the armed forces.
standards anymore.”
In adopting the total flag ban Sept. 10, a major­
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ity of the council also apologized to Pride organiz­
There are a lot more gay Canadians than there
er Charles Thompson for Mills’ homophobic
used to be. Or maybe not. Perhaps the census has
remarks, saying they didn’t share his opinions. Mills
gotten better at counting them, and gays are
said he had no further comment.
getting better about coming out to the government.
Thompson told The Chronicle Herald newspaper
Newly released data from the 2006 census
that the new policy is an easy solution that doesn’t
shows 45,345 same-sex couples nationwide, a 32.6
“deal with homophobic attitudes that we feel exist
percent jump from 2001. But the figures are still far
in this town [and] sends the message that they still
from complete, as the couples amount to only 0.6
don’t want to deal with us.”
percent of total Canadian couples.
Truro, population 12,000, is about 60 miles
northwest of Halifax.
Half of the couples who came out to census
takers lived in Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.
Of the couples counted, 7,465
have gotten married since Canadian
provinces began legalizing same-sex
marriage in 2003. It was legalized
nationally in 2005. Records from
the provinces show that 12,438
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count, in part because the effort to
count them was newly formulated
and because the census forms
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Ecuadorean Defense Minister Lorena Escudero resigned
because of opposition to a controversial policy of allowing
gays to remain in the armed forces.
ples jumped 300 percent from 1990
to 2000. In Australia, it doubled
from 1996 to 2001.