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Russia: The New Gay Activism

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

It may be the Day of Silence, but the two hundred or so people in Valery Sozaev’s office are anything but. There is a buzz of nervous excitement. We’re about to march down Nevsky Prospect, St Petersburg’s main street, with tape over our mouths, handing out flyers calling for an end to homophobia.

“It’s important to show people that activism exists,” says Irina, a marcher who didn’t give her last name. “But it’s a risk in Russia. I think people are very nervous.” As it turns out, they have reason to be. Our rally permit has been denied, allegedly due to construction in our path.

“Cunning, very cunning,” mutters Anton Smolev, a social studies teacher.

Full Story from Capital Xtra: http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/The_new_Russian_queer_activism-7921.aspx

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WA: Everything But Marrige Law Takes Effect Thursday

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

On Thursday, it will be 30 days since Election Day. Big deal, you say? It is a big deal. As John Marsh, Bob Teichman, Dee Peterson and others planning to celebrate outside the Snohomish County Courthouse know, the state’s new domestic partnership law takes effect Thursday.

Voters approved it last month by deciding the fate of Referendum 71, which was placed on the ballot by those opposed to expanded rights for state-registered domestic partners.

Seen as a direct vote on gay rights, R-71 bucked a national trend. Maine voters on Nov. 3 repealed a same-sex marriage law. In 2008, voters in California, Arizona and Florida eliminated the right of gay couples to marry or approved marriage-protection measures.

Full Story from Herald.net: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20091202/NEWS01/712029857

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Nepal: Gay Member of Parliament Forms Tourism Agency for Gays, Lesbians

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Nepal’s first and only openly gay member of parliament, who is also the founder of the gay rights movement in the conservative republic, has offered a wedding and honeymoon package to Indian icon for the sexual minorities, Manvendra Singh Gohil, the crown prince of Rajkot.

Sunil Babu Pant, who was nominated to Nepal’s newly elected parliament after a historic election last year, has formed the country’s first tourist agency for gays, lesbians and transgenders, and has obtained the blessings of Tourism Minister Sharad Singh Bhandari to promote Nepal as a holiday destination where sexual minorities can combine weddings with adventure tourism.

Pink Mountains Travels and Tours, registered under the ministry of small-scale industries, has already received a booking from an American lesbian couple who want to travel to Nepal in 2011 and marry there while a second couple, featuring a Filipino and an Arab in Dubai, have been in touch, saying they would book as soon as Nepal gets new laws legalising same-sex marriages.

Full Story from the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/south-asia/Nepal-MP-offers-honeymoon-package-to-gay-Indian-prince/articleshow/5292379.cms

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Ex Spouses Speak Up for Gay Marriage in DC

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

If anyone could have talked himself out of being gay, Kimberly Brooks said it was her husband.

He wanted to be straight; she wanted him to be straight. She once followed his gaze across the beach to another man but quickly dismissed the thought. No, he couldn’t be. Then he started spending more time with one particular friend and an unease pushed Brooks to ask the question that ultimately confirmed her fears: Was that friend gay?

“He said, ‘I don’t know.’ And in that moment, I knew,” said Brooks, a therapist in Falls Church. “That day, the marriage was over.”

Full Story from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110602953.html

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Green Party Tells Austrian Government Time Running Out on Gay Marriage Pledge

Monday, October 12th, 2009

The Greens today (Mon) warned the government was in danger of breaking its promise of a new law on gay marriages by 1 January 2010.

Greens’ justice spokesman Albert Steinhauser said “time was running out” for the new law. He added civil partnerships would also give heterosexual couples a less demanding alternative to marriage in a permanent relationship.

Civil partnerships, he said, would give couples the right to financial support only during their duration and would be easier to dissolve than marriage. He said homosexual couples should not be given preferential treatment but have the same rights and obligations as heterosexual couples.

Full Story from the Austrian Times: http://austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-10-12/17143/Greens_warning_over_homosexual_marriage_

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