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Source: Deutsche Welle , New York Times , BBC News , AFP Defying threats of prosecution, the mayor of a remote Greek island performed the country’s first same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Tilos Mayor Tasos Aliferis performed the early morning civil ceremony between two men before hundreds of witnesses, including...

Source: AP via IHT , Polskie Radio , theNews.pl , UK Gay News , EurActiv WARSAW, Poland -- A gay couple from New York, Brendan Fay and Thomas Moulton, whose wedding images were used in a recent TV address by Polish President Lech Kaczynski, arrived in Warsaw over the weekend. "We come here in the...

Source: Pink News , BBC News Gay activists in Greece find that they have, at least temporarily, become strange political bedfellows with the Greek Orthodox Church in opposing a draft parliamentary bill that would allow unmarried couples to make their relationship legally binding, by signing a simple...

Source: Associated Press via Newsday , AFP , Financial Times A gay man from the New York on Tuesday voiced outrage against Poland's President Lech Kaczynski for publicly using a video of his marriage to bash the EU's proposed charter of rights. "Of course I am outraged that the president...

Source: AFP , Associated Press via Washington Blade A gay-rights organization in Greece said Thursday it has discovered a loophole in a 26-year-old law that would allow gays to marry legally. The group, OLKE, said a 1982 law legalizing weddings in civil ceremonies refers only to participating "persons...

Source: Xinhua LISBON, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Two women Wednesday held their wedding on a flight from the Portuguese capital of Lisbon to the Spanish capital of Madrid to press their call for legal recognition of homosexual unions in Portugal. The move, sponsored by Jordi Petit, president of the Catalan...