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Source: AFP , Reuters via Toronto Star LISBON -- Lawmakers in Portugal soundly rejected a proposal on Friday to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, sparking anger among gays who say they face discrimination in the conservative Catholic country. The proposal by the small Left Bloc and Green parties...

Source: AFP , Earthtimes , PinkNews OSLO -- Norway's parliament on Wednesday adopted a new gender-neutral marriage law that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry and adopt children and permits lesbians to be artificially inseminated, AFP reports. After a heated debate, the members of parliament...

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: Canberra Times , AFP , The Australian , ABC News (Australia) SYDNEY -- Right-wing Australian Christian groups Monday welcomed a decision by a local territory government to abandon its plans to legalize same-sex civil union ceremonies after intervention from the Labor government of Prime Minister...

Source: The Age , ABC News (Australia) , Sydney Morning Herald SAME-SEX couples in Canberra have lost a legal battle for civil unions, after the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government was forced into a humiliating backdown on the issue during tense negotiations with the Federal Government. ACT...

Source: Sydney Morning Herald , ABC News (Australia) , The Age A major victory is on the horizon in the long battle by gay and lesbian partners in Australia for the same legal and financial rights as de facto heterosexual couples, Sydney Morning Herald reports. Australia's federal government plans...

Source: Australian , Sydney Star Observer Canberra -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been presented with his first major challenge on gay law reform from within his own party. The political leader of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) -- a small semi-autonomous area that includes the federal...

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: 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: BBC News , Bloomberg Poland's main opposition party said it will reject a bill to ratify the European Union's new governing treaty unless far-reaching changes are made. The stance threatens the future of the treaty, designed to streamline decision-making in the 27-nation bloc. The treaty...