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ベルリンのゲイパレードに40万人
2007年06月24日 07:25 発信地:ベルリン/ドイツ 関連写真 1枚 2007年6月23日、ベルリンのクリストファー・ストリート・デイ(Christopher Street Day、CSD)の参加者たち。(c)AFP/DDP/NIGEL TREBLIN 【6月24日 AFP】ベルリン(Berlin)で23日、同性愛者の権利を求めるゲイパレードが開催、ゲイやレズビアンら40万人が集まり、同性愛者に対する職場や学校での差別を訴えた。 凝った衣装を身につけた、ゲイ、レズビアン、バイセクシュアル、トランスジェンダーの人々が、市内を練り歩いた。 同性愛者団体のAxel Hochreinさんは、ヘテロセクシュアルの夫婦に与えられる権利が、同性愛カップルに対して同等に与えられないのは差別だとして、国の法律を批判した。 ゲイであることを公言しているクラウス・ヴォーベレイト(Klaus Wowereit)ベルリン市長は同日午後、式辞を述べた。 同イベントは、1969年の同性愛者と警察が衝突したニューヨークのクリストファー・ストリート(Christopher Street)での事件を祈念し毎年開催される。(c)AFP #
by alfayoko2005
| 2007-06-24 09:05
| LGB(TIQ)
자식원하는 준비된 부모 어린이 인권도 생각해야
20070611200106.. JUNE 12, 2007 04:50 임우선 (imsun@donga.com) 지난달 19일 결혼한 트랜스젠더 연예인 하리수가 네 명의 아이를 입양해 기르고 싶다는 뜻을 공식적으로 밝힌 후 인터넷에는 트랜스젠더의 입양권을 둘러싼 논쟁이 일고 있다. 하리수의 입양 의사를 보도한 인터넷 기사의 댓글과 포털사이트 게시판에는 연일 찬반논쟁이 줄을 잇고 있다. 본보 취재 결과 트랜스젠더 부부가 비공식적으로 입양을 한 사례는 국내에도 이미 있는 것으로 확인이 됐다. 국내 트랜스젠더 인구는 통상 1200여 명에서 많게는 4500여 명으로 추산되지만 지금까지 입양지정기관을 통해 공식적으로 입양에 성공한 트랜스젠더는 없다. 입양기관들 거부감 표시=현재 법적으로 트랜스젠더의 아이 입양에는 아무런 문제가 없다. 입양자격요건에 성적 소수자에 대한 제한 규정은 없을뿐더러 지난해 국내입양 활성화를 위해 정부가 입양 규정을 완화하면서는 독신자도 자녀 입양이 가능해졌다. 그러나 본보가 접촉한 20여 개의 국내 입양기관 모두는 아무리 다른 조건을 다 갖췄다 하더라도 트랜스젠더인 부모라면 입양이 어렵다는 반응을 보였다. 문의를 해 오면 자격요건에 대해 설명은 해 주지만 현실적으로 입양에 동의해 줄 수는 없다는 것. 한 입양기관 관계자는 입양기관은 특별한 가정이 아니라 입양아동이 보통의 아이들처럼 클 수 있는 평범한 가정을 찾는 것이라며 편견이라 할 수도 있겠지만 트랜스젠더 가정이나 동성애자 가정이 일반적인 성장환경이 아닌 것은 사실이지 않으냐고 말했다. 뜨거운 감자로 떠오를 듯=국내 입양기관들의 거부감 표시에 대해 전문가들도 의견이 엇갈린다. 익명을 요구한 복수의 정신과 의사들은 트랜스젠더의 입양은 성적 소수자의 인권 외에도 어린이의 인권을 생각해야 한다며 반대했다. 반면 김붕년 서울대 소아정신과 교수는 폭력을 행사하고 아이를 돌보지 않는 등 부모로서의 자세를 갖추지 못한 (비트랜스젠더) 부모보다는 아이를 간절히 원하고 사랑해 줄 준비가 돼 있는 트랜스젠더 부모가 더 좋은 부모가 될 수 있다고 주장했다. 논쟁이 계속되는 가운데 트랜스젠더를 비롯한 한국의 성적 소수자들은 자녀와 가정을 가질 권리를 포함해 사회적, 법적 권익을 보호받기 위한 움직임을 점차 키워가고 있다. 민주노동당은 이번 대선 공약으로 동성애자의 혼인, 입양 등 가족구성권을 보장하는 법안 발의와 함께 성소수자 인권보호를 위한 기본계획 수립을 내세울 예정이어서 이를 둘러싼 논쟁은 앞으로 더 뜨거워질 전망이다. Adoption by Transgenders? JUNE 12, 2007 04:50 Donga.com Ha Ri-soo, a newly wed transgender entertainer, expressed her will to “adopt four children,” causing a heated debate on the right to adoption by transgenders. Mixed reactions are posted on bulletin boards of portal sites. The Dong-A Ilbo found that some transgender couples have unofficially adopted children in Korea. The country’s transgender population is estimated at 1,200 to 4,500. But none of them have adopted a child through an official channel. Opposition from Adoption Agencies- Adoption by transgender couples is totally legal in Korea. There are no regulations on sexual orientation in the qualifications for adoptive parents. Also, a single can adopt a child, as the government eased regulations on adoption last year in an attempt to facilitate domestic adoption. However, all of some 20 domestic adoption agencies that the Dong-A Ilbo talked to said, “Transgender couples have difficulty adopting a child, even if their qualifications are perfect.” They added that they can offer explanations about qualifications to inquiring transgender couples but cannot agree on their adoption. An adoption agency official said, “Agencies look for ‘ordinary families’ where adoptees can live a normal life just like other children, rather than ‘special families.’ Some might call it prejudice, but it is true that transgendered or same-sex parents are not ordinary parents.” A Potential Hot-Button Issue- Experts offer mixed reactions to the opposition from adoption agencies. On condition of anonymity, some psychiatrists shared the agencies’ stance, saying, “Adoption by transgendered parents is not just about the human rights of sexual minorities, but about the human rights of adopted children.” However, pediatric psychiatry professor Kim Boong-nyun at Seoul National University argues, “Transgender parents who are eager to have a child and ready to love them could be better than those (non-transgender parents) who do not qualify as good parents, using violence on children and neglecting them.” Amid heated debate, the country’s sexual minorities, including transgenders, are increasingly seeking protection of their social and legal rights, including the right to have children and a family. The Democratic Labor Party plans to include the submission of bill about protecting homosexuals’ right to marriage, adoption, and having a family, and the establishment of basic plans for human rights protection for sexual minorities in its presidential election pledge, which could lead to a more heated debate. #
by alfayoko2005
| 2007-06-23 18:34
| トランス
After 30 years as a closet Catholic, Blair finally puts faith before politics
Outgoing PM seizes early opportunity to convert free of dilemmas of public role Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Friday June 22, 2007 Guardian His spiritual awakening goes back at least 30 years, to his time as an undergraduate at Oxford, but due to political considerations Tony Blair's conversion to Catholicism has been a long time coming. He has been attending Catholic mass, often with his family but also occasionally alone, since long before he became prime minister. His wife, Cherie, is a lifelong and practising Catholic, and in accordance with church rules their children have been brought up as Catholics and were sent to church schools. More than 10 years ago Mr Blair was slipping into Westminster cathedral and occasionally taking communion, until the late Cardinal Basil Hume told him to stop because it was causing comment as he was not a Catholic - an injunction that bemused him at the time. Since then he has regularly attended services conducted by Canon Timothy Russ, parish priest of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Great Missenden, the nearest Catholic church to Chequers. He is also known to have had discussions with priests such as Father Timothy Radcliffe, former head of the worldwide Dominican order, now at Oxford, and with Father Michael Seed, who has shephered a number of high-profile figures, including Ann Widdecome and, allegedly, Alan Clark, towards conversion. Fr Seed, an engaging if indiscreet figure, has claimed to have paid regular backdoor visits to Downing Street to talk religion, if not necessarily to advise the prime minister. So why has it taken so long? Almost certainly because of Mr Blair's sensitivity about the place of Catholicism in British public - and particularly its constitutional - life. The only positions specifically barred to Catholics are marriage to the sovereign or heir to the throne, or becoming sovereign themselves, a legacy of the Act of Settlement that followed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the deposition of the last Catholic monarch, James II; there has never been a Catholic prime minister. In the last 40 years Catholics have entered many senior positions in British public life, generally without comment except among the wilder fringes of Protestant Calvinism: in the civil service, the Foreign Office and industry, as MPs and ministers in Conservative and Labour cabinets. The current director general of the BBC, Mark Thompson, is a Catholic and, briefly, four years ago, with Charles Kennedy, leader of the Liberal Democrats, and Iain Duncan Smith, leader of the Tories, so were the alternative prime ministers. But the motives of Catholic politicians have traditionally been regarded with suspicion by non-Catholics, both here and in the US, based on the allegation that they take their orders from the Vatican rather than the electorate. Catholic political leaders have always denied it - but the recent antics of some bishops in the US during the 2004 presidential campaign when they threatened to deny John Kerry communion because of his support for abortion rights and, recently, Cardinal Keith O'Brien's warning that he would do the same in Scotland, have tended to confirm old suspicions. A number of potentially divisive moral issues would have been much more difficult if Mr Blair had been known to be a Catholic, even though his personal beliefs have not necessarily intruded into the government's decisions. Ministers have enacted civil partnerships for gay couples and this year faced down demands, particularly from the Catholic church, for exemption from equality provisions enabling gay couples to adopt children, even though the prime minister favoured compromise. Equally, the government has not attempted to limit abortion rights - an issue regarded as long settled in Britain except by some mainly Catholic groups - or pushed for reduced time limits, even though the church regards abortion as a sin. And it has permitted stem cell research without conceding to Catholic opposition. Mr Blair, like President George Bush, ignored the condemnations and warnings of the Pope and all other church leaders over the war in Iraq. He has been keen to expand the number of faith schools and church-supported academies, in the face of strong opposition from secular groups, but here again seemingly not for reasons of religious indoctrination but because of their parental popularity. The criticism of Ruth Kelly when she was education secretary because of her membership of the lay sect Opus Dei - at a time when the novel The Da Vinci Code had made the group more widely known - also showed that the old prejudice could still be deployed. Mr Blair probably thought he could do without the extra hassle. He has kept his personal religious views largely out of his political life. Ostentatious religiosity does not go down well in Britain. He dropped his wish to end a prime ministerial broadcast on the eve of the Iraq invasion with the words: "God bless" on the advice of Alastair Campbell, who famously told him "We don't do God". Explainer: Becoming a Catholic The path to purification Converting to Catholicism is not a straightforward or easy process, as Tony Blair will have realised. It takes time - though how long depends on the candidate's readiness and aptitude - and is based on the church's assessment of their sincerity and commitment. The process is described in a 44-page document called the Rite of Christian Initiation. When there was a rush of conversions from Anglicanism in the early 1990s, after the Church of England's decision to ordain women priests, there was considerable murmuring among lifelong Catholics that the conversion of defectors such as John Gummer and Ann Widdecombe had been too easily sanctioned by Cardinal Basil Hume, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales. That is unlikely to be the case with Mr Blair since his conversion is clearly the result of a long period of consideration and is not due to a particular grievance. Adults wishing to convert undergo a period of doctrinal and spiritual preparation with a priestly adviser to become catechumens, preparing for admission to the church. They are no longer required to make an abjuration of previous heresy but they do make a profession of faith and belief that they "consciously and freely seek the living God and enter the way of faith and conversion as the Holy Spirit opens their hearts." The rite says candidates are to receive help and attention, so that "with a purified and clearer intention they may cooperate with God's grace." The process takes several stages of indeterminate duration: after the period of evangelisation there follows acceptance into the order of catechumens, then election, when the church ratifies candidates' readiness. A "period of purification and enlightenment" follows, usually on the eve of Easter, followed by the sacraments of initiation and then catechesis as the candidates are allowed to participate fully in the sacraments, such as communion. Although conversions usually take place during the Easter period and in public ceremonies, this need not necessarily be the case if there are special circumstances - which the church could probably find for a former prime minister. #
by alfayoko2005
| 2007-06-23 06:01
| LGB(TIQ)
Japanische Lesbe will ins Parlament
20. Jun 09:43 Homosexuelle Frauen werden in Japan nach wie vor diskriminiert. Eine Oppositions-Politikerin kämpft jedoch für mehr Toleranz. Jahrelang hat Kanako Otsuji innerlich mit sich gerungen. Als Teenager spürte die Japanerin, dass sie lesbisch ist. Doch aus Angst vor Diskriminierung behielt sie es lange für sich. «Ich konnte es selbst nicht akzeptieren», erzählt die inzwischen 32-Jährige. Heute sitzt sie als Politikerin der größten Oppositionspartei des Landes, der Demokratischen Partei Japans (DPJ), in ihrem Wahlkampfbüro in Tokios Schwulen-Viertel im Stadtteil Shinjuku und kämpft für die Anerkennung von Homosexuellen in ihrem Land. Ungeachtet kontroverser Meinungen hat ihre Partei sie als Kandidatin für die Ende Juli geplante Oberhauswahl aufgestellt. Sollte Otsuji ins nationale Parlament einziehen, wäre sie dort der erste offen bekennende homosexuelle Politiker in der Geschichte Japans. «Es ist im alltäglichen Leben in Japan noch immer schwierig, sich zu outen und zu erzählen, was für Probleme Homosexuelle in der Gesellschaft haben», sagt Otsuji im Gespräch. Kultur der Scham Zwar gibt es in großen Städten lebendige Schwulen-Szenen, gegenüber ihren Familien oder Arbeitgebern aber verheimlichen viele ihre sexuelle Orientierung. In Japan ist Homosexualität an sich zwar seit langem akzeptiert, doch wird nicht darüber diskutiert. Im Mittelalter war Homosexualität zum Beispiel unter Samurai ein offenes Geheimnis. Japan sei eine Kultur der Scham und auch Homosexualität habe bisher als etwas gegolten, wofür man sich schämen müsse, sagt Otsuji. Auch wenn es keine offene Feindseligkeit gegenüber Homosexuellen gebe, hinke Japan doch beim Bewusstsein sexueller Vielfalt hinter vielen westlichen Ländern her. Als sich Otsuji vor zwei Jahren als Abgeordnete im Präfekturparlament von Osaka anlässlich einer Gay-Parade «outete», hätten die meisten ihrer Kollegen keine Reaktion gezeigt, erzählt sie, sondern das Thema einfach ignoriert. Regierung setzt auf traditionelle Familie Ihr Wahlkampfeinsatz für die Rechte von Homosexuellen erfolgt zu einer Zeit, da die Regierung des rechtskonservativen Ministerpräsidenten Shinzo Abe im Volk moralische Werte und das Bild von der traditionellen Familie stärken will. In Otsujis Büro steht ein kleines Foto, das sie mit ihrer Partnerin zeigt, beide im weißen Hochzeitskleid. Sie haben kürzlich geheiratet, rechtlich jedoch werden Homosexuellen-Ehen nicht anerkannt. Es gebe kein Gesetz gegen Diskriminierung, beklagt Otsuji. Auch hätten homosexuelle Paare nicht die soziale Absicherung wie andere Ehepaare. So sei es schwierig, einen homosexuellen Partner als Begünstigten einer Lebensversicherung zu benennen. Auch hätten Homosexuelle kein Recht auf das Erbe ihres Partners. Zudem gebe der Staat bisher kein Geld für die Vorbeugung gegen Aids aus, beklagt Otsuji. «Wir verstehen das als Ausdruck von Aversion gegen Homosexualität im Gesundheitsministerium», klagt die Politikerin. Keine Möglichkeit zum Reden Als Abgeordnete in Osaka setzte sie sich mit ihrer Mutter für Angehörige Homosexueller ein. «Familienmitglieder haben da unter Tränen erzählt, wie ihre Erwartungen an ihre eigenen Kinder enttäuscht worden seien, dass sie aber bisher nirgendwo sonst darüber reden konnten», schildert Otsuji. Während es zwar unter männlichen TV-Stars bekennende Schwule gebe, seien Lesben in der Öffentlichkeit bisher gar nicht präsent, sagt die Politikerin. Männer würden bei Lesben allenfalls an Porno-Filme denken. Mit ihrer Kandidatur für die Oberhauswahl will die Japanerin denn auch vor allem erreichen, dass ihre Landsleute überhaupt erst einmal wahrnehmen, dass es Menschen mit gleichgeschlechtlichen Beziehungen gibt. «Wenn ich gewählt werde, würde die Zeit enden, in der man Homosexualität ignoriert hat», sagt Otsuji. Sollte sie allerdings scheitern, sei es ungewiss, wann es wieder einen Parteikandidaten gebe, der für die Rechte von Homosexuellen kämpft. (Lars Nicolaysen, dpa) Asia-Pacific Features Lesbian politician to open closet for Japan's homosexuals By Chie Matsumoto Jun 22, 2007, 13:11 GMT Tokyo - Kanako Otsuji wants to open the closet for Japan's gay and lesbian community in order to increase their visibility and help them gain their basic rights as citizens. The nation's first openly lesbian politician is running for a seat in upper house parliamentary elections in July under the banner of the major opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ). 'I wanted to change Japan through politics, and to do that we (homosexuals) have to become visible,' Otsuji told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa at her campaign office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Nichome district, known as a hub of the homosexual community. Otsuji, then a member of the prefectural assembly in the western Japanese province of Osaka, officially announced her sexual orientation at a Tokyo gay pride parade in August 2005 and in a book published on the same day. Since Japan has no law banning discrimination against homosexuals, many of them fear a backlash and do their best to hide under the blanket of pseudonyms or anonymity. Many Japanese homosexuals feel more comfortable coming out of the closet with their close friends but resist revealing their sexual orientation to their immediate families or to their professional colleagues, Otsuji said. After the 32-year-old politician announced her sexual orientation in 2005, her colleagues at the Osaka prefectural assembly began avoiding her. 'They just didn't know how to react, and they ignored me,' Otsuji said. 'I have met many Japanese people who just regarded us as 'weirdos.'' In Japan, violent hate crimes mostly target gay men, Otsuji said, as seen in a murder case about 10 years ago, when a Japanese gay man was robbed and killed. But lesbians, who tend to be more invisible in society, may just be ignored or, at worst, receive prank calls. Although Otsuji, a Taekwondo master, has not experienced any violent harassment since she announced her candidacy, her campaign office has dealt with protest calls from voters. Otsuji thinks the prejudice against gays and lesbians in Japan lies in how people perceive homosexuality only as 'something to do with what happens in bed,' and not a lifestyle variation. That generates the feeling of shame. When people criticize, they express sympathy for the parents of homosexuals, who they think must feel ashamed of their offspring. Otsuji's mother received bouquets of flowers when her daughter won a seat in the assembly, but no congratulatory messages reached her when Otsuji married her partner. Both women wore white wedding dresses and veils for the wedding earlier this month. The couple received a telegram from the DPJ leader, Ichiro Ozawa, and blessings from their families and friends after they exchanged vows and rings at the ceremony held at the Nagoya Lesbian & Gay Revolution 2007 event in the central Japanese city of Nagoya. 'Japan's discrimination against homosexuals is not based on religion but morality,' Otsuji said in an interview. 'That's why I think the nation can turn 180 degrees as soon as it learns to accept the concept.' Japanese society and the cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe need to realize that forms of family are becoming more diverse, she said. To do that, Otsuji said she must make her presence known in the political arena and try to amend legal protection for more than a million of homosexual Japanese to help them feel secure. 'It is a typical attitude in Japan to try to eradicate differences, but we must realize that we need to flex our sense of values because diversity enriches society,' Otsuji said. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur #
by alfayoko2005
| 2007-06-21 05:07
| LGB(TIQ)
サンパウロで世界最大のゲイパレード
2007年06月11日 17:00 発信地:サンパウロ/ブラジル 【6月11日 AFP】サンパウロ(Sao Paulo)で10日、世界最大規模のゲイパレードが行われ、ゲイやレズビアン、女装や男装など異性の装いを嗜好(しこう)するトランベスタイトなど約300万人(主催者発表)が、市内いっぱいにカラフルな行進を繰り広げた。 羽根飾りを身にまとったドラッグ・クイーンたちや、ゲイを象徴する色であるレインボー・カラーの数千個もの風船がパレードを彩り、トラックに載せられたサウンド・システムからは勢いよく音楽が流れた。 このパレードは、多様な性のあり方への偏見に対する抗議などをメッセージともしており、参加者数では史上最多で、ジルベルト・カサビ(Gilberto Kassab)サンパウロ市長や、ブラジル政府の閣僚数人も参加した。 警察が発表した昨年の参加者数は250万人で、デモ行進の参加者数としてすでに世界最高を記録していた。(c)AFP Millions stage gay parade in Sao Paulo Sun Jun 10, 7:02 PM ET Reuters An estimated 3 million gays, lesbians and transvestites paraded down the main avenue of Brazil's business capital Sao Paulo on Sunday, showing their pride in a blaze of color and festive music, organizers said. "We want people to address machismo, racism and homophobia ... which still exists in Brazil," Nelson Matias Pereira, president of the parade told the official news agency Agencia Brasil, adding that many families took part. The Sao Paulo Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transvestites (GLBT) Parade Association said balmy temperatures of 25 degrees Celsius (77 Fahrenheit) helped draw more than last year's 2.5 million marchers and that the turnout would be a world record. A police estimate was unavailable, but nearly 900 officers were on duty to help maintain order. On a five-day visit to Brazil, the world's most populous Catholic country, Pope Benedict attracted less than 1 million to listen to his calls to reinforce traditional family values. During Sunday's parade, bands played on 23 "trios eletricos," or huge trucks, with their music blasted from massive loudspeakers. For their 11th parade, the gays received official backing for the first time. Brazil's ministers for Tourism and Sport, Marta Suplicy and Orlando Silva, attended the parade. The governor of Sao Paulo state, Jose Serra, and city mayor Gilberto Kassab were also there. Sponsors included Brazil's state energy company Petrobras and the state-owned Caixa Economica Federal bank. The parade is seen as a major cash cow, attracting large numbers of Brazilian and foreign visitors, who boost the receipts of hotels, restaurants and shops. A study this year by consumer research consultants Insearch found that Brazilian gays were above-average wage earners and spent 40 percent more on leisure than heterosexuals. ブラジル:世界最大級のゲイ・パレード=300万人参加、差別なき世界訴え-サンパウロ #
by alfayoko2005
| 2007-06-11 22:29
| LGB(TIQ)
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