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	Rights Encyclopedia Article @ PlanetSeller.com (Planet Seller) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For instance, the rights of a father to be respected by his son did not indicate a duty upon the father to return that respect, and the Quick Index to hold absolute power over their subjects did not leave room for many rights to be granted to the subjects themselves.
		It is not generally considered necessary that a right should be understood by the holder of that right; thus rights may be recognized on behalf of another, such as Group rights or the rights of people declared mentally incompetent to understand their rights.
		Rights can be divided into Social contract, that are held by citizens as individuals (or Animal rights) recognised by the legal system, and jus primae noctis, held by an ensemble of citizens or a subgroup of citizens who have a certain characteristic in common.
	www.planetseller.com /encyclopedia/Rights (1648 words)

	Rights Encyclopedia Article @ Troubling.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For instance, the rights of a father to be respected by his son did not indicate a duty upon the father to return that respect, and the Dual-citizen to hold absolute power over their subjects did not leave room for many rights to be granted to the subjects themselves.
		It is not generally considered necessary that a right should be understood by the holder of that right; thus rights may be recognized on behalf of another, such as contractual rights or the rights of people declared mentally incompetent to understand their rights.
		Rights can be divided into edit, that are held by citizens as individuals (or Persons) recognised by the legal system, and freedoms, held by an ensemble of citizens or a subgroup of citizens who have a certain characteristic in common.
	www.troubling.net /encyclopedia/Rights (1616 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Special Issues and Campaigns: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights
		Although the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people throughout the world continued to rise in 2001, their increased visibility was accompanied by attacks based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
		The rights of sexual minorities also came under attack at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights where delegates objected to the inclusion of cases of extrajudicial executions of sexual minorities in the report of the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, and arbitrary executions.
		In Finland, a new law allowed gays and lesbians to register as couples and obtain some of the same benefits previously reserved for married couples or relatives, such as the right to inherit property and to visit if one partner was hospitalized.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/lgbt.html (3164 words)

	2002 in gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		May 6 - Openly gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by Volkert van der Graaf.
		Austria's Article 209 of the Penal Code was removed equalising the age of consent at 14.
		These rights are only given to same-sex couples who live in Zurich canton and who register with the government, promising to live together and support each other for six months.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2002_in_gay_rights (269 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Women's Human Rights
		The international women's rights community moved forward, pressing to protect women's bodily integrity and right to sexual autonomy, to examine the ways that race or ethnicity and gender intersect to deny women human rights, and to protect women from gender-specific violations of the laws of war.
		Women's rights activists in Morocco continued their long standing campaign to eliminate discriminatory provisions in the personal status code under which Moroccan women continued to be discriminated against with respect to legal standing, marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
		Women's rights activists found that many of these steps were tentative and inconsistent, and hoped that the international community's concern for women's rights in Afghanistan would be long-lasting and would result in stepped-up efforts to recognize women's human rights violations and curtail them also in other parts of the world.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/women.html (7976 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Mundo \| History of Gay Israel — Queer in the Land of Sodom
		The first gay organization was established in 1975, thanks largely to the work of immigrants from the United States and other English-speaking countries influenced by the development of gay liberation and the counterculture of the 1960's.
		Previously, the Israeli gay movement had shunned transgendered people, fearing what their inclusion would do to its public image, but with Dana receiving congratulatory telegrams from the Prime Minister and being made an honorary ambassador by the Knesset, it was now "safe" for the movement to expand its focus.
		The Israeli LGBT movement has not embraced feminism (in fact, sexism and tensions between gay men and lesbians are both quite prevalent), and until recently, the place of gay Arabs in the community was neglected, reflecting the wider society's indifference to Israel's Arab minority (some 20 percent of Israel's population).
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/020220_gay_israel_history.html (1573 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - 'Flaming queen' defends gay rights - Saturday \| July 27, 2002
		Cooke complains that gays do not, or choose not to grasp that we are infringing on 'his' rights while flaunting 'our lifestyles' in his and his family's faces.
		He further claims to know what 'rights' the gay community, especially the men, are fighting for while sensationalising the "Scout Leader" anecdote.
		I quote: "Where that (homosexual) right to private sexual choice becomes an attempt to foist such behaviour on me and my family, we are going to have a problem." One wonders how many homosexuals would find a supposedly heterosexual man with a family, desirable.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020727/letters/letters2.html (648 words)

	Ciruli Associates - Colorado Politics - Polls - Research - Public Policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The shift toward the legality of private consenting sexual behavior for gays and lesbians in both national and Colorado data from 1992 to 2002 is statistically significant (Gallup did not report data on the question in 1993).
		The intense news cycle of gay rights coverage, which began in the summer of 2003 with the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision (Goodridge vs. Massachusetts) to recognize gay marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court striking down a Texas anti-sodomy law (Lawrence vs. Texas), coincided with a conservative shift in gay rights opinion.
		Gay rights is one of the most controversial and volatile issues in American politics.
	www.ciruli.com /archives/amend2-10yrs/amend2-704.htm (2672 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Same Sex Rights
		Also, a ruling against gay marriages is expected to be heard in B.C. by the province's Court of Appeal in early 2003, and a judge in Montreal is to rule on a similar case.
		A gay and lesbian group goes to trial against the federal government in an attempt to force Ottawa to extend survivor benefits to excluded gays and lesbians.
		The Quebec Court of Appeal rules that homosexuals have the right to marry, and that the traditional definition of marriage is discriminatory and unjustified.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/samesexrights/timeline_canada.html (4326 words)

	Gay & Lesbian Research Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"This book is designed to help lesbian and gay couples understand the laws that affect them and to take charge of the legal aspects of their lives." Topics discussed include marriage and domestic partners, legal aspects of parenting, medical emergencies, estate planning, living together contracts, real estate ventures, and divorce.
		Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history.
		Provides an overview of gay and lesbian rights issues; a chronology of important events; biographical sketches of important figures in the debate; public statements, laws, and court cases; and lists of print and non-print resources.
	www.library.yale.edu /~bturner/gayles/gayrights.html (423 words)

	Gay-rights law has divided Tacoma's churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And because many of the churches opposed to gay rights are mostly fl, the issue also illuminates the uneasy rift between fl churches and African Americans who are gay and lesbian.
		One point of seeming inconsistency is that most of the denominations that support the gay rights law do not allow the ordination of gays and lesbians in their own churches.
		This troubles many gay African Americans, who say fl churches, because of their fight for civil rights, should be more supportive of gay rights.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/93584_gayrights31.shtml (1270 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Gay rights vs my rights - Thursday \| July 25, 2002
		THERE IS a distinction between rights and privileges which infringes on other people's rights that the gay community does not or chooses not to grasp.
		I would expect that a parent has the right for their son not to be led off on an overnight camping trip by a man who has declared himself a homosexual.
		Where that right to private sexual choice becomes an attempt to foist such behaviour on me and my family, we are going to have a problem and I believe I am well within my rights to take firm action against same.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020725/cleisure/cleisure3.html (766 words)

	PUERTO RICO HERALD: Gay-Rights Movement Growing In Puerto Rico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The presence of Pro-Life at Puerto Rico's 12th annual gay-pride parade was only the latest evidence of the growing conflict between an increasingly vocal gay-rights movement and a similarly rising opposition campaign on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean island.
		On one side, gay-rights activists say homosexuals feel persecuted in a society in which homosexuality remains illegal and politicians still try to score votes by starting rumors that their rivals are gay.
		In a parade organized by a coalition of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and transsexual groups calling itself the Rainbow Pride Coalition, hundreds marched the main strip of the hotel district of Condado, which were adorned for the occasion with rainbow flags.
	www.puertorico-herald.org /issues/2002/vol6n24/GayRights-en.shtml (589 words)

	Left In Lowell » Gay Rights
		Usually, what winds up happening in civil rights cases is that the Supreme Court is morally and socially ahead of the public and the legislature, as it was when it ruled that under our state constitution, gays have a legal right to marry (any rights not explicitly denied and all that).
		Gay marriage in Massachusetts is entirely a civil institution; no one is asking any religion to give up its freedom of assembly - despite the fact we’d love to see them join the 21st century, it’s not our place to tell them what to do.
		It’s not the end of the battle for gay rights, but a Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of a gay couple from Rhode Island that they have a right to marry in Massachusetts.
	www.leftinlowell.com /category/gay-rights (2995 words)

	RightsNews Online: Fall 2002
		The opening session of the first Annual Human Rights Colloquium, which was held for the first time in São Paulo, Brazil in May 2001, was convened in the TUCA Theater.
		In a panel on the right to health, Amelia Cohn of CEDEC argued that many societies define a citizen as someone who participates formally in the economy.
		As participants were exposed to a broader vision of human rights, they began to question previous strategies as well as their own ideas of what should be included in the definition of human rights.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/humanrights/publications/rn/rn_2002_8.htm (1273 words)

	Elderly Advocates Raise Concerns about the Rights of Older Gay Couples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Opponents of gay marriage argue that couples can enter into legal arrangements that will protect their rights in the case of illness or death without undermining a fundamental societal institution.
		According to figures the Human Rights Campaign plans to release in full next week, one in five gay couples in Massachusetts is made up of at least one person who is 55 years or older.
		Under state law, according to advocates for the elderly, the spouse of someone entering a nursing home is protected from the loss of their home, which could otherwise be seen by the state as an asset to pay for care.
	www.globalaging.org /elderrights/us/2004/oldergay.htm (542 words)

	CBS News \| Gay Linguists Get The Boot \| November 14, 2002 18:16:32
		The soldiers' dismissals come at a time when the military is facing a critical shortage of translators and interpreters for the war on terrorism.
		Seven of the soldiers were discharged after telling superiors they are gay, and the two others got in trouble when they were caught together after curfew, said Steve Ralls, spokesman for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a group that defends homosexuals in the military.
		One of the discharged linguists said the military's policy on gays is hurting its cause.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/11/14/attack/main529418.shtml (394 words)

	Struggling for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Venezuela
		He works in the office for the promotion of social rights in Alcaldia in Caracas and is also the coordinator of the Bolivarian Network of Homosexuals, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transexuals and Transgenders, and a strong campaigner against what he describes as the "Catholic neo-inquisition".
		gays and lesbians of this country continue to be assaulted, mistreated and in some cases assassinated and there is no system that guarantees our defence".
		Gay pride marches were previously impeded by the right.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1622 (1245 words)

	afrol News - South African gay couples achieving equal rights
		Again, the gay rights provided for in the Constitution were the basis of the ruling.
		With or without the right to marry, gay and lesbian couples are slowly assuring themselves of the same rights as married couples.
		Besides the rights of non-discrimination and adopting children, same-sex couples are struggling to achieve the same economic security as heterosexual married couples.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/sa016_gays_adopt.htm (627 words)

	Power Line: Mitt Romney and gay rights
		But a Massachusetts gay newspaper accuses Romney of having "a secret gay history," by which it means that he has taken some political positions sympathetic to gay rights.
		Moreover, as a candidate for governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts in 2002, Romney told gay rights activists that he opposed same-sex marriages although, according to the article, some of the activists did not take him to mean he was inexorably opposed.
		Thus, if a Republican politician is friendly toward gays, appoints gays to office, speaks of protecting their civil rights, etc., this is viewed as somehow at odds with, say, opposition to gay marriage.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/016159.php (531 words)

	2003 in gay rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Statistics from the FBI show that 16.7 percent of hate crimes committed in the United States in 2002 were due to bias against the victim's perceived sexual orientation, the highest rate in the 12 years federal records have been kept.
		October 29 - A Human Rights Campaign study shows 60 percent of American adoption agencies accept applications from gay and lesbian couples and 40 percent claim to have placed children in homes headed by same-sex couples.
		The first gay pride parade in Republic of China is held in Taipei.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2003_in_gay_rights (849 words)

	Lesbian & Gay Parents
		Beliefs that lesbian and gay adults are not fit parents likewise have no empirical foundation (Anderssen, Amlie, and Ytteroy, 2002; Brewaeys and van Hall, 1997; Parks, 1998; Patterson, 2000; Patterson and Chan, 1996; Perrin, 2002; Stacey and Biblarz, 2001; Tasker, 1999; Victor and Fish, 1995).
		Research on gay fathers likewise suggests that they are likely to divide the work involved in child care relatively evenly and that they are happy with their couple relationships (Johnson and O'Connor, 2002; McPherson, 1993).
		Photos used in Lesbian and Gay Parenting are courtesy of Family Diversity Projects © Gigi Kaeser from the traveling photo-text exhibit and book, LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Their Families.
	www.apa.org /pi/lgbc/publications/lgplgparents.html (543 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force has a new task: to counter what the organization’s leaders see as an increasingly aggressive right-wing, anti-gay movement in the state of Florida.
		The Task Force, which is the nation’s oldest gay rights group, recently opened and staffed a permanent office in Miami.
		But he was encouraged in 2002 when gay rights forces successfully defended the county’s human rights ordinance against a ballot initiative to remove its gay protections.
	www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=1594 (842 words)

	Gay rights bill may make history in state Senate
		The state's Republican controlled upper house is due to vote today on the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act, or Sonda, a bill first introduced more than three decades ago and passed each of the last 10 years in the Democrat-controlled Assembly.
		Before this week, the bill's fate was more tenuous as transgender groups, representing transsexuals and cross-dressers, among others, threatened to have the bill axed unless they too were specifically included.
		Many from those groups are expected in Albany today to continue their push, but the bill to be voted on isn't expected to change.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2002/12/17/onsgay.htm (538 words)

	Gay Parents' Rights Backed
		NASW joined other professional associations in filing friend-of-the-court briefs in three cases involving child welfare and the rights of lesbian and gay parents.
		The three briefs reflect the position taken by NASW in its revised policy statement on lesbian, gay and bisexual issues, which urges the association to work in coalitions for laws that recognize the legal rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual relationships.
		Additionally, NASW joined 54 children's advocacy, religious, social service, labor, women's and community-based organizations in filing a brief on behalf of a woman in Pennsylvania seeking application of custody and visitation rights to a child she raised with her lesbian partner equal to those that would extend to a person in a heterosexual relationship.
	www.socialworkers.org /pubs/news/2002/01/gay.htm (543 words)

	Lesbian and Gay Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The ACLU of Florida and the National ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project is currently challenging this discriminatory ban, which is based largely on hostility toward gays and lesbians.
		Working with our allies in the civil and human rights movement, the ACLU of Florida also worked for the passage of anti-discrimination laws in Orlando, Sarasota, and St. Petersburg, and is part of an effort to enact a broad anti-discrimination ordinance in Collier County.
		We must continue to remain vigilant by defending gay rights laws that protect against discrimination and by lobbying in favor of domestic partnership policies in cities and towns across the state.
	www.aclufl.org /issues/lesbian_gay_rights/index.cfm (302 words)

	Keith Devens - Weblog: Gay rights bill passes in NY - December 18, 2002
		A much better subject to have as a starting point for this is gay marriage (which I think NY has also made decisions on recently).
		To me it's not a system of ethics at all for something that's right one day to be wrong the next and vice versa.
		I guess why I'm annoyed with this whole argument is because I have gay friends who I consider some of the finest people I know, and for a person to have never met them yet consider them immoral for their bedroom habits.
	keithdevens.com /weblog/archive/2002/Dec/18/GayRightsBillPassesNY (1004 words)

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