Archive for: April 18, 2008

April 18, 2008

Harvey Milk, the first gay hero

Filed under: Gay rights - 18 Apr 2008

Harvey Bernard Milk (22 May 1930 – 27 November 1978) was an American politician and gay rights activist, and the first openly gay city supervisor of San Francisco, California. He was, according to Time magazine, “the first openly gay man …

Barcelona opens the largest space devoted to gay tourism

Filed under: Travel - 18 Apr 2008

The International Tourism Fair of Catalonia opened its doors today with a novelty. For the first time it includes the Pink Corner, the largest space devoted to gay tourism in Europe, where 50 companies and entities in the sector participate.

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The first gay civil union in Uruguay

Filed under: Gay rights - 18 Apr 2008

Uruguayan Justice issued the first ruling of civil union (the equivalent of a marriage) of a homosexual couple, three months after the Uruguay became the first Latin American country to state the equality of the unions of equal or opposite …