Could you please explain to us your fascination with and reasond for
multiple posts about gays in the news? Not does this have nothing at all to
do with the news group topics, it seems to indicate you have an obsession
with homosexuals.
Kindly post a well-thought-out response.



Lord Floyd wrote in message
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BERLIN, June 28 (AFP) - From Paris to Zagreb, one and a half million
people
paraded through the streets of European cities on Saturday to celebrate
tolerance and equal rights for the gay community, organisers said.
More than 600,000 massed in the streets of Berlin for the 25th
edition of
the Gay Pride parade, this year headed up by the city's mayor Klaus
Wowereit,
who revealed his own homosexuality to the public in 2001.
Clutching a pink teddy bear and a bunch of red roses, Wowereit said
the
march was both a celebration and a political event, aimed at furthering
the
rights of the gay community.
"There is no reason to hide," said Wowereit, who publicly came out
with the
snappy catchphrase, "I'm gay and it's just as good that way", which has
since
become a rallying cry for the gay community.
Festooned in bright colours, 60 floats and a crowd of scantily-clad
paraders headed towards the city centre to listen to speeches later in
the
evening.
In Paris, between 500,000 and 700,000 people joined the annual
march,
organised by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transexual communities, as
it
wound up through the city centre to the Place de la Republique,
organisers
said.
In a carnival atmosphere, wearing everything from a green butterfly
suit to
a sailor's outfit or Venetian mask, the paraders marched under a canopy
of
balloons, brandishing banners demanding equal rights for their
community.
The march had high-profile backing from a number of personalities,
including Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe -- himself gay -- former culture
minister Jack lang, and the first right-wing lawmaker to officially
join the
parade, Jean-Luc Romero.
Delanoe called for the adoption of a law criminalising homophobic
acts and
remarks, saying it was time for parliament to act against homophobia.
Former Socialist prime minister Laurent Fabius stressed the
importance of
furthering gay parenting rights, and suggested taking constitutional
measures
to guarantee those rights.
"It would be good to show that the French people are against all
forms of
discrimination and homophobia in particular," he said at the march.
In Vienna, some 200,000 people, many festooned in the rainbow
colours of
the gay community, marched to celebrate homosexual rights and urge the
government to act against discrimination.
In the Croatian capital Zagreb, some 200 people gathered for the
country's
second ever Gay Pride march, parading through the city centre under a
rainbow
banner, and with a tight police escort.
The march, organised by two Croatian gay organisations, was more a
political rally than a celebration, with many bystanders in this
fervently
Catholic society visibly hostile towards the demonstrators.
Meanwhile in France, a new survey showed that tolerance towards
homosexuality is on the increase.
Sixty-one percent of people said they would react well if they
discovered
their child was homosexual, up from 41 percent in 1995, the survey
carried out
by polling institute IFOP and published by Le Monde newspaper revealed.
Conversely, 36 percent of people would react badly to the news, down
from
56 percent eight years ago, the results showed.
Fifty-five percent of reposndents were in favour of homosexual
marriages,
although 59 percent would deny homosexual couples adoption rights.
Responses varied considerably by age group, with 60 percent of 15-
24
year-olds in favour of gay adoption rights, compared to 18 percent of
over
65s, according to the survey of 1,019 people conducted in June.