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June 19, 2010 Posted by GorgeousBoys in Celebrations

Quarter Of A Million People Celebrated Gay Pride In Berlin

Tens of thousands of gays, lesbians and other revelers are marching and dancing in downtown Berlin for the German capital's annual gay pride celebration, which features a colorful parade through the heart of the city. Under the motto "Normal is different," an estimated 250,000 people lined the route for the Christopher Street Day parade Saturday, as some 50 floats carrying dancers wove through the city streets. Christopher Street Day commemorates the start of the gay rights movement in New York's Greenwich Village in 1969 and the parade generally draws large crowds in Berlin, which has a history as a gay metropolis going back as far as the 19th century. The official Berlin Gay Pride Website




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November 22, 2009 Posted by GorgeousBoys in News And Scoops

Gay Spy Trial Rocks Germany

spy_gay_germanyA trial opened in Germany on Wednesday with all the elements of a 21st century spy thriller: the Balkan criminal underworld, leaking of state secrets and careless pillow-talk to a gay lover. Officially, the details are sketchy, but according to media reports, the tale began when former soldier Anton K, now 42, was posted to Kosovo in 2005, officially to work for the German foreign ministry. In reality, however, the real job of K, whose full name has not been released, was to set up a network of informants on behalf of the German secret service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), reports say. In doing so, he recruited a Macedonian man who said he grew up in Germany, Murat A, now 29, to be an interpreter and translator, an appointment approved by BND headquarters after background security checks. The working relationship continued for two years, and in 2007 K's job was extended for two years, but he failed to mention to his superiors the nature of their personal relationship: they had became lovers and had moved in together. The first that the BND heard of this was when K's wife, whom he had left behind in Germany with their children, revealed he had changed his life insurance policy, replacing her name with his interpreter's as the beneficiary. The BND then alerted prosecutors, and the two were arrested after being summoned back to Germany on false pretences in March 2008. K was handcuffed and bundled into an unmarked car by plain-clothes police at a suburban train station, while his alleged accomplice was arrested at his hotel. Both men were released the next day because of a lack of evidence to hold them for longer, press reports said. They then both spent 40 days in custody in March and April this year. The couple now live near Stuttgart. According to a statement from federal prosecutors in August, K divulged classified information to his interpreter. Spiegel magazine reported that this included information obtained by British agents, and that K revealed it "in the bedroom" or by allowing his lover access to his laptop computer. The latter "then intended to pass this information on either to people in the area of organised crime in Macedonia or to foreign intelligence agencies", federal prosecutors said. For the defence, however, the two men are victims of a homophobic witch-hunt within the BND, which has been deeply embarrassed by the affair, not least because it gave the interpreter clearance. It now claims that he has links to organised crime, and since the affair broke, the BND has reportedly been forced to sever contacts with at least 19 information sources in the Balkans. "There is no evidence to suggest that my client passed on information," the interpreter's lawyer Christian Stuenkel was quoted as saying in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily. In the end prosecutors may only be able to convict them on charges of fiddling their expenses to the tune of close to 15,000 euro ($24,000), reports said. Story From AFP
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September 29, 2009 Posted by TheBoss in News And Scoops

Germany's Likely Next Foreign Minister Openly Gay
In this July 25, 2009 file picture, Guido Westerwelle, chairman of the German Free Democratic Party, right, and his companion Michael Mronz, left, pose.

In this July 25, 2009 file picture, Guido Westerwelle, chairman of the German Free Democratic Party, right, and his companion Michael Mronz, left, pose.

Guido Westerwelle and his gay partner are Germany's new "power couple" — at least according to the nation's leading daily, which splashed a photo of the pair hugging on election night on the front-page above the fold in Tuesday's paper.   The ringing endorsement for the 47-year-old Westerwelle, who is widely expected to be tapped for the high-profile post of foreign minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel's new government, in the Bild daily also highlighted his personal life in a way he rarely has. "His man makes him so strong," Bild wrote about Westerwelle, declaring that his 42-year-old partner Michael Mronz was not only his most important adviser during the campaign, but also "gives him security and ... supports him when he suffers a setback." Despite eight years as leader of the pro-business Free Democrats, Westerwelle's homosexuality has generated relatively little discussion. But with his party set to become kingmaker to Chancellor Merkel's conservatives and him foreign minister, it has been thrust into the spotlight. On Monday, a local official had to apologize for an anti-gay remark he made about Westerwelle on election night. Peter Langner, the city treasurer of the western city of Duisburg and a Social Democrat, had said that "I don't want a gay foreign minister." Germans have been generally tolerant of openly gay politicians and others have paved the way, including Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who already declared back in 2001 that "I'm gay, and it's good that way." While Westerwelle's certainly no gay activist, he has said before that his lifestyle may be "encouraging for some young gays." "I can only tell all young gays and lesbians to not be disheartened, if not everything goes their way," Westerwelle told the Berlin's gay magazine Siegessaeule this month. "This society is changing for the good in the direction of tolerance and respect ... though slower than I would wish." Westerwelle has been known to be gay since 2004, when he brought his partner to Merkel's 50th birthday party. "I've never been hiding my life," Westerwelle said back then. "I just lived it." Mronz, who met Westerwelle in 2003 according to Bild, is an event manager who also organized the athletic world championship in Berlin this summer. He recently joined the Free Democrats, saying that after having listened to 120 speeches of his partner, "I am completely convinced." Westerwelle, who has led the Free Democrats since 2001, also spoke out for stronger civil rights during the election campaign and has criticized in the past that German law does not give complete adoption rights to gay couples. The Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany welcomed Westerwelle's victory and hoped his election would become a motor for gay rights in Germany. "We think it's awesome that it has become so normal that an openly gay man becomes foreign minister," said Klaus Jetz, the head of the association, adding that the gay community expected him to advocate gay rights in Germany and abroad as well. "It's important that as foreign minister he will openly talk about human rights and the persecution of gays and lesbians in other countries." STORY FROM: The Associated Press
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