Cyps's first gay pri march will highlight lack of rights

Contents:

• GAY PRI EVENTS CYPS
• THOANDS MARCH CYPS' FIRST GAY PRI, SEEKG EQUAL RIGHTS
• STEPHEN FRY, BRISH COMEDIAN, ON CYPS' GAY PRI PARA
• CYPS'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH WILL HIGHLIGHT LACK OF RIGHTS

GAY PRI EVENTS CYPS

Pri events are ually held June honour of the Stonewall rts rponse to a police raid on June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall n gay bar New York cy.

[1/4]Participants attend the annual Gay Pri para central Nisia, Cyps September 25, 2022.

THOANDS MARCH CYPS' FIRST GAY PRI, SEEKG EQUAL RIGHTS

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

The day nclus at the Municipal Garns of Nisia wh a mic and food ftival, where kids and adults n let loose and have a great 2016’s Pri march the streets of Nisia | Photo by ACCEPTA Brief History of PriIn June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village. This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement. Image source, RtersImage ptn, Protters broke through a police rdon to stop the Pri eventUp to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters stormed a gay pri ftival Geia's pal Tbilisi on Saturday, forcg s right-wg protters, who clud Orthodox Christian clergy, scuffled wh police, shed the stage and burned rabow anisers and Geia's print blamed anti-LGBT hate speech that preced the event, and said the police had failed to protect ftival-goers.

STEPHEN FRY, BRISH COMEDIAN, ON CYPS' GAY PRI PARA

Homophobia remas rife Geia. NICOSIA (Rters) - Thoands of people marched Cyps’ first gay pri para on Saturday, llg for equal rights a untry where homosexualy is still vehemently opposed by an fluential Orthodox rabow flags, more than 3, 500 people of all ag marched peacefully through the streets of the Cyprt pal where earlier a much smaller, anti-gay group clashed wh police. ”Cyps crimalize homosexualy 1998, five years after a lone activist won a damng judgment agast the untry om the European Court of Human Rights.

Sixteen years on, activists say Cyps still lags far behd s European Unn peers terms of rights for gay people, and has been slow pursug legislatn on civil upl Cyps do not have the same rights to social hog and other benefs as heterosexuals and miss out on other entlements such as beg nsulted over medil treatment if a partner is ill. “There is one love, and our love serv equal regnn before the law, ” said Gabi Calleja of ILGA Europe, an advocy group for lbians and gays. Shortly before the gay pri started, about 200 people, cludg clerics, held a noisy prott outsi the island’s parliament.

Some scuffl broke island’s nservative Orthodox Church had nounced the gay pri, llg homosexualy an “illns”.

CYPS'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH WILL HIGHLIGHT LACK OF RIGHTS

A pamphlet issued by anizers of the unter-monstratn, a relig group, scribed homosexualy as a mortal s.

One plard said acceptance of homosexualy would turn Cyps, once known as an “island of sats” to an “island of savag” gay pri was one of the largt march seen Cyps several years, bigger than prott gathergs over Cyps’s tumultuo fancial bailout 2013. PkUk have a total of 844 LGBTQ+ pris and gay events 56.

Townhoe Exeter Exeter, Devon, UKTownhoe Exeter is a gay-owned, gay-iendly, 9-bedroom guthoe tucked away a quiet rner of Exeter's cy centre. We are a young gay uple providg highly mend bed & breakfast [... Same-sex marriage remas illegal on the island where homosexualy was crimalised 1998.

Brish actor Stephen Fry has e out support of Cyps's first gay pri para after a Christian group vowed to monstrate and the church voiced s nmnatn of homosexualy.

To regnise the natural, unthreateng nature of homosexualy, " said the, who is openly homosexual, has mpaigned for gay rights across the world, notably an actor, he leapt to fame for his rol Brish cult TV seri "Blackadr", "Not the Ne O'Clock News" and "Jeev" for his rol as a posh-speakg Brish butler, his film creds clu "The Hobb" and "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers". A ge group lled the Cyps Christian Orthodox Movement has announced a unter-monstratn on the same day and at the same lotn central Nisia as the gay fluential Cyps Orthodox Church has also reacted negatively to gays takg to the streets, sayg "regretted the behavur and liftyle of some of our fellow men" word of God nmns homosexualy and such relatnships are a "moral aberratn", the church said, addg was not "a normal liftyle choice" Fry urged all rints of the Mederranean island to support the march.

"I enurage all Cyprts of whatever sexualy to jo the Pri March to show their support for an open, ee, tolerant and enlightened Cyps, " said -- LGBT Cyps (lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr) says is holdg the march and a ftival to bat prejudice agast "10 percent of the populatn, hence agast 85, 000 Cyprt patrts" bills are currently before the Cyps parliament that would allow same-sex civil partnerships and crimalise anti-gay hate speech.

By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Rters) - Cyps's first Gay Pri march on Saturday will highlight the lack of legal rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) cizens 16 years after homosexualy was crimalised. Gay upl Cyps do not have the same rights to social hog and other benefs as heterosexuals and miss out on other entlements such as beg nsulted over medil treatment if a partner is ill. He noted that the ernment, elected early 2013, had still not ma good on a mpaign pledge to subm legislatn to allow gay civil partnerships to parliament wh a year.