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

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• WHAT IS QUEER CYPS?QUEER CYPS IS A CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENT THAT STARTED OFF AS “INIATIVE AGAST HOMOPHOBIA” 2008 ORR TO CHANGE DISCRIMATORY LAW THE NORTH PART OF CYPS AND TO MOLD PUBLIC OPN REGARDS TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX RIGHTS AND EEDOM. THE MOVEMENT, WHICH WAS RENAMED QUEER CYPS 2012, FIGHTS FOR A WORLD WHICH DIVIDUALS DO NOT FACE DISCRIMATN BASED ON THEIR LANGUAGE, RELIG BELIEF, LOR, NATNALY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY, SEXUAL EXPRSN, AGE OR ETHNICY. THEREFORE, THE QUEER CYPS MOVEMENT EMBRAC DIVERSY, OPPOS ALL MECHANISMS OF PRSURE AND HAS A FEMIST, ANTIARIST, ELOGIST AND VEGANIST NATURE. AIMS OF THE ASSOCIATNCOMBATG DISCRIMATN BASED ON GENR, GENR EXPRSN, SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND/OR GENR INTY; PREVENTG HOMOPHOBIA, BIPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA; PROTECTG THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX DIVIDUALS; AND ANIZG PEACEFUL EVENTS ORR TO RAISE AWARENS ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX ISSU.VISN & MISSN OF THE ASSOCIATN
• CYPS'S FIRST GAY PRI MARCH WILL HIGHLIGHT LACK OF RIGHTS
• GAY CYPS · ISLAND GUI
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

WHAT IS QUEER CYPS?QUEER CYPS IS A CIVIL SOCIETY MOVEMENT THAT STARTED OFF AS “INIATIVE AGAST HOMOPHOBIA” 2008 ORR TO CHANGE DISCRIMATORY LAW THE NORTH PART OF CYPS AND TO MOLD PUBLIC OPN REGARDS TO LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS AND INTERSEX RIGHTS AND EEDOM. THE MOVEMENT, WHICH WAS RENAMED QUEER CYPS 2012, FIGHTS FOR A WORLD WHICH DIVIDUALS DO NOT FACE DISCRIMATN BASED ON THEIR LANGUAGE, RELIG BELIEF, LOR, NATNALY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY, SEXUAL EXPRSN, AGE OR ETHNICY. THEREFORE, THE QUEER CYPS MOVEMENT EMBRAC DIVERSY, OPPOS ALL MECHANISMS OF PRSURE AND HAS A FEMIST, ANTIARIST, ELOGIST AND VEGANIST NATURE. AIMS OF THE ASSOCIATNCOMBATG DISCRIMATN BASED ON GENR, GENR EXPRSN, SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND/OR GENR INTY; PREVENTG HOMOPHOBIA, BIPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA; PROTECTG THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX DIVIDUALS; AND ANIZG PEACEFUL EVENTS ORR TO RAISE AWARENS ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND INTERSEX ISSU.VISN & MISSN OF THE ASSOCIATN

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Homosexual activy Cyps is legal. Current statSce May 21, 1998Legal Homosexualy legalised followg the European Court of Human Rights se of Modos v.

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

Current statSce May 1, 2004Legal LGBT people are allowed to serve openly unr new l brought to place when Cyps joed the European UnnIllegalIllegal due to the Mistry of Defence viewg homosexualy as mental donatns by MSMs Cyps? UnequalAge of nsent for homosexual upl set at 18 vers 16 for heterosexual upl. Queer Cyps is a civil society movement that started off as “Iniative Agast Homophobia” 2008 orr to change discrimatory law the north part of Cyps and to mold public opn regards to Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex rights and eedom.

Therefore, the Queer Cyps movement embrac diversy, oppos all mechanisms of prsure and has a femist, antiarist, elogist and veganist of the AssociatnCombatg discrimatn based on genr, genr exprsn, sexual orientatn and/or genr inty; preventg homophobia, biphobia and transphobia; protectg the Universal Human Rights and Freedom of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex dividuals; and anizg peaceful events orr to raise awarens on Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Intersex & Missn of the AssociatnWhile acplishg s missn, the Associatn operat a non-vlent, peaceful manner;a. To support LGBTI rights; to unter discrimatn based on genr, genr exprsn, sexual orientatn and genr inty; to anize, participate , and ntribute to activi regardg homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, human rights and eedom, soc-polics, tn, health, fay, science, art, culture, history, sports, cema, theatre and siar and/or related fields, b. The Queer Cyps Associatn believ that not beg ternalized by the palist system for reasons such as homosexual upl not beg able to reproduce, not beg clud /not requtg to be a part of ary n be seen as an advantage and the associatn will not take part pk washg which has recently bee popular.

15070/89) ECHR 22 Apr 1993, clarified and crimalized private homosexual acts between nsentg adults.

GAY CYPS · ISLAND GUI

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 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. “Nothg has happened to improve the legal rights of LGBT sce 1998, ” said Costas Gavrielis, head of Accept LGBT Cyps, a group reprentg some 700 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.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

We believe that society has moved on much more than policians, ” Gavrielis said, addg that many heterosexual supporters were also expected to jo the march through the pal sectns of Cyprt society still nsir homosexualy taboo, and the island’s nservative Orthodox Church has scribed as an “illns which needs treatment” Church’s lg body said a recent statement that opposed the “stutnal and social acceptance” of homosexualy, which was not a “normal way of life”. A relig group said plans a unter march on only repealed laws crimals homosexualy 1998, five years after a lone activist won a damng judgment agast the untry om the European Court of Human Rights. A gay pri march was held there on May Internatnal Gay and Lbian Associatn (ILGA) ranks Cyps among the lowt of all European untri for rights extend to the LGBT Gavrielis said social attus were changg, and that the Pri march would brg the island’s gay muny “to the limelight” and stimulate wir bate about the rights of mori.

To the south is the pal of the Republic of SceneCyps is a gay-popular statn, although island's LGBT muny and gay scene may e a b short of expectatn.

The island has one gay sna, Vci Sna. Other LGBT-iendly and gay-owned tablishments n be found all over the port cy of Larna has a lively bar & nightlife scene along Mackenzie Beach. Limassol is home to The Elysium Bar Complex, loted 20 mut' drive om the cy centre (off the road towards Germasogeia) pal cy of Nisia has some gay venu and an open-air cisg spot the Natnal Garns equented by Turkish Cyprts.