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Talking PointAs a gay rights group shuts down, chairman says Czech gays and lesbians must catch up with the tolerant society around them
After seventeen years in the movement, Jiri Hromada is moving on. Last week
he announced that Gay Iniciativa, the lesbian and gay rights group he has
led for the past seven years, is closing down. Already, the little alcove
off of his bedroom, which once served as Gay Iniciativa's main office, has
been tidied up and is beginning to look more like an ordinary study. More
One on OneTereza Kodickova - registered partnership matter of recognition for gays
Rob Cameron's guest in One on One this week is Tereza Kodickova,
spokesperson for the Gay and Lesbian League. On Tuesday, the lower house
of parliament will meet to discuss whether to overrule President Klaus's
veto of one of the most controversial acts of legislation passed by the
Czech parliament since the fall of Communism. The bill on registered
partnership - approved by parliament but vetoed by the president - would
give gay couples many of the rights enjoyed by heterosexual married
couples, and the sexually liberal Czech Republic would become the first
post-Communist country in the EU to legalise gay marriage. More
Current AffairsBill on single sex partnerships makes it through both houses of Parliament
After seven years of intensive lobbying the Czech gay and lesbian community
has finally come close to reaching its goal: on Thursday the upper house of
Parliament, the Senate, passed a bill that would give legal recognition to
single sex partnerships. If the bill is signed by the president, the Czech
Republic would become the first post-communist state to legalize gay
marriages.
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Current AffairsCzech MPs approve law on same-sex partnerships
Only a week after 27-year old Vladko Dobrovodsky collected the first prize,
worth some 450,000 dollars, in the Czech Republic's first TV reality show,
he was given another present by the country's lawmakers - when they
approved a bill allowing for registered partnerships of same-sex couples.
Vladko never hid the fact he is gay and in a serious relationship. If the
bill becomes a law, Vladko and his boyfriend say they will enter into a
registered partnership.
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Current AffairsCzech gay porn biz seen as business opportunity for high number of heterosexual men
Trim, tanned, and well-proportioned where it counts: those are some of the
pre-requisites for making it in the gay porn business in the Czech
Republic, which enjoyed a massive boom in recent years. The 'biz' has come
under the spotlight recently in the country's edition of the Big Brother
reality show, in which Filip Trojovsky - known professionally as Tommy
Hansen - admitted to acting in gay porn films though he insisted he was
heterosexual. Strike you as unusual? Apparently in the Czech Republic it
is often the case that actors in gay porn are 'staight'. More
Current AffairsGay and Lesbian League in Prague uses light-hearted comics to portray life without registered partnerships
The lower house of the Czech Parliament is expected to vote on a bill on
same-sex registered partnerships this month. Last year, a similar bill was
defeated by just one vote. But this time, a homosexual rights group in
Prague has decided to take action within the Chamber of Deputies and has
come up with an unusual method to rally MPs' support.
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PanoramaBoston Gay Men's Chorus performs at Prague's Rudolfinum
The 150-member Boston Gay Men's Chorus (BGMC) is one of New England's
largest and most successful choirs. It has broken ground in affirming the
positive image of the gay community in the United States, and is now on a
tour of Europe. In Prague, the BGMC held a gala concert at one of the
city's great concert venues last week. Radio Prague's David Vaughan met up
with the chorus's executive director, Steven Smith, before the performance.
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Current AffairsGay pride in Prague's Rudolfinum
The 150-member Boston Gay Men's Chorus is one of New England's largest and
most successful choirs. It has broken ground in affirming the positive
image of the gay community in the United States, and is now on a tour of
Europe. After highly successful concerts in Berlin and then Wroclaw in
Poland, the chorus is now in Prague, where they will be singing in one of
city's great concert venues. In Catholic Poland their concert was
preceded by noisy anti-gay protests, so when he met up with the chorus's
executive director, Steven Smith, Radio Prague's David Vaughan asked how
they had been received so far in the Czech capital.
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Current AffairsDo Europeans have common values?
When we talk about "Europeans", who do we have in mind? Can all
Europeans be put into one basket when it comes to values and
characteristics? That's what the international research agencies Euro RSCG
and TNS wanted to find out when they conducted a telephone poll to
determine who the Europeans really are.
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