Hundreds of Thousands March for Gay Pride
From Times Wire Reports
About half a million people took to the streets in Paris in an annual gay pride parade, urging the conservative French government to safeguard homosexual rights as the country debates same-sex marriages.
This month, the government temporarily suspended Noel Mamere, a Green mayor who conducted France’s first same-sex marriage. Justice Minister Dominique Perben declared the wedding invalid.
In Germany, meanwhile, a crowd estimated to number at least 300,000 marched in Berlin’s gay pride parade.
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