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Hamburg Sets Up Partnership Registry Photo Exhibit Nixed at Euro Parliament |
| By Rex Wockner
International News Report Canadian Youth at High Risk for Suicide
A University of British Columbia survey of 345 gay men age 18 to
30 has found they are 10 times more likely to have considered
suicide than their heterosexual peers, and are more likely to
have dropped out of school and to have been raped.
The research was conducted by Michael Botnick and presented at Canada's annual HIV/AIDS research conference. "They live in a confused and hostile environment," Botnick told the Globe & Mail. "They grow up thinking they are deviant and may go to hell." Forty-three percent of the men surveyed had considered killing themselves and 20 percent had actually tried to do so. Only 3.2 percent of straight North American male youth attempt suicide. Among those who had tried to kill themselves, more than half had sex forced on them before age 18 and only about half had finished high school. Hamburg Sets Up Partnership Registry
A recent Forsa Institute survey found that Germans are divided on gay marriage. Of 1,004 persons questioned, 46 percent oppose gay marriage and 45 percent approve of it. Fifty-five percent of women favor gay marriage compared with only 35 percent of men. Photo Exhibit Nixed at Euro Parliament
European Parliament officials May 4 cancelled an exhibit of
Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson's controversial show Ecce
Homo, which, among other images, depicts Jesus and the apostles
in drag and shows a nude, well-endowed Jesus being baptized.
The parliament is in Strasbourg, France. Euro MP Pertti Paasio of Finland arranged the showing but then agonized about his decision and finally determined the photos would shock or insult some MPs, Swedish media reported. |
