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Germany considering income tax equality for gay couples

logointern1 — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:00:54 +0000

(Berlin) Germany’s justice minister says she is considering changes to income tax laws to iron out disadvantages for gay couples.

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told Thursday’s edition of(...)

German court rules for gay inheritance tax equity

logointern1 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:30:25 +0000

Germany has had civil unions since 2001, but gay couples had higher inheritance taxes than their straight counterparts. Reuters reported that gay widows and widowers could be taxed up to 20(...)

Holocaust scholars irate over plans to switch gay kiss film to lesbian one

logointern1 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:00:59 +0000

Holocaust scholars are irate over an attempt to include a video of lesbians kissing in a monument dedicated to the gay victims of the Nazi regime.

The Berlin, Germany, memorial, erected in 2008,(...)

German leader to open Gay Games VIII

logointern1 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:00:42 +0000

Germany’s foreign minister and vice chancellor, Guido Westerwelle, will preside over the opening ceremony of the 2010 Gay Games, according to a news release from the sports(...)

Germany’s likely next foreign minister openly gay

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:06:58 +0000

(Berlin) Guido Westerwelle and his gay partner are Germany’s new “power couple” – at least according to the nation’s leading daily, which splashed a photo of the pair hugging on election night(...)

German zoo: Gay penguin pair raising chick

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:00:11 +0000

(Berlin) A German zoo says a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents.

Bremerhaven zoo veterinarian Joachim Schoene says the egg was placed in the male(...)

Ban lifted on gay cannibal film

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:00:58 +0000

(Berlin) A German federal court has overturned a ban on a movie inspired by the case of a confessed cannibal, ruling that the artistic freedom of the filmmakers trumped the cannibal’s personal(...)

Berlin memorial to gay holocaust victims vandalized again

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:37:05 +0000

(Berlin) Berlin’s memorial to gay victims of the Nazis has been vandalized for the second time in four months.

Berlin police say a window on the outside of the memorial has been broken, probably(...)

Germany: Marrow transplant may have cured man’s AIDS

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:59:00 +0000

(Berlin) An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his(...)

Gay German cannibal denied new trial

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:19:38 +0000

(Berlin) The man known as the ‘Cannibal of Kassel’ has been denied a retrial by Germany’s highest court.

The ruling Friday by the Federal Constitutional Court is the end of the appeal process(...)