Edge Boston 🔗 [Link: edgeboston.com/index.php/]by Katia Dolmadjian
Monday Jun 18, 2007
Tens of thousands Saturday staged the Gay Pride parade in Rome, urging the Italian government to fast-track plans to grant homosexual couples legal status and override Vatican objections.
The raucous and colourful crowd, which included ->-bleeped-<-s and lawmakers, marched under a baking sun from Rome's Saint Paul's Gate to the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, the official ecclesiastical seat of the Pope as Bishop of Rome, where anti-gay protestors had staged a giant rally last month.
