Stockholm, November 16. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SUPPORTS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE/PARTNERSHIP This morning Sweden went one step further towards a law, which will enable same-sex couples to marry or register their partnership. A parliamentary committee has investigated the question of gays and lesbians equal rights to marriage/partnership for several years. The Swedish GLG movement (RFSL) has not been impressed by the committee's pace of progress, and has therefore named it the partnership detain committee. But today the committee handed over its report, in which it advocates a new law, giving same-sex couples the right to marry. Such a law has to be discussed in Parliament first, and is likely to be a reality during 1994. The law will give queer couples the same legal rights as straight marriages, apart from the right to adoption and artificial insemination. When the law passes, Sweden will be the third Scandinavian country to give gays and lesbians the legal right to marry. Denmark got such a law in 1989 and Norway in April this year. Bjorn Skolander University of Uppsala Sweden bjorn.skolander@nordiska.uu.se