Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Gay graveyard opened in Copenhagen

A special graveyard has been opened for Danish homosexuals in Copenhagen where the organisation Rainbow has reserved 36 places for funeral urns, reports said.

The organisation has an option for a further 12 places in a section of the municipal Assistens cemetery in the Danish capital where famed Danish writers HC Andersen and Soren Kierkegaard are buried.

"We have our own places where we can meet and have fun, gay bars and such. That is why we wanted our own graveyard," Larsen, a priest, told public broadcaster DR.

The graveyard is marked with a big stone and the rainbow flag that often symbolises gay and lesbian community pride.

Denmark pioneered same-sex unions in 1989.

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