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ARGENTINA
A Buenos Aires gay group has filed a criminal
complaint accusing Cardinal Antonio Quarracino,
leader of Argentina’s Catholic Church, of inciting
violence against gay men and lesbians, according
to a Sept. 23 report in The Washington Post.
In mid-August, Quarracino said on television
that gay men and lesbians should be sent to a “type
of separate country” in order to “clean an ignoble
stain from the face of society.” He urged creation
of “a large area for gays and lesbians to live in, with
their own laws, their own media...even their own
constitution.”
Quarracino later apologized, following wide­
spread public criticism, saying his remarks had
been “ajoke, something that just crossed my mind.
I apologize if I offended anyone, if I hurt someone’s
sensitivities,” he said. “I thought people had a
better sense of humor.”
Gays for Civil Rights director Carlos Jaurengui
said his organization decided to file the complaint
after receiving more than 5,000 telephone calls
critical of Quarracino.
AUSTRALIA
The government of the state of New South
Wales, where Sydney is located, has amended its
Anti-Discrimination Act to protect gay men, lesbi­
ans and people who are HIV positive.
Individuals can now lodge complaints if they
receive biased treatment in the areas of employ­
ment or provision of goods and services.
“Now that we have these amendments is place,
it’s important to encourage people to use them
when necessary,” AIDS Council of New South
Wales President Peter Grogan told the Melbourne
Star Observer.
BRAZIL
Gay activist Claudio Orlando dos Santos was
reportedly beaten by military police this summer,
according to the International Gay and Lesbian
Human Rights Commission. Dos Santos is presi­
dent of the Association for the Defense of Homo­
sexual Rights in Florianopolis, in the state of Santa
Catarina.
According to dos Santos, he was distributing
condoms donated by state health officials when a
police car pulled up, causing the transvestites he
was working with to run away. Dos Santos re­
mained and was verbally harassed and threatened
with imprisonment as a result. He quickly phoned
the headquarters of the military police and reported
the incident. The cops then returned and kicked
and beat him. He was handcuffed and taken to a
police station where he was beaten again, and his
personal belongings were destroyed.
CANADA
Canadian Olympic silver medalist in boxing
Marc Leduc came out on National Coming Out
Day, according to the Toronto Star.
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homophobia,” Leduc told reporters. “One-third of
all teen suicides are because of sexual orientation,”
he said. “That reason alone should be enough. The
dreams of our young people are being taken away
because of the fear and stigma. And it’s about time
we do something about it.”
Leduc won his medal in Barcelona in 1992.
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Canada’s second openly gay member of Parlia­
ment, Réal Ménard, publicly announced his sexu­
ality Sept. 27 while responding to remarks made by
a homophobic MP. Ménard spoke recently to the
Toronto gay newspaper Xtra! about his decision
and the aftermath.
“If I had stayed silent it would have been, in my
point of view, a sign of cowardice,” Ménard said.
“You have to speak out at the time, you can’t speak
out afterwards.
“I felt the need to defend a community that I am
a part of. I cannot remain silent when the MP says
someone who is homosexual engages in practices
of bestiality, or is a pedophile. I could not accept
that because the gay community is my community.
“One is always a bit afraid that people wouldn’ t
understand, that they would react [negatively], but
it turned out really well. It wasn’t easy to say. You
mustn’t think, even if it turned out well, it was easy.
You reveal a dimension of your personality; it’s
something very personal.”
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In the midst of a British Colombia Supreme
Court case between Canadian customs and
Vancouver’s Little Sister’s Book and Art Empo­
rium, customs announced Sept. 29 that books
containing depictions of anal sex will no longer
automatically be snagged at the border.
Little Sister’s was not appeased.
“We can’t lose sight of what the real issues
are,” said shop manager Janine Fuller. “Gay and
lesbian bookstores across Canada have a long
history of struggle with
Canada Customs, and that
is not simply going to dis­
appear by removing anal
penetration from a policy
guideline.”
In its suit, Little
Sister’s charges the store
has been singled out for
confiscation of material
ordered from the United
States. Attorneys plan to
seizes titles bound for Little Sister’s, while letting
the same titles be delivered to mainstream shops.
Customs has grabbed hundreds of books and
magazines ordered by Little Sister’s and has some­
times destroyed them as “pornography”—includ­
ing such material as a biography of Noel Coward
and a collection of letters between the poets Byron
and Shelley.