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BRITAIN
The British Broadcasting Corporation has
banned members o f the lesbian and gay group
OutRage from speaking live on radio or TV after
its membership voted to endorse outing o f clos
eted public figures whose actions or inactions
harm sexual minorities.
The decision was made by the BBC’s Edito
rial Policy Unit, spokeswoman Kathryn Kelly
told the London newspaper Capital Gay.
OutRage denounced the move as “outrageous
censorship which effectively silences a whole
section o f lesbian and gay opinion.”
ICELAND
A commission on lesbian and gay issues cre
ated by the Icelandic parliament, the Alltinget,
recommended this month that Iceland legalize
gay and lesbian marriage, criminalize discrimina
tion against gay men and lesbians, and substan
tially increase education about lesbians and gay
men in schools.
The government is discussing the report and
has forwarded it to all concerned departments for
consideration, said the Swedish newspaper Kom
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Sexual Risk-Taking Among Gay & Bisexual Men
featuring
Ron Stall, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Associate Adjunct Professor o f Epidemiology and Biostatistics
at the University of California, San Francisco
Sweden, Denmark and Norway let gay men
and lesbians marry, but married gay and lesbian
couples are not granted access to adoption, artifi
cial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or church
weddings. In all three nations, one partner must be
a citizen living is his or her home country.
NORW AY
A member o f Norway’s parliament came out
o f the closet last recently.
Labor Party MP Anders Homslien told a TV
talk show he was gay in order to keep the Oslo gay
newspaper Blikk from outing him, he said.
He denied further requests for interviews, say
ing he does not want to be known as “the gay MP,”
but he did mention to the daily newspaper
Dagbladet that he’s been with his lover for six
years.
Norway’s parliament, the Stortinget, has one
other open gay member, John-Ame Balto, ac
cording to Blikk.
O NTARIO
Ontario Attorney General Marion Boyd is
standing behind a Toronto lesbian who is suing
her former lover for spousal support, reported the
newspaper Capital Xtra!
Boyd’s lawyers told a court the Ontario Fam
ily Law Act is unconstitutional because it ignores
same-sex unions and said gay pairings should be
considered common-law relationships.
The complainant, known only as “H,” claims
the Family Law Act violates the national Charter
o f Rights and Freedoms by barring her from
obtaining financial support based on her sexual
ity.
SC O T L A N D
Famed Shakespearean actor and gay activist
Sir Ian M cKellen shocked Scottish religious lead
ers in early December when he ripped an anti-gay
passage out o f a Bible during his one-man stage
show in Edinburgh, reported Capital Gay.
McKellen tore out the section o f Leviticus that
calls gay sex an “abomination,” provoking a
spokesman for the Scottish Roman Catholic
Church to insist, ‘Tearing pages out o f the Bible
does not change the word o f God!”
“Maybe his conscience is a bit troubled, but
tearing pages out w on’t change the m essage o f the
Bible,” echoed a spokesman for the Church o f
Scotland.
McKellen has performed the show without
incident in England, N ew York and South Africa.
SPA IN
AIDS activists and members o f an anti-abor-
tioT group clashed on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1,
in Madrid, according to a Reuters report.
Pro-lifers confronted anti-AIDS marchers with
a banner reading “Promiscuity causes A ID S,”
and the AIDS activists responded by squirting the
anti-abortionists with red paint from syringes.
Two-thirds o f Spain’s 27,000 AIDS cases are
traced to drug use. An additional 125,000 people
are HIV positive, the government says.
TURKEY
Serkan Altan, the Turkish man who recently
became the second gay man to be granted asylum
in the United States due to persecution abroad, has
a famous mother, singer Nihal Arda, who is a
household name in Turkey, reported The Wash
ington Blade.
And she is not amused.
Following a Turkish media orgy on Aitan’s
case, Arda called a press conference where she
denounced him, denied that he is gay, and said he
lied about his sexuality to stay in the United
States.
“My brother told me the family cannot go
outside because the news media is waiting for
them,” Altan said. “[He said] all the family honor
is gone.”
Compiled by Rex Wockner
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