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AUSTRALIA
About 70 percent of employees in the Austra­
lian state of New South Wales (where Sydney is)
will have the right to take off work to care for a
sick domestic partner under a deal hammered out
April 17 between employers, unions and the state
government, reported the Sydney Morning Her­
ald.
The newspaper said the new definition of
“family” is “broader” than any previous defini­
tion in Australia.
The agreement was reached prior to the start of
hearings of the Industrial Relations Commission,
where the issue is up for debate.
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A gay man in the state of Tasmania plans to
open a sperm bank for lesbians, reported the
Reuters news service.
Lesbians are often denied access to regular
sperm banks.
Richard X, whose last name was withheld,
said he will collect semen in glass jars and insemi­
nate women with syringes.
A spokesman for the Tasmanian Gay and
Lesbian Rights Group, Rodney Croome, expressed
support for the project.
“It’s much safer than what exists now, where
lesbians have to have casual sex,” Croome said.
The Reuters dispatch did not say if Richard plans
to screen the semen for viruses.
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Political extremists forced the Australian Na­
tional Gaymes, held over Easter weekend in
Adelaide, to move the swimming events by dye­
ing the pool water purple with a toxic substance,
reported local sexual minority newspapers Brother
Sister and Adelaide GT.
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cording to The Washington Blade.
The Maria Ruca Beach Hotel will be able to
accommodate 100 people when it gets up to speed
in about six months, the report said.
BRITAIN
The Village Book Shop, a Manchester, En­
gland, gay bookstore, was torched and destroyed
in the early hours of April 3, reported London’s
Capital Gay.
Police believe an incendiary device was thrown
through a ground-floor window.
There are no known witnesses. Police have not
yet classified the arson as a hate crime.
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BBC-TV has commissioned its first show
targeted exclusively at gay men and lesbians,
reported London’s The Daily Telegraph.
The company said the “glossy magazine-style”
program, which debuts on BBC2 in June, will be
“camp, frothy and fun.”
The production and editorial teams will be
mostly gay, the network noted.
CANADA
Four hundred mostly gay and lesbian protest­
ers prevented radio evangelist Bob Larson of
Denver, Colo., from speaking at the University of
Winnipeg in Manitoba on April 21, reported the
Winnipeg Free Press
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and the Winnipeg Sun.
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The demonstrators
shouted, blew whistles
and stamped their feet
for two hours and then
rushed the stage when
Larson finally appeared.
Larson quickly fled, —
saying he feared for his /
life.
“Never in 25 years
have I been prevented
from speaking by a violent mob,” he told reporters
later. “They were threatening my life.”
Larson preaches that homosexuals are pos­
sessed by demons.
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The right-wing group National Action took
credit for the attack in calls to news agencies.
About a dozen National Action members also
later heckled and jeered lesbians and gay men
arriving at the relocated swimming events.
Hundreds of athletes participated in the
Gaymes, which also included volleyball, bowl­
ing, softball, netball and soccer.
BRAZIL
Latin America’s first gay resort opened on
Easter weekend, 42 miles off the coast of Rio de
Janeiro, said the daily newspaper O Globo, ac-
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Shareholders jeered a gay employee on April
19 at the annual meeting of Imperial Oil Ltd. in
Toronto, reported The Globe and Mail.
David Mitges, a chemical engineer at the com­
pany for 15 years, tried to make a presentation on
the extension of benefits to domestic partners, but
he was drowned out by boos.
The company recently announced that it will
not extend such benefits, even though its competi­
tors—Shell Canada, Dow Chemical Canada, and
Nova Corp.— have done so.
Mitges plans to take his case to the Ontario
Human Rights Commission.
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