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4 ▼ January 5, 1996 ▼ juat out Gswentry Cycle ( I INEVITABLY, YOUR BODY DECAYS, world briefs Works LO SIN G IT S H E A L T H F U L AUSTRALIA PHYSIQUE. UPHILL TECHNOLOGY. DOWN HILL PRICING. Come in and test ride the new 1995 Trek. $259. models from Mountain Bikes and G ty Bikes starting at OPEN TUESDAY-SUNDAY 2 3 0 -7 7 2 3 • 2 0 2 5 SE H aw thorne en die w eather outside is blowing, Tu ese sands are warm ly glowing... FORTUNATELY, THAT CAN WAIT ★ Hawaii ★ Mexico ★ South Beach if ★ RSVP Cruises UNTIL AFTER YOU’RE DEAD. P o r t l a n d ’s Lo we st Prices G ua r an t ee d . M e m b e r s h ip $25.00 per m onth. P er s o n a l t r a i n e r s $1 0. 00 p e r m o n t h . Unl i mi ted t an n in g $10.00 per month. O p e n 24 h o u r s m 7 d a y s a w e e k . 5223 NK Sandy (503)281-4776. Breaking step with much o f the nation, the attorney general of the state o f West Australia, Cheryl Edwardes, has nixed the idea of barring discrimination based on sexual orientation. Her decision came despite the fact that only 8.1 percent o f 394 public submissions opposed the Equal Opportunity Commi ssion ’ s recommendation to include “sexual preference” in the state Equal Opportunity Act, said the Australian Associated Press. Opposition justice spokesman Clive Brown of the Australian Labor Party accused Edwardes of “gross ineptitude” and said he will try to force the amendment with the parliamentary maneuver of a private-members bill. Meanwhile, in New South Wales, the state Cabi net has refused to support legislation banning dis crimination and vilification based on “sexual pref erence,” choosing instead to ban only discrimina tion and vilification based on homosexuality. The Cabinet said it did not want to create a mechanism under which heterosexuals could file discrimination complaints against gay businesses or organizations, according to the Sydney newspaper Capital Q. Attorney General Jeff Shaw successfully argued that heterosexuals do not face the sort o f discrimina tion that homosexuals face and that anti-discrimina tion laws should assist disadvantaged groups, the newspaper reported. Y Y Y ULTIMATE TRAVELS 220-8666, 800-446-4117 621SW Morrison Suite 435 Portland OR 97206 M U S C L E GOOD ’ Newly openly gay Australian rugby star Ian Roberts has lent his image to a series of safer-sex postcards, reported Capital Q. Central Island Gay and Lesbian Society, the news paper said. CUBA Ten percent of Cuba’s 1,180 HIV-positive in habitants have been released from HIV-quarantine and returned to normal life after convincing authori ties that they will behave responsibly, the Prensa Latina news agency reported on Nov. 14. A smaller, undisclosed number could have left but opted to stay, said Manuel Hernandez, head of the national anti-HIV campaign. O f 1,180 people who are HIV positive, 271 have died and 413 have developed AIDS, Hernandez said. CYBERSPACE The 11th International Conference on AIDS, which will be held in Vancouver, B.C., next sum mer, has established an Internet World Wide Web site at http ://uni xg. ubc .ca:880/stloui s/AIDS96. html. The confab’s other contact information is XI International Conference on AIDS, PO Box 48740, 595 Burrard St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V7X 1T8. F ro m the U n ited S tates o r C an ad a call 1-800-780-AIDS; fax: (604)668-3242; e-mail: aids96@ hivnet.ubc.ca. GERMANY The state o f Bavaria has repealed the law that required applicants for government jobs to take an HIV test. Taxpayers have spent 1.8 million marks— about $1.2 million— to test some 80,000 job seek ers. Four applicants turned up HIV positive. The test will remain mandatory if a government doctor suspects an applicant could be HIV positive. 4xex+ +xe>x+ +x<»x+ +xax+' IRAN ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ OUR BIGGEST SALE EVER! ★ Come get great savings on antiques, collectibles, and extraordinary junk as our 250 dealers clean house for the New Year. ★ ★ ★ A N T I Q U E ★ M A L L S 7027 S.E. M ilwaukie, Portland ( 503 ) ★ 239-0346 *Not all dealers may be participating in this sale. ★ ★ ★ CANADA Y Y Y T H R E E ★ Gay activists plan to proclaim an independent republic on a small island off the coast of Devon, England, to protest British Immigration’s restrictive refugee laws, according to Capital Q. PeterTatchell, spokesman for the London street- activist group OutRage!, said gays will occupy the island of Lundy, population 12, for one week and erect the gay flag, print gay money and issue gay marriage licenses. OutRage! spent $13,000 to rent every available building on the island for the week. C om er of NW 21st & Everett, Portland ★ ST^RS ★ The material is part of a new Gay Men Fighting AIDS campaign funded by the Central Sydney Area Health Service. and ★ Saturday, January 13, 1 1:00 am - 6 :0 0 pm S u n d ay, January 14, N o o n - 5 :0 0 pm M o n d a y , January 1 5 , 1 1 :00 am - 6 :0 0 pm ★ * Veteran Toronto gay journalist Gerald Hannon, 51, has been suspended from his part-time position as a journalism teacher at Ryerson Polytechnic University after the Toronto Sun publicized the fact that he favors legalization o f sex between adults and adolescents, and after he later told the Sun he moon lights as a prostitute to supplement his income. The university banned Hannon from campus while it investigates his “recent media statements.” Hannon’s views on “intergenerational sex” have been known to readers o f the Canadian gay and lesbian press for more than 20 years but were not publicized in the mainstream media until a Sun columnist seized on the topic. O p en to the g en era l p u b lic: ★ * BRITAIN At All Three Malls ★ ★ ★ HAGGLE WITH THE DEALERS!* ★ ★ ★ ^ II n : * * ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Vancouver Island’s first gay community center has opened in Nanaimo, B.C., reported Xtra West! The David Henderson Centre, a converted heri tage house at 357 Wesley St. peat downtown, came into existence following 13 years o f work by the The government, which punishes homosexual ity with the death penalty, stoned to death dervish sect mystic Mehdi Barazandeh on Nov. 14 for allegedly having had gay sex and committing adul tery, reported the newspaper Jomhuri Eslami. The execution took place in Hamadan, 180 miles west of Tehran. IRELAND Ireland has joined the list o f countries where lesbians and gay men persecuted in their native land due to their sexuality can apply for political asylum, reported Dublin’s Gay and Lesbian Equality Net work.