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Breaking step with much o f the nation, the
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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
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Newly openly gay Australian rugby star Ian
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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The state o f Bavaria has repealed the law that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.
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PeterTatchell, spokesman for the London street-
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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
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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
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