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4 ▼ july 5. 1996 ▼ just out world briefs AUSTRALIA On Aug. 7, 1994, 43 police officers strip- searched 463 customers of the Melbourne gay nightclub Tasty. Many of the pa trons sued, and,in the first case to reach trial, lesbian Sally Gordon has received $10,000 in compensation. County Court Judge L eonard Ostrowski said the strip-search was “unreasonable” and amounted to “assault.” “The experience of being totally helpless and unable to communicate with anyone who might help, the experience of fear because one is cowed into submission by others, the stripping off of one’s clothes in front of others in a state of virtual nudity, all this is a most unpleasant experience,” Ostrowski said. PASSWORD Due to the new legislation that was passed in February, new accounts for PASSWORD are no longer being offered. Existing accounts will be serviced to the end of their contract. CANADA Voters in Vancouver’s gay West End elected openly gay United Church minister Tim Stevenson to the provincial parliament on May 28. All three of his opponents were gay as well. A left-wing New Democrat, Stevenson is the second open homosexual to serve in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly. He was the first out gay man ordained by a mainstream Canadian Christian church. Thank you for your support. < jb tid e 1996 ! ¿ o t ¿ ja y S e r v in g ( Z e l e b t a t l n $ m if & jZ e s b ia n O u t 25 th if e a t i n jZ ik e ta tio n ! . . . & ( Z o m m u n it y 's th e s t t u $ $ le m i\ 7 th if e a t T ^ e a t e s ta te n e e d s ! Aiillynn V House ”§ cM 99 Word ▼Buying or selling real estate? Let me give you a hand... 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Three hundred members of ACT UP-New York, Reaction SIDA (Montréal) and AIDS Ac tion Now (Toronto) commandeered the stage for an hour, demolishing the opening ceremonies. Three hours later, then-Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was heckled relentlessly throughout his 20-minute address. ▼ ▼ ▼ The popular gay dance bar Le Club, located across the river from Ottawa, Ontario, in Hull, Québec, exploded and burned to the ground May 24. No one was hurt in the 4:30 am blast. Police have not ruled out terrorism. The explosion was heard for blocks, and the resulting fire shot flames eight storeys high, wit nesses said. 2 1 0 0 N E B ro a d w a y , S u ite 1-B P o rtla n d , O R 9 7 2 3 2 5 0 3 -2 8 7 -8 9 8 9 , x122(Offlce/24 hr voicemail) c e llu la r 3 1 8 -1 4 5 5 ▼ fax 5 0 3 -2 8 4 -1 6 1 8 O U T of the area? 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Parliament voted 207-73 in favor of the change, heeding a March 1995 Constitutional Court rul ing that mandated legalization of same-gender common-law marriage within one year. The court ruling had been completely unex pected and was not the result of any campaigning by gay or lesbian groups. The 1995 court ruling declared, “It is arbitrary and contrary to human dignity...that the law withholds recognition from couples living in an economic and emotional union simply because they are same-sex.” At the same time, the court ruled that formal marriage is for heterosexual couples only. NEW ZEALAND The three New Zealand lesbian couples who sued for the right to marry lost their case on May 28, report correspondents Mark Proffit and Brett Sheppard. At least one of the couples will appeal. Auckland High Court Justice Kerr ruled that legalization of same-gender marriage should be pursued via Parliament, not through the courts, in part because public support for the idea is hard to gauge. New Zealand has a national law banning dis crimination based on sexual orientation, and the 1955 marriage act does not say spouses must be of opposite sexes. The only marriages specifically prohibited are those that would “damage the gene pool.” ROMANIA A new Internet World Wide Web site makes it easy to send protest letters to members of the Romanian parliament. And letters are needed, gay activists say. Legislation that has passed the Senate and is pending in the Chamber of Deputies retains the nation’s ban on gay sex if the sex scandalizes anyone, and adds bans on “enticing or seducing a person to practice same-sex acts, as well as propa ganda, associations or other forms of proselytiz ing with the same aim.” “We need your help!” writes the Bucharest gay group Accept. “Not only gay love but gay organizations, politics, clubs, bars, meetings— gay life itself—will remain persecuted.” To help lobby, point a Web browser at http:// www.raglb.org.uk/home.html. Activists say it will be helpful if letter writers remind MPs that Romania was admitted to the Council of Europe in 1993 on the condition that it move quickly to legalize same-sex relations. SLOVENIA The International Lesbian and Gay Association’s 1 Oth Regional Conference for East ern, Southeastern and Central Europe will be held Aug. 8-11 in Ljubljana. Areas of focus will include the media, visibil ity, internalized homophobia, lesbian and gay youth, anti-gay violence, sex, discrimination, HIV/ AIDS, lobbying, same-gender marriage and work ing with nongay organizations. Registration forms are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.kud-fp.si/~zoran/QRD/ ILGAconf/, viae-mail fromales.pecnik@kiss.uni- Ij.si, or by faxing 011-386-613-29185 or writing Roza Klub, Kersnikova 4, SI-1000, Slovenia. Compiled by Rex Wockner
