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CANADA
Gay men and lesbians can sue ex-lovers for
financial support the same as married people,
Ontario’s highest court said Dec. 18. In a 2-1
ruling, the Court of Appeal said family law must be
applied equally to same- and opposite-sex couples.
The justices based their decision on the federal
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The province’s Court of Appeal ruled in De­
cember that Gwen Jacob was not guilty of an
indecent act for taking off her blouse on a hot day
since she did not go topless for sexual reasons.
Legal observers say other women who want to
bare their breasts for nonsexual purposes now
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GERMANY
A Romanian man made German history in
November when Munster’s High Administrative
Court ruled he can stay in the country with his
German male lover, reported Rosa Zene.
The court also set down requirements for future
such cases, including: the foreigner must have
sufficient space in his lover’s abode, he must be
supported financially by the German for “a consid­
erable period of time,” and he must have adequate
health insurance when he first enters Germany.
ISRAEL
Israeli President Ezer Weizman denounced
and made fun of gay men during an address to
high-school students in Haifa on Dec. 20.
“[Homosexuality] is abnormal from a social
point of view,” Weizman said. “I personally do not
accept this business of everyone coming out of the
closet,” he continued. “It seems to me to be weird....
1 hope you are not in favor of sodomy.... I am
aware that homos suffer in society. I’m not pleased
about that. But there is too much fuss about this.”
Following a 90-minute meeting Dec. 23 be­
tween the president and 10 sexual minority lead­
ers, Weizman’s spokesman said: “He asked to
apologize for any public statement that might
have offended anyone.
“The president sees legislation which dis­
criminates as undermining the foundations of
democracy...and he has no intention of encour­
aging legislation which leads to discrimination
between citizens of the state regardless of origin,
religion, sex or sexual orientation. The president
says that any deed or expression in which people
are publicly humiliated—or deeds which can be
interpreted as such—should be regretted.”
sex. Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng re­
ported in December.
Chua termed the statistics alarming and called
for creation of an “interesting AIDS awareness
program which could attract the young” and for
renewed “education on moral and family values.”
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand’s national health care system still
isn’t paying for protease inhibitors, and Warren
Lindberg, executive director of the New Zealand
AIDS Foundation, charges that the government’s
Pharmac agency is simply being cheap.
“When Pharmac says that it doesn’t have
long-term data, does that mean it wants to wait 10
years before making a decision?” he asked. “Some
patients have been on protease-inhibitor trials for
three years and are still going strong.... There is
only one reasonable conclusion to draw: Pharmac
is sacrificing lives to save money.”
PHILIPPINES
Seventy-five women staged the Philippine’s
first National Lesbian Rights Conference Dec. 8-
11 in Silang, Cavite, reported NewsPlanet.
Under the banner "Hearing Our Voices in Unity:
Claiming Our Rights, Controlling Our Lives,”
representatives of more than two dozen lesbian
groups tackled issues such as coming out, creating
families, spirituality and activist strategies.
The confab was organized by Group-Davao,
LesBond-Baguio and Manila’s Womyn Support­
ing Womyn Committee.
SPAIN
The Socialist Party has introduced partnership
legislation that grants pension, inheritance and
other spousal rights to same-sex couples.
Adoption rights were withheld from the pro­
posal. The governing Popular Party—which has a
conservative, Christian bent—said in December
it supports the measure. Some sexual minority
activist groups have refused to endorse the bill
because of the adoption exclusion.
SWITZERLAND
The Swiss government’s proposed new con­
stitution does not ban discrimination based on
sexual orientation.
The document, which incorporates results of a
public-opinion poll, overlooks sexual minorities,
even though two dozen organizations and 400
citizens told pollsters the anti-bias clause should
protect homosexuals.
The groups Pink Cross and Lesbian Organiza­
tion of Switzerland said they are “indignant” and
plan to fight the exclusion.
The constitution will be debated in parliament
this year and adopted in 1998.
TURKEY
Gay men and transgendered people in
Istanbul’s gay Beyoglu district are being terror­
ized by police, religious fanatics and political
extremists, reports Lambda Istanbul.
The attacks have included broken windows,
arson, physical and verbal harassment, beatings,
arrests and evictions.
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KUWAIT
Kuwaiti police Dec. 19 arrested seven gay
Filipino hairdressers and jailed them prior to
deportation.
“The presence of gays and thei r actions cannot
be tolerated,” a police official said, according to
the Philippine Embassy.
The official also charged that the hairdressers
had used their salons as a front for “massage
services,” the embassy said.
Kuwait and its legislature are increasingly
under the influence of Muslim fundamentalists,
according to mainstream news reports.
MALAYSIA
A new study of Malaysian youths between
ages 15 and 21 found that 20 percent have had gay
"These systematic violations and provoca­
tions have been supported and encouraged by the
chief of police for the Beyoglu area.. .often with
his own personal participation,” the group said.
“A recent development involves a campaign
to ‘hang a Turkish flag outside your door if you
are not a homosexual.’ ”
Compiled by Rex Wockner