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AUSTRALIA
he Australian military has the right to
kick out any member who tests positive
for HIV, chronic hepatitis B or chronic hepati
tis C, a federal court in Brisbane ruled Jan. 13.
The court ordered the Equal Opportunity
Commission to reconsider its finding that the
policy was discriminatory, saying the risk of
bloodshed during military service is too great
to tolerate soldiers with permanent blood
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CANADA
Montreal gay man has filed suit charging
that Quebec’s refusal to let him marry his
Mexican lover violates that province’s Charter
of Rights and Freedoms.
“For me and Manuel, marriage is impor
tant,” says Martin Dube, a 26-year-old security
guard. “We want the same rights as heterosex
ual couples.”
Dube’s lawyer says the Charter of Rights
and Freedoms, which bans discrimination
based on sexual orientation, is in direct con
flict with the Civil Code, which limits mar
riage to opposite-sex couples.
CAYMAN ISLANDS
ircuit Noize magazine and the gay-travel
newsletter “Out & About” have called for
a boycott of the Cayman Islands.
They’re angry that Cayman Minister of
Tourism, Commerce and Transport Thomas
Jefferson denied port access to a Norwegian
Cruise Lines/Atlantis Events gay cruise that
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MEXICO
ay and lesbian groups joined with
60,000 demonstrators in Mexico City
on Jan. 12 to protest the Dec. 22 massacre of
45 Tzotzil Indian refugees in Acteal, Chiapas,
by pro-government paramilitary forces.
The protesters flooded Reforma Avenue,
Mexico City’s main street, shouting that
President Ernesto Zedillo has blood on his
hands.
The Chiapas slayings were in retaliation
for the Indians’ support of the Zapatista
rebels, according to news reports.
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NETHERLANDS
ame-sex marriage got underway in earnest
Jan. 14 in the Netherlands, two weeks
after the new “Registration of Partnership”
law took effect.
Three male couples were allowed to marry
earlier because of grave medical conditions,
but everyone else was subject to Holland’s
two-week matrimonial waiting period.
The new law grants same-sex couples all
the rights of marriage except access to adop
tion, a restriction that Parliament plans to
remove later this year.
Childhood sweethearts Irma van Praag
and Anna Kreuger, both 38, went first with a
glittering ceremony at the Amsterdam Hilton
at the stroke of midnight. They then spent
their honeymoon in the suite where John
Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrated their wed
ding with a week of “bed peace.”
More than 100 gay weddings are planned
this year, according to the newspaper De Gay
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HUNGARY
ungary’s Self-Regulatory Advertising
Board recently banned a billboard con
dom campaign charging that targeted only
gay men.
The gay group Lambda Budapest, which
produced the ads with a $5,000 government
grant, contested the finding, pointing out the
posters depict a condom-wrapped middle fin
ger pointing at the word AIDS.
“These ads don’t say something homosex
ual, what they say affects everyone,” says
Lambda’s Laszlo Laner.
Lambda plans to sue the outdoor-advertis
ing company that refused to put up the ads
and then brought them to the attention of
the regulatory board. In addition, Lambda
says its right to freedom of speech has been
abridged.
In a letter to Norwegian Cruise Lines,
Jefferson explained, “Careful research and
prior experience has led us to conclude that we
cannot count on this group to uphold the stan
dards of appropriate behavior expected of visi
tors to the Cayman Islands, so we regrettably
cannot offer our hospitality.”
Atlantis President Rich Campbell told
reporters, “I find it astonishing that in 1998
you could elicit such a strong response to 900
well-heeled men who want to stop for seven
hours of diving and shopping.”
The Cayman Islands consists of three
islands 500 miles south of Miami, halfway
between Cuba and Honduras. Tourism
accounts for 70 percent of its gross domestic
product and 75 percent of foreign-currency
earnings.
FRANCE
rench Member of Parliament Andre
Labarrere came out as gay during a Dec. 17
interview on Radio-Television Luxembourg,
reports correspondent Olivier Razemon of the
gay publication Ex AEquo.
Labarrere has written a book entitled Le
Baron Rouge about a fictional gay politician.
When asked by interviewer Thierry
Demaiziere if he was gay himself, he respond
ed, “Yes, I am.”
Labarrere, a Socialist who is also mayor of
the southwestern city of Pau, told radio listen
ers “there are plenty of other gay men” in
French politics.
ROMANIA
wo U.S. gay activists visited Romania in
mid-January to encourage authorities to
legalize gay sex.
At a press conference, Jeri Laber of the
International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission and Scott Long of
Human Rights Watch presented a report
entitled “Public Scandals: Sexual Orientation
and Criminal Law in Romania.”
“This report documents case after case of
detentions, beatings and harassment directed
at gay men and lesbians,” Long said.
Romania bans gay sex that “provokes a
public scandal” including sex in private that
somehow upsets a third party.
It is an offense punishable by one to five
years’ imprisonment “to entice or seduce a
person to practice same-sex acts, as well as to
form propaganda associations, or to engage in
other forms of proselytizing with the same
aim."
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