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AUSTRALIA
he nations highest court ruled Dec. 3 that
the military can kick out people who test
positive for HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C.
The court said people with those infections
pose a threat to other soldiers, particularly dur
ing combat.
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viewers
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with her popular
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the face. One of them managed to tear a gold
chain from my neck, which upset me because it
was a present from someone I am very fond of.”
Mauresmo was walking on the beach with
girlfriend Sylvie Bourdon when the attack
occurred. Club Med security officers failed to
apprehend the thugs.
CANADA
INTERNATIONAL
he King and Alexander Steam Baths in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire
Dec. 8.
The 3:30 a.m. blaze also destroyed other
businesses in the historic building—a restau
rant, barber shop, fireworks store and tailor
shop.
Five near-nude patrons
were rescued from the
rooftop by police.
Police said the fire
was set by bathhouse
customer Devon Sean
Carriere, who was
charged with arson
and disregarding human
life.
“Our information was,
he was a client at the time of the
fire,” homicide detective Tom Anderson told
the Winnipeg Sun. “The motive isn’t something
we’d talk about.”
en members of Latvia’s Homosexuality
Information Centre picketed the Inter-
Govemmental Conference of the European
Union in Helsinki, Finland, Dec. 10, in protest
against Latvia’s proposed entry into the EU.
In a letter distributed to attendees, members
of the activist group said Latvia does not ban
discrimination based on sexual orientation, does
not recognize same-sex relationships, explicitly
bans same-sex marriage, and subjects gay
men and lesbians to “a state-supported cam
paign of hatred, intolerance and social
exclusion, aimed at presenting them as
‘parasites’ and ‘cripples’ of society.”
A 1998 resolution by the European Par
liament declared that countries seeking EU
membership should not discriminate against
gay men and lesbians.
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he Toronto District School Board is help
ing sponsor a poster campaign that tells
students it’s OK to be gay.
The posters will appear in subway stations
and at all schools with students in seventh grade
or above.
Board Chairwoman Gail Nyberg told the
Toronto Sun: “We have an obligation to address
the needs of all our students.”
Meanwhile, the board’s Dec. 8 meeting was
disrupted by anti-gay Muslims protesting the
district’s proposed anti-homophobia policy.
"What [gays] do is not normal,” said protest
er Idrahin El-Sayed, president of the Toronto
District Muslim Education Assembly. “We don’t
want it pushed on our kids and we won’t stand
for it to be in our schools.”
The protesters eventually calmed down and
left.
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CHINA
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C hina’s first televised condom ad aired on
✓ 'Central Television’s Channel 1, Xinhua
reported Nov. 29.
On Dec. 2, the ad was banned for violating a
law that prohibits advertisements for sexual
products.
FRANCE
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n early December, French lesbian tennis pro
Amelie Mauresmo decked three muggers at a
resort in the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe,
an overseas possession of France.
“I was terrified but I didn’t let it show,” Mau
resmo told London’s The Mirror. “I screamed at
them to go away but they surrounded us and
moved in. One pulled out a knife, so I used my
elbows to knock two of them to the ground,
then punched the third one as hard as I could in
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IRELAND
he nation’s new Employment Equality Act
bans direct and indirect job discrimination
based on sexual orientation, the International
Lesbian and Gay Association reported Dec. 2.
The law also prohibits unwelcome, offensive,
humiliating or intimidating actions.
Religious institutions are exempt from the
act in instances when it conflicts with their
teachings.
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ISRAEL
ealth Minister Shlomo Benizri said Dec. 1
that gays are sick deviants.
“These people have a mental problem, they
are deviant. Instead of giving them legitimacy,
we need to treat them,” he told Reuters news
service. “It is a sickness.
They say they are like
normal people. Psychol
ogists have
to encour
age them
and help them.”
Speaking to the
Ma’ariv newspaper,
Benizri added: “I am
ready to fund the ere
ation of special
closed sections for
them in psychiatric
hospitals. They are
suffering from a genetic
defect, and the health
ministry can come to
their help.”
Gay leader Michal Eden responded: “If he
holds such views, he should immediately
resign.”
In general, Israel is fairly gay-friendly, at least
in the legal arena. Sex between people of the
same gender was decriminalized in 1988, job
bias was banned in 1992 and the military ban on
open gays was dropped in 1993.
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