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january 7.2 0 0 0 < VII 21 n ew s RE/MAX First Congregational U nited Church of C hrist F NEW ZEALAND uckland’s annual gay Hero Parade has been canceled for 2000 due to money troubles. Organizers said the celebration will return as a festival in February 2001. A SOUTH AFRICA he nation’s Constitutional Court extended the spousal immigration provisions of the Aliens Control A ct to same-sex couples Dec. 2. Gay men and lesbians are now permitted to bring a foreign lover to live with them. The ruling upheld a decision by the regional Cape High Court that had been appealed by the Department of Home Affairs. T UNITED KINGDOM rosecutors dropped charges Dec. 10 against gay activist Peter Tatchell for his attempted citizen’s arrest of anti-gay Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in London on Oct. 30. T a t c h e 11 could have been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using threaten ing, abusive and insulting words and behavior, and for assaulting a police officer during the attack on Mugabe’s motorcade. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to proceed with the case. Lesser charges against the other protesters were dropped as well. P B SRI LANKA n estimated 40 women formed Sri Lanka’s first lesbian organization Dec. 5 in the cap ital, Colombo. The fledgling group is called Companions. A onservative former British Defense Secre- ^ tary Michael Portillo, who recently acknowledged having had gay sex during his college days, was elected to Parliament in a spe cial election to fill the London seat of the late Alan Clark. Portillo won 56 percent of the vote in the upscale Kensington-Chelsea district, with the remainder split among 17 other candidates. Portillo, 46, was heckled repeatedly during the campaign by gay activist Peter Tatchell, who was upset that, as defense minister, Portillo had supported Britain’s ban on gays in the military. The ban was struck down Sept. 27 by the European Court of Human Rights. Tatchell and others also claim Portillo has not been fully honest about his gay experi ences— that, in fact, Portillo had at least one long-term gay relationship after he left universi i Longtime Companions: Autobiographies of Gav Male Fidelity J U S T L IS T E D ! G orgeous S E 3 B R w/so features! New maple kitchen fridge & Ireezer, all oak h/w d ^JM ^^A ^ glass bit in D R , bath. E x tra l a r g ^ ^ ^ K ^ ^ w / a r b o r , pick et l e n ^ ^ * a ^ L ^ ^ ^ B | ^ ^ 2 - c a r heated garage, shed, cute octagon d o g h o u s e ^ B ^ ^ n i n s i d e & out on this one! Discussion and Book Signing with Alfred I^es &. 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In the first half of 1999, 47 percent of those newly diagnosed as HIV-positive were straight and 48 percent were gay, the Public Health Lab oratory Service reported Dec. 1. The Constitutional Court said: “Gays and lesbians in same-sex life partnerships are as capable as heterosexual couples of expressing and sharing love in its manifold forms. They are capable of constituting a family including affec tion.... T he Aliens Control Act, by omitting to confer on persons who are partners in perma nent same-sex life partnerships the benefits it extends to spouses, unfairly discriminates, on the grounds of their sexual orientation and mar ital status, against partners in such same-sex partnerships." T he National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality commented: “T he Department of Home Affairs has persistently acted in a cruel and unjustifiable manner against lesbian and gay people. The sad history of this case is that les bian and gay couples have been harassed, detained and threatened with deportation for the past two years. This is typical of the high handed and bureaucratic bullying of all immi grants and refugees. This decision is the first step in holding the department accountable to all people for its actions.” S ignature UKRAINE fter months of bureaucratic delays, the gay group Our World was officially registered Nov. 30, the first queer organization to achieve such status in Ukraine. A group spokesman thanked Amnesty Inter national for helping flood the Department of Justice with letters supporting the registration. PHOTO BY JOOtE JAPAN amed director Nagisa Oshima returned from a 13-year hiatus on Dec. 6 with a gay- themed samurai movie called G ohatto. 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