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prornrn 22 Ju s* out • acni 21 .2000 n e w s They'll tune your engine. They'll fix your car. And as an added bonus, they'll save the planet. ARGENTINA rans activist Vanesa Lorena Ledesma died Feb. 16 in police custody in Cordoba’s 18th precinct of an alleged heart attack. She had been arrested five days earlier for allegedly damaging the premises during a fight at a bar. Local activists charge that Ledesma died not of cardiac arrest but as a result of “physical pun ishment and torture,” which, they said, was doc umented by an autopsy. The autopsy reportedly found broken bones and signs that she had been beaten all over her body, including while handcuffed. T “I cannot support their lifestyle through a proclamation,” he said. Tribunal member Carol Roberts called Gray’s edit “tantamount to a political insult" and said it unlawfully discriminated against gay men and lesbians because of their sexual orien tation. P opular Tele-Quebec food host and sex symbol Daniel Pinard, 57, came out of the closet in March. Legions of lusty female viewers were appar AUSTRIA ently flung org Haider, the de facto leader of the far-right into the Freedom Party, is a closeted gay man, accord ing to recent reports in Britain’s The Guardian, abyss of Germany’s Berlin Tageszeitung and Austria’s Der existential despair Standard. upon Haider, 49, also has sex with boys below the learning Austrian age of consent, which is 18, the reports said, and he often has sex in neighboring Slova of Pinard’s sexual ori kia, where the age of consent for gay sex is 15. entation. The papers said Haider’s current partner is a youthful member of the Freedom Party who has Said Toronto’s worked as his personal secretary. “We’ve known about Haider’s homosexuali Globe and ty for about 10 years,” the national gay group Mail: “With his seductive blue Homosexual Initia eyes, silver-grey hair, handsome features and tive Vienna said in athletic build, Mr. Pinard is a younger Paul a statement. “On Newman. He is bright, cultured, funny. He talks the one hand, we about food in such a sensuous way that you want think it’s positive to eat his dishes right away, preferably with him that the rumors are facing you across the table in soft candle light.” no longer capable of In his coming out interview, Pinard told ruining a political reporters: “I wouldn’t be here tonight if it had career; on the other not been for [the late actor] Jean-Louis Millette. hand, an earlier He saved me from suicide. He told me: ‘You’ll be outing of Haider happy some day, hut keep your mouth shut. Peo would have been ple are not as tolerant as you think.’ ” justified.” Pinard added: "It’s terrible for teenagers, Haider threw because they’re surrounded by kids who are Europe into turmoil frightened by their own sexuality and their own early this year when Jörg Haider ambivalence and are searching for an image to the Freedom Party destroy." entered the Austri Haider's opponents an government in coalition with the im Stevenson, a gay member of British consider him conservative Peo Colum bia’s Legislative Assembly, was a xenophobic, ple’s Party. Amid elected deputy speaker of the body March 14. growing protests, he He is the first openly gay deputy speaker in racist extremist who, resigned as the Canadian his party’s official chair as the U.S. Anti- tory. man while main “The gay Defamation League taining a leadership and lesbian role. put it, has made community has Haider’s oppo come a long nents consider him "numerous statements way,” Steven a xenophobic, racist utilizing Holocaust son said. "This extremist who, as appointment terminology or the U .S. Anti- helps illustrate Defamation League legitimizing Nazi the advances put it, has made being made at “numerous state policy and activities" all levels of ments utilizing society.” Holocaust terminology or legitimizing Nazi pol He added: icy and activities.” “We now have the first ethnic minority person The Freedom Party’s parliamentary leader, as [provincial] premier, nine women in [the] Peter Westenthaler, called the reports of cabinet and an out gay person as deputy speak Haider’s homosexuality “absurd...sleaze-mon- er. These are important steps toward full equali gering and refused further comment. ty in British Columbia. I would never have dreamed just 10 or 15 years ago we would see the CANADA advances we have made.” Stevenson lives in Vancouver’s gay West End W o T 9 ray’ mayor Kelowna, British Columbia, says he will no longer sign any with his partner of 19 years, Gary Paterson. 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