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transsexuals in glittery wigs, animal rights
activists, a guy in a kilt on stilts, agnostics, bik
ers and representative of unions and leftist polit
ical parties.”
Speaking one day later to pilgrims and
tourists in St. Peters Square, Pope John Paul 11
called homosexuality “objectively disordered”
and “contrary to the laws of nature.”
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srael has quietly begun allowing gay cit
izens’ foreign partners to immigrate.
At a recent meeting of the Knesset
Committee on the Status of Women,
the Interior Ministry’s Batya Carmon
said immigration officials now treat
same-sex couples as common-law
spouses.
A foreign partner must pre
sent a request at the district
office of the In
terior Ministry
along
with
proof of the
relationship.
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gays in Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake and Amarentia
Dam cruising areas.
Police will increase patrols at the locations
and work with park officials to install new light
ing. The NCGLE will launch a community
policing unit composed of gay men, lesbians and
men who have sex with men.
The gay paper Exit called the plans “one of
the most positive examples of the spirit and free
dom of the new South Africa.”
NCGLE Director Carrie Shelver noted:
“Ten years ago police arrested men
for having sex with men.
Now, in the new
South Africa, the
police have approached
us to offer their protec
tion.... It is a significant
step forward in the realiza
tion of lesbian and gay
rights.”
'he Nazi sympathizer who
bombed London’s Admiral
Duncan gay pub in April 1999
received six life prison sentences
June 30.
The attack by David Copeland, 24,
killed three people and injured 86.
In sentencing Copeland, Judge Michael
Hyam said: “Anyone who has heard the facts of
this case will he appalled and horrified at the
atrocity of your crimes.... The public must be
protected from you and assured that if you are
ever released it will not be for a very long time.”
Copeland received one life sentence for each
murder, one for the bombing itself, and one each
for two other bombings that targeted blacks and
Bangladeshis.
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LEB AN O N
he nation’s first gay group has formed after
Lebanese gay men found one another on
the Internet.
Club Free leader “Mazen” told Philadelphia
Gay News: “Surfing the Net has allowed us to
witness a growing openness of the gay commu
nity, and now we in Lebanon wish not only to
witness hut participate.”
The organization’s 30 members are Christ
ian, Sunni Muslim, Shiite Muslim and Jewish.
SO U TH A FR IC A
he South African Police Service and the
National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian
Equality are teaming up to combat crime against
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He told the court: “I believe in what I
believed in and I took that belief to the extreme.
If no one remembers who you were, then you
never existed. My aim was political. It was to
cause a racial war in this country.”
■ Compiled by R ex W c XTKNER, who has reported
far the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career a s a radio reporter.
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