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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 2000)
17 i'íijM j'in ew s TAIWAN aipei’s first gay forum, sponsored by the city government, has been scheduled for Sept. 3, China Times reported. The event will feature “noted homosexuals” from Taiwan and around the world, including American activists Michael Bronski and Nan Hunter, according to the city’s Bureau of Civil Affairs. T In preparation for the Taipei Homosexuality Forum, the agency has printed pamphlets for the general public explaining gay history and cul ture and that homosexuality is biologically based. It also has published a comprehensive guide to the island’s gay groups and meeting places. The bureau also will sponsor a gala, a design show and art shows at Warners Village Square near City Hall in conjunction with the forum. NORWAY rond Giske, Norway’s minister of churches and education, has upheld the hiring of the nation’s first openly noncelibate gay preacher by the Oslo Bishops Council of the state Lutheran church. He said Jens Torstein Olsen was the “best qualified” person for the job. Bishops who dis agreed with the hiring had appealed to Giske, the formal employer of state church clergy, say ing the appointment violated a 1997 decision by the church’s national convention that preachers with same-sex lovers could not hold “consecrat ed” positions. Murray Warren and Peter Cook, who have lived together for 29 years, say Canadian law has no prohibition against same-sex marriage. “Our rights to be treated equally as citizens in a demo cratic country and as a couple in a long-term, loving relationship are being denied because of our sexual orientation,” Cook told reporters. Provincial Attorney General Andrew Petter agrees. “In a modem society, there is no justifi cation for denying same-sex couples the same option to form marital bonds as are afforded to opposite-sex couples,” He said. 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Among the speakers will be Fritz Klein, who organizers described as “the father of modern bisexuality theory and research.” Call 011-44-794-609-2727 or visit the Internet site come.to/bicon for more \ information. T KL Two-thirds would have no problem with a gay bishop in the state Lutheran church. Three- fourths wouldn’t mind if the prime minister were gay. Telephone pollsters questioned 993 people in early May. CANADA gay couple in British Columbia have filed a complaint against the provincial govern ment with the Human Rights Commission because they can’t get married. GUATEMALA uatemalan police are abusing \ transvestites, Amnesty Inter national said July 18. “There are strong indications that Guatemalan police have sub jected transvestites to systematic abuse, including threats, harassment and rape, which is tantamount to ‘social cleansing,’ ” AI USA’s Michael Heflin said. 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