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xfehmary 2. 2001 18 i ’ iijm sinew s JV T c A U S TR A LIA l A CCB # 146298 P h o n e:5 0 3 282-3957 General Contractor -AM P hases Remodeling, Roofing F ~ Residential ~ Comandai - Construction BBB I Ace ns ed ~ Bonded - insured J SAINT Ï L JUDE Care Center We are searching for qualified and caring 6 0 0 3 S E 1 3 6 th Avenue Registered Nurses Licensed Practical Nurses Certified Medication Aides Certified Nursing Assistants Nursing Professionals P o rtlan d , O R 97236 P le a se co n tact Penny at 5 0 3 -7 6 1 -1 1 5 5 O u r w o rk e nviro n m e n t hon o rs the diversity o f o u r staff. W e o ffe r co m p e titive w a g es and benefits, including health in suran ce fo r dom estic partners. LC P H «C w o te sto *» " G r® c n P cac® c o n se r v a "^ A R ) * B |^ o c h o if I he opening night of U.S. playwright Ter rence McNally’s Corpus Christi — which features a gay Christ figure as its central char acter— was canceled Jan. 17 in Melbourne fol lowing threats of violence. The production has been denounced by local leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Islamic religions, some of whom protested outside the theater. “Every year it’s getting worse,” said Yasser Soliman, Islamic Council of Victoria president. “It will soon become the norm for people to blas pheme and put down whatever beliefs they like.” Samir Mohtadi, Islamic Information and Service Network of Australasia president, added, “We ask God to curse these people who have taken part in this play and those spon sors. . .all those who assist in this filthy and dirty play of allegations.” T Be Yourself at Work! 4 , total of 50 gay couples staged a public kiss-in Jan. 14 in Brisbane to F a x :5 3 282-3961 protest an 0 incident a week earlier in which two gay men were kicked out of South Bank Park lands for kissing. A city spokes woman said kissers of both same and opposite sexes recently have been asked to stop making out in the park Park patrons’ pecking prohibited ra has hundreds of his works. He is extremely in deference to the sensitivities of “families.” important in the world context.” , 0 °0 o ff l o »e Mafc. esidents of Swan Hill, Victoria, population 10,000, have driven Scott Wheatland out of town because he was organizing a festival cel ebrating gay survival in rural areas. He also had to shut down the restaurant he had run for a year after anti-gay residents boycotted it. “I am moving to Melbourne because I don’t feel comfortable here,” Wheatland told a local newspaper. “I can’t get work anymore. It’s very sad. I was bom in Swan Hill and thought I would be here a long time.” One vocal opponent of the festival, Presby terian preacher Martin de Pyle, said the event “would have been nothing less than a [homo sexual] recruiting drive. Homosexuals live in this town in peace, and we don’t mean them any harm. It was only when they wanted to drive an agenda in the town that the town said we don’t want it.” ❖ etectives in Adelaide confis cated gay artist Robert Map plethorpe’s Pictures from the Folio Foilage bookstore and might file indecency charges, the Australian reported Jan. 10. “Police viewed the book and believed that some of the photographic images, specifically depicting fists pene trating a human anus, could be within the ambit of a restricted publication,” police spokesman John White said. The art world was stunned by the raid, the newspaper said. Australian Centre for Photogra phy director Alasdair Foster called the photos in the book “beautiful and sophisticated images of quite explicit subjects.” Gallery owner Roslyn Oxley of Sydney called Mapplethorpe “one of the most relevant pho tographers coming out of Ameri ca in the 1960s and ’70s. The National Art Gallery in Canber- D When you buy or sell a home with me, you’ll know your dollars are helping support a greater cause. I contribute at least 10% of my earnings to community and environmental organizations. Millynn James ' ABR: Accredited Buyer's Representative f& M im fTAAMiAkff R&MAC R&'MAi equity group 503.330.H O M E (4663) 1.8 0 0 .825.9948 w w w .re a lto r.co m /p o i1 la n d /m illyn n C H IN A H omosexuality is receiving growing accep tance among younger, well-educated het erosexuals in urban China, Agence France-Presse reported Jan. 15. “Shanghai’s gay bars are hum ming...and many in the eastern China metropo lis insist the country’s homosexuals are becoming more liberated,” the wire service reported. Andy, a gay bar owner in the city’s French Quarter, said: “Sexual freedom is the mark of a developed society. When society is prosperous and at peace, gays are more obvious because there is less pressure to get married and repro duce. My father found me surfing some gay Internet sites and told me to be careful because China’s public security bureau tags Internet usage, but he didn’t make a big deal about it.” LA TV IA H IV infections almost doubled in Latvia last year— 466 new cases were counted com pared with 241 in 1999. Officials say that about 80 percent of new infections are among heroin users and that the actual number of infections might be three times higher. Almost 1,000 cases of HIV infection have been counted in the nation of 2.4 million peo ple. A total of 72 people have developed AIDS, and 22 of them have died. S EN EG A L C "* ays are organizing in the African nation of J Senegal. Groupe Andligeey recently has received some assistance from the Senegal National AID S Program and the National Alliance Against AIDS. Members now are hoping to make contact with foreign gay groups, President Serigne M’Bodji said. The organization needs technical
