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THE NETHERLANDS
sons, susceptible to being configured according to
rince Johan Friso—second in
a plurality of cultural models,” he said in a speech
to Vatican bureaucrats. “You observe that in a
line to the throne—is not
gay, the government said Feb. 14.
very clear way in the ongoing attempts to present
"He’s fed up with these ru
de facto unions, including homosexual ones, as
mors,” spokesman Eef Brouwers
comparable to marriage, in which one negates, in
Prince
said. “He’s not a homosexual.”
fact, the natural character. The natural considera
Johan Friso
tion of marriage shows us that a couple unite
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themselves precisely because they are persons of
he first European Bisexual Conference is different sexuality, with all the spiritual richness
scheduled for June 22 to 24 in Rotterdam.
that this diversity has at a human level.”
“European bisexuals will need to be able to find
each other.. .to exchange information and expe
NEW ZEALAND
rience in the areas of freedom of sexual prefer
ens of thousands of people braved the driz
ence and the position of bisexuality within the
zle Feb. 17 to watch Auckland’s seventh
various countries’ societies,” organizers said in a
gay Hero Parade on Ponsonby Road. According
press release.
to the New Zealand Herald, “It was a night of
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lesbian mothers with their kids and ordinary
folk just out for a look.”
Prime Minister Helen Clark cut a ribbon to
launch the two-hour parade. Transsexual Mem
ber of Parliament Georgina Beyer and Auckland
Mayor Christine Fletcher were among other
guests of honor.
The 70 floats included entries by the Coast
Guard and by local firefighters, organizer
Heather Lee said. "The parade was fantastic,
colorful, spectacular and amazing.”
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he police department in the state of Victo
ria recruited gays and lesbians Feb. 3 and 4
during Melbourne’s gay Midsumma Festival.
Acting Superintendent Stuart King said the
force needs to reflect the state’s ethnic, religious
and cultural diversity. The recruitment booth was
staffed by a deputy commissioner, an assistant
commissioner, recruitment officers, members of
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CHINA
op music star Mao Ning was outed after
being stabbed near a cruisy Beijing park
allegedly by an angry ex-lover, Guan Ming.
apparently has departed China to avoid the
media and distressed fans.
Writing in The Advocate, gay journalist Steve
Friess, who is spending a year working overseas,
said coverage of the stabbing marked the first
time local press reported on a celebrity’s homo
sexuality. He said the newsmagazine 21st CentU'
ry called the incident “the biggest scandal to hit
China’s entertainment world in recent years.”
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TAIWAN
ccording to the Taipei Times, someone
threw a brick Jan. 27 through the window
of the local gay bookstore Gin Gin’s. Dozens of
gay rights groups have denounced the incident.
“It seemed a minor case of a small gay and les
bian bookstore being attacked with a brick, and
FRANCE
the mere breaking of a window seems like no big
esbian tennis star Amelie Mauresmo and
loss at all,” the organizations said in a statement.
her lover of three years, Sylvie Bourdon, “But if the attack on Gin Gin’s was made because
have broken up. “We have decided to go our it’s a gay and lesbian bookstore, then that sends a
separate ways,” she
strong message of hatred
against homosexuality.
told Le Figaro.
If the attack with a brick
Mauresmo said
is tolerated today, we
she hoped the media
might see attacks with
would respect her
petrol bombs in the
privacy. "I have the
future.” jn
right to my secret
garden.”
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THE VATICAN
WOCKNER, who has
ope John Paul II
reported for the gay press
said Feb. 1 that
since 1985. He has a
gay marriages are
bachelor’s degree in
journalism from Drake
unnatural.
“Marriage is not
University and started
just any old union be
his career as a radio
tween human per-
reporter.
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