¡une 1.2001
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503 274-9936
KAREN M. 5 WEIGERT, MD
O bötetrice and Gynecology
B
erlins Tourism and Marketing Board has
published a map for gay visitors. “We are sim
ply responding to demand, especially from the
U.S. market,” manager Hanns Peter Nerger said.
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According to a jour
Special Field Force
nalist at the scene,
reportedly detained he told Special Field
Force members: “I
num erous men
told you not to
recently in Katutura, assault or touch
a Suburb Of the Capital anybody. Who told
you to take these
city o f Windhoek,
men’s earrings? It
not
be
fo r wearing earrings should
repeated again.”
SWITZERLAND
ay couples entered into Switzerland’s
first legally recognized same-sex partner
ships May 8 at City Hall. Under the law,
which applies only in Geneva canton, regis
tered gay and straight couples will be treated
the same as married couples in dealings with
the state except in the areas of taxation,
adoption and social security benefits, accord
ing to SwissInfo.org.
“We now have the same rights as heterosex
ual couples,” activist Yves de Matteis said as he
tied the knot with his- lover, Patrick Berguer.
“The authorities are recognizing our life togeth
er, and that may give our relationship a more
lasting perspective.”
G
AUSTRALIA
F
ive gay protesters were arrested for disrupt
ing the installation of Sydney’s new
Catholic bishop May 10, the Australian Broad
casting Corporation reported.
About 80 demonstrators targeted George
Pell outside the church with chants of “Church
kills queers” and “Shame, Pell, shame” and plac
ards reading “Get your rosaries off our ovaries.”
The arrests occurred when protesters attempted
to squeeze in behind a school choir that was ser
enading the bishop.
The police said they took action to prevent
an outbreak of violence. A spokesman for the
protesters said the arrests were unnecessary and
were made simply to halt the demonstration.
HONG KONG
H
ong Kong actor/singer Leslie Cheung
has told Time magazine he’s bisexual.
He reportedly lives with a partner known
only as Mr. Tong. At a recent concert in Toron
to, a fan shouted, “I love you,” and Cheung
shouted hack, "I love you too, whether you’re a
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amibia’s paramilitary Special Field Force
reportedly detained numerous men re
cently in Katutura, a suburb of the capital city of
Windhoek, for wearing earrings.
Officers reportedly said they were acting on
orders from vociferously anti-gay President Sam
Nujoma, but the Ministry of Information told
the BBC: “The president had at no time issued
orders in any shape or form for SFF members to
act against anyone wearing earrings or any
other piercing.... The government does not
condone
human
rights violations or
harassment of indi
vidual citizens.”
Cmdr. Sacharia
Asheela reportedly
arrived on the scene
while the detained
men were being
questioned
and
ordered officers to
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bout 40 gay activists clashed with police
during a World Red Cross Day ceremony
May 6 at Telford Plaza in Kowloon Bay.
They unfurled a large banner and flung
leaflets to protest the Red Cross’ blanket ban on
gay male blood donors. Police prevented the
demonstrators from confronting Red Cross
chairman Yang Ti-liang.
“We urge the Red Cross to refer to the inter
national AIDS prevention guidelines and just
exclude blood that really has a possibility to
spread diseases,” protest spokesman Tommy
Chen Noel told the Hong Kong iMail newspa
pers. “Homosexuality is not a problem if people
adopt safe sexual behavior.”
UNITED KINGDOM
he chairman of Britain’s national blood
authority has called gay men who donate
blood “evil.” Mike Fogden said they are “putting
at risk the innocent lives of innocent patients.”
He later was forced by the nation’s junior
health minister to apologize for the remarks
and admitted, “The tone was ill-conceived and
unnecessarily judgmental.” Like many nations,
Britain bans all men who have sex with men
from donating blood regardless of whether they
have safe sex and are HIV-negative.
T
U
p to eight Japanese transsexuals will file
suit to have their new genders recorded on
their family registrations, Kyodo News reported
May 6. The Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
OK’d sex-change operations in 1997.
c
Central Scotland Police plan to recruit sex
ual and ethnic minorities to increase
diversity, The
Scotsman news
paper reported.
“I would ex
tend an open
invitation to all
lesbian, gay and
transsexual
groups to seri
ously consider
the police force
as a profession,”
Chief Constable
Andrew Cam
eron said. “We
Scottish police don’t
have an un
care what’s under
equivocal open
recruits’ kilts
ness in Central
Scotland toward everyone in our community,
and I would urge them to come along and see
what we are about.’ ’ j n
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
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