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B R A ZIL
he Parliam ent of the Minas
Gerais state passed a bill last
m onth banning discrimination based
on sexual orientation and guarantee
ing same-sex couples the right to
show affection in public w ithout
being harassed.
Those who violate the law face
fines of up to $21,600. Businesses
could be shut down, and public offi
cials could he fired and barred ffom
working for the government.
The measure also creates a referral
center for gay, lesbian, bi and trans
people who experience discrimina
tion and places a sexual minority rep
resentative on the state Hum an
Rights Council. Gov. Itamar Franco
is expected to sign the bill into law.
A t least three other Brazilian
states— Bahia, M ato Grosso and
Sergipe— and more than 80 cities also
ban discrimination based on sexual
orientation.
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E A S T TIM O R
he C o n stitu en t Assembly of
East Timor removed gay protec
tions ffom the new nation’s draft con
stitution Dec. 13, PortugalGay.PT
reported.
N orw ay has a gay finance minister, Per-Kristian Foss
A total of 52 of its 88 members specif
ically voted to exclude “sexual orientation” from
N O R W AY
an anti-discrim ination clause. Bias will he
er-Kristian Foss, a longtime Conservative
member of Parliament who publicly ac banned based on “color, race, gender, marital
status, ethnic origin, economic or social status,
knowledged he is gay in February 2000, has been
beliefs or ideology, politics, religion, education
named finance minister.
T hat is the third-highest post in the govern and mental or physical condition?’
O ne member of the assembly, Joao Carras
ment, after the minister of foreign affairs and the
calao, called homosexuality “an illness” and “an
prime minister. Foss, 51, came out during his
campaign for the chairmanship of the C o n anomaly” and said protecting gays would create
“social chaos." A nother member said the only
servative Party’s Oslo branch, which he won.
homosexuals in East Timor are foreigners.
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The people of East Timor voted for indepen
dence from Indonesia in 1999. In response,
orwegian children raised by lesbians are
not harmed in any way, University of according to EastTimor.com, “Indonesian-trained
militia in the country were unleashed across the
Tromstf researchers have found.
These kids have no more problems than
others in areas such as social skills, school
achievem ent and general well-being, accord
ing to the study. “T he results are somewhat sur
prising in view of the negative attitude that
still exists towards homosexuality in society,”
said Margrethe Seeger Halvorsen, one of the
researchers.
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T eorgina Beyer, the world’s only transsexu-
Jf al member of Parliament, took center
stage at the Midsumma Gay and Lesbian Arts
and Cultural Festival this m onth in M el
bourne, Australia.
“I get asked questions no other politician
would ever have to answer,” the 44-year-old told
the Age. “Regarding the surgery, you know, ‘Did
it hurt?’ O r ‘W hen you have sex now as a
woman, is it different to how you had sex as a
man?’ Well, honey, obviously."
Back home in New Zealand, Beyer is busy
helping draft a civil unions hill extending most
marriage rights to gay couples. T he Midsumma
festival runs through Feb. 3.
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68-year-old businessman in Haikou, Hai
nan, was sentenced to apologize and pay a
12-cent fine to each of three male co-workers he
fondled and kissed, Xinhua reported Jan. 4.
W ang G uang told the court he thought the
men were gay. O ne plaintiff told the court his
wife filed for divorce and threatened to have
an abortion after the case became public
knowledge.
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country— massacring civilians, cutting power and
waterlines and burning 85 percent of the buildings
in the country, including virtually all schools and
nearly all businesses.”
The nation is under U.N. protection, hut
power will be handed over May 20. Members of
the assembly were elected by voters in August.
S P A IN
he 14th International AIDS Conference is
set for July 7 to 12 in Barcelona. Organizers
say the gathering will “focus on translating the
knowledge gained ffom science and experience
ffom all nations, particularly the most affected
areas of the world—sub-Saharan Affica, South and
Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin Ameri
ca— into action at all levels.’
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