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24 Ju st out • AUSTRALIA T 10541 SE Cherry Blossom Dr., Portland (by Mall 205) KAREN M. 6WEIGERT, MD Phone 50 3 274-9936 O b ste trics and Gynecology Fâx he state of Western Australia is requiring nightclubs that stay open past 1 a.m. to install security cameras and keep tapes of their customers’ faces for 14 days, which has upset some gay bar owners who fear patrons will worry about being outed. Police say the new law will help them solve crimes. Tim Brown, who owns Connections in the state capital of Perth, thinks customers who are not fully out of the closet will shy away from his club for fear of being taped. “We haven’t had any problems with violence at Connections, and our record shows that,” he told the West Australian newspaper. “We are concerned for the privacy of the people who come to the club. We didn’t even let people take photos until about five years ago.” Connections and 15 other clubs have asked to be exempted from the law, which goes into effect March 1. 503 274-2660 and “Homosexuality as a Sign of Degeneration and Herald of the End of the World.” The National Human Rights Office has denounced the contest as “discriminatory,” “offensive” and “humiliating” but not illegal. GERMANY D aimler Chrysler is suing the Germ an Web site Vaneo.de, which sells cosm et ics to gays. The corporation, which produces the Mercedes Vaneo van, says the site is detri mental to its image. Bavarian businessman Alfred Stoeckel, the site’s owner, says he owns the legal rights to “Vaneo.de.” NORWAY F inance Minister Per-Kristian Foss wed his boyfriend Jan. 4 under a registered partner ship law granting more than 99 percent of the rights and obligations of marriage. UNITED KINGDOM B 1130 N.W. 22nd, Suite 320, Portland, OR 97210 S a v e the d ate! W e ' re celebrating P resident s P ay M o n d a y . F ebruary 13... ...with the biggest just Out Singles Party EVER AT C en ter Townhouses 2 Bedrooms & Bonus Room NEW PRICE $174,900—$209,000 asketball star Randy Duck, a guard for the Brighton Bears, is talking to his lawyers after someone impersonating him posted a sex ad on a gay Web site, the Brighton Evening Argus reported. “This is really serious, and it is seri ously false,” the 27-year-old said. “I did not put this advert on the Web. 1 don’t even know the Web site. I think it’s pretty sad someone doesn’t have a life and spends their time doing this.” SOUTH AFRICA S ame-sex partners of members of the South African National Defense Force are set to receive all spousal bene fits following publication of new defini tions of “marital status” and “spouse” in the Government Gazette, Q Online reported Jan. 11. The changes bring the forces into line with the nation’s post-apartheid constitution, which bans discrimina tion based on sexual orientation. For military purposes, “spouse” now is defined as “a partner (the partnership being either heterosexual or homosexu al) in a permanent life partnership, if such partnership was attested before a Notary Public.” British basketball babe Randy Duck has denied post ing a sex ad on a gay Web site LATVIA L ’ only 16 of 26 units left financing available for appointment call W indem iere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, Inc. Call Jan Stranski 503 - 497-5255 stranski @ windermere.com atvian Catholic Archbishop Janis Pujats outraged gays Jan. 10 with a Web site com mentary saying: “Vampires and kleptomaniacs [like homosexuals) are also strange orienta tions. But we aren’t required to adopt a law about their special status.” Meanwhile, Protestant Archbishop Janis Vanags told the newspaper Rigas Balss: “Now homosexuals are recognized as a minority. In principle after them pedophiles may also be recognized as a minority.” The clerics’ statements reportedly will be included in their planned submissions to the ongoing “ ‘Latvia W ithout Hom osexuality” essay contest organized by a publishing house, news agencies said. Suggested themes in clude “ Isn’t It High Time We Eliminated Homosexuality “ H om osexu ality— A Norm or Satanism V\ “Does Latvia Need to Join the European U nion T h at Blas phemes the Holy Spir it by Permitting Janis Pujats Sam e-Sex Marriages T’ He is the first member o f the national government to enter into a same-sex union. Foss, a Conservative, and Jan Erik Knarbakk tied the knot at the Norwegian Embassy in Stockholm . They have refused requests for interviews. “It is a private matter,” Foss told the Dagens Naer - ingsliv newspaper. The wedding might be one for world history books as well. “We think that this is the first time that a Cabinet minister anywhere has entered a [gay registered] partnership,” said Ragnhild Samuelsberg of the Norwegian Min istry for Family and Children’s Affairs. ISRAEL O penly gay U .S. Rep. Barney Frank and his partner made an appearance in mid- January at Jem salem Open House, the city’s gay community center. The Massachusetts Democrat was in town on official business, meeting with the president and prime minis ter of Israel and the president of the Palestin ian Authority. “Frank praised the work being done at the Open House in promoting LG B T rights, par ticularly efforts towards including gay and les bian persons of all religious and ethnic back ground," the center said. “He strongly urged the Open House to actively pursue the politi cal struggle for human rights and cited the gay-
