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Members of the “Pussy Posse” relax after the first Palace in 1999
CANADA
iquor law violation charges were dropped
^Jan. 31 against the organizers of a female
“Pussy Palace” night at a gay bathhouse in
Toronto. Justice Peter Hryn threw out all of the
evidence, ruling the raid by male city police offi
cers should have been conducted by women.
“The search was carried out in an unreason
able manner," he said. “There was no reason
why male rather than female officers were
used.... 1 find the breach [of the Canadian
Charter o f Rights and Freedoms] to he serious.”
The event was held Sept. 15, 2000, at Club
Toronto. The charter bans unreasonable searches.
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“‘BuiCcCing
J ancouver’s Rape Relief Soci
ety discriminated against
transsexual Kimberly Nixon when
it declared she was not woman
enough to volunteer as a coun
selor, the British Columbia
Human Rights Commission ruled
Jan. 18. It was ordered to pay her
$4,660 for injured dignity.
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from the government’s desire to prevent an
explosion of HIV infection among gay men,
who are believed to make up only a small per
centage of Chinese AID S cases.
JA P A N
he more than 200 small gay bars in Tokyo’s
Shinjuku 2-chome neighborhood have
seen a drop-off in customers, in part because it’s
easier and cheaper to make new friends online,
Japan Times reported Jan. 28.
“Today, gays can meet friends or sex part
ners through Internet sites quickly and for
free,” said Bungaku Ito, editor of the gay maga
zine Barazoku. “They no longer need to bother
to come all the way to 2-chome
and pay for drinks just to meet
people.”
Shinjuku 2-chome also is losing
customers to hundreds of small gay
bars that have opened up in
nightlife areas that previously were
patronized only hy straight people,
Japan Times said. Ito said the num
ber of personal ads in his magazine
has plummeted, too, from about
1,000 a month to 200.
T
N O RW A Y
penly gay Finance Minister
A U S T R A L IA
Per-Kristian Foss made world
he top cop in the Aus
history Jan. 25 when he was
tralian state o f Victoria
installed as acting prime minister
Kimberly
Nixon
participated in M elbou rne’s
temporarily.
seventh G ay Pride parade
Prime Minister Kjell Magne
Jan. 20. T h e march included about 70 co n
Bondevik and Foreign Minister Jan Petersen,
tingents and was watched hy 5 0 ,0 0 0
who is second in the line of succession, were
both out of the country. “I think that this, per
spectators.
Christine Nixon was the first police com
haps, can have a small impact on the discussion”
missioner in Australian history to join a Gay
of gay rights, Foss told Reuters.
Pride parade. Assistant Commissioner Noel
Last month, he likely became the first
Ashy and about 50 officers and recruits also
Cabinet-level official in the world to marry a
same-sex partner. The Conservative tied the knot
marched.
with Jan Erik Knarhakk under Norway’s gay part
N ixo n and th e o th e r officers were
nership law, which grants more than 99 percent
denounced hy the opposition N ational
of the rights and obligations of matrimony.
Party and some callers to radio talk shows.
"It is inappropriate for the ch ief com m is
“1 see that many newspapers are writing
sioner to take
about it and that’s nice, hut I don’t think about
it that much,” Foss told Reuters.
part
in
this
march, and it is
C H IN A
also wrong for
police officers to
hina’s state-run media have developed an
he paid to march
“insatiable appetite” for news about gays in
in
th eir u n i
the past two months, Singapore’s Straits Times
form s,” opposi
reported Jan. 27. It started in November when
tion
leader
the Huaxia Times called China “half a heaven
-Denis N apthine
for homosexuals,” the paper said.
said.
This month, the craze led M odem Civiliza
tion Pictorial, published hy the Chinese Acad
Nixon told the
emy of Social Sciences, to devote an entire
Sunday Age: “It is
about
Victoria
issue to homosexuality. A gay cover story also
Christine Nixon
appears in February’s City W eekend magazine.
Police
showing
that they are committed to the whole commu
The Ministry of Public Health says China
nity.... I think it is probably a break from previ
has 30 million to 40 million gay men. It has no
ous tradition, hut I think it is an important
estimate of the lesbian population.
Activists speculate the new openness flows
step."
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