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For Natural Good Health this Year
nation based on sexual orientation, the Interna ! older than 18, the SAPA news agency reported.
tional Lesbian and Gay Association reported.
The Pink Agenda: Sexual Revolution in South
“Todays announcement...is a major and his Africa and the Ruin of the Family hy Christine
toric step towards the complete
McCafferty and Peter Hammond
elimination of all laws criminaliz
“is not desirable for those under 18
ing same-sex relationships in
who might not be able to separate
fact from fiction,” senior executive
Europe,” the group said. “It brings
officer Iyavar Chetty said. “The
to an end nearly 10 years of cam
paigning.... All legal provisions
committee was concerned the book
has made assertions that are ques
which discriminate against les
bian, gay and bisexual relation
tionable to say the least, and the
[authors’] leap from homosexuality
ships have now been eliminated
to criminal conduct is cruel and
from Romania’s criminal law.”
completely without justification.”
Adrian Coman, executive
T he Lesbian and Gay Equality
director of the gay organization
Project called The Pink Agenda
Accept, promised to stay on the
“the Worst example of homopho
lcxikout for violations. “Accept will
bic hate speech ever published in
carefully monitor the effects of this
South Africa.”
political will in the judicial practice Peter Hammond
and will provide free-of-charge
SP AIN
legal assistance to the eventual victims of dis
crimination, since changing the text of laws will
Catholic priest who came out as gay and
not automatically eliminate the situations of dis
noncelibate Feb. 1 was defrocked Feb. 6.
crimination based on sexual orientation,” he said.
Father José Mantero García, 39, broke the
Decriminalization of homosexuality was a pre news in an interview with Zero magazine. He
was a parish priest in the village of Valverde del
condition of Romania’s pending acceptance into
the 15-member European Union. According to Camino in the southwestern Huelva province.
“You have to defend such issues from inside”
1LGA, three other nations that hope to join still
the church, Mantero said. “It’s impossible from
ban gay sex—Cypnis, Hungary and Bulgaria.
outside. And the love of the institution is an
SLOVENIA
essential factor in this internal struggle.... I love
lovenia’s official entry in this year’s Euro the church, and love has to be belligerent.”
Huelva Bishop Ignacio Noguer said the
vision Song Contest— a huge deal in
remarks had placed the priest “outside the
Europe— is “Only Love” by the transvestite trio
Sestre (Sisters). “The song apparently addresses a discipline of the church on a subject of
closeted gay man, encourag
ing him to abandon his fears
and to accept love,” said Ales
Pecnik of the Slovenian
Queer Resources Directory.
The lyrics include: “There
are many ways in life, don’t
look for happiness where
there is none, just listen to
your heart.... Lixik into my
eyes and stop worrying. I
know you feel the same way
as I do. What you desire is not
a sin. It’s love.”
The contest— to be held
May 25 in Tallinn, Estonia—
was won hy a transvestite
singer, Israeli diva Dana
International, in 1998. Other
past victors include Ahba,
The transvestite trio Sestre is competing in this year’s Eurovision
with “Waterloo” in 1974, and
Song Contest
Celine Dion, who represent
extreme gravity and scandal for the faith
ed Switzerland in 1988.
ful__ This obliges me, not without deep
regret, formally to withdraw all ministerial
NEW ZEALAND
licenses from Mr. José Mantero.”
he Family Planning Association has set up a
Juan José Asenjo, a spokesman for the Span
fertility clinic in Auckland for gay men and
ish bishops conference, added, “I don’t think it
lesbians who want to have kids, the Evening Post
is plausible for a priest to live an active homo
reported. The facility will advise clients on
screening for sexually transmitted and hereditary sexual life."
diseases and on legal issues surrounding matters
YUG OS LA V IA
such as custixly and child support payments.
he nation’s first gay radio show is on the air.
“I know of a couple who were very close (to
Gayming is broadcast from 1 to 4 a.m. Tues
doing a home insemination] and were not going
to check the guy out,” clinic head Liz Harding days on Radio 202.
The program includes calls from listeners,
said. “At the last minute they decided to, and that
news, interviews and features. “Due to (the] high
was when he found out" he was HIV-positive.
level of homophobia countrywide and lack of
activities on LC BT issues, this radio show is of
great value and importance to the LC BT com
law splitting property 50/50 when all non-
munity in Yugoslavia, particularly in small
married couples, gay or straight, break up
provincial areas," said Milan Djuric, who is the
tixik effect Feb. 1. It applies to people who have
been together for more than three years unless co-host along with fellow longtime activist
they set up complicated and expensive alterna Dusan Maljkovic. jH
tive arrangements through an attorney.
Compiled hy R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
for the gay press since 1 985. He has a bachelor's
SOUT H A F R I C A
he Film and Publication Board has ruled that degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
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