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A U S T R A L IA
senator who accused
\ openly gay High Giurt
judge Michael Kirby of using
government cars to trawl for
young male prostitutes resigned
March 18 as Prime Minister
John Howards parliamentary
secretary after a document on
which his allegations were
based was revealed to he fake.
Bill Heffeman had sent
New South W ales state
police a copy o f a travel
record in connection with his
claims. Kirhy, thought to he
the world’s only openly gay Michael Kirby
justice of a court of final
appeal, had denounced the Liberals charges as
homophobic, false and absurd.
After the resignation, the judge said: “1 accept
Sen. Heffeman s apology and reach out my hand
in a spirit of reconciliation. 1 hope that my ordeal
will show the wrongs that hate of homosexuals
can lead to. Out of this sorry episode, Australians
should emerge with a heightened respect for the
dignity of all minorities.”
In asking the member of Parliament to step
down, Howard commented, “1 would hope that
this incident does not in any way affect the per
formance of [Kirby’s] duties, and Í would point out
that at no stage have 1 expressed any view to the
effect that he is not fit to continue as a member of
the High G xirt bench.’’ Some Australian media
reported that the fake document was given to
Heffeman by the prime ministers personal driver.
CHILE
T
he owner of the nation’s largest soccer team,
Universidad de Chile FC, says he won’t
allow any gay players. Rene Orozco only wants
“real men who are hairy, smelly and tough.”
“I don’t want to get into trouble with the
gays, but I must say a gay league would need dif
ferent mies,” he said. “You wouldn’t want too
much tight marking, for example.”
Gay groups have picketed Orozco’s office.
Activist Rolando Jiménez told Ananova.com he
is a “homophobic and ignorant troglodyte.”
CANADA
total of 15 students at Cedar Secondary
School in Nanaimo, British Gdum bia,
walked out of class March 14 in protest because
officials are letting a teen-age boy who is prepar
ing for a sex-change operation use the girl’s
bathroom. District superintendent Carola Lane
told reporters the pupil has medical authoriza
tion to dress and live as a female.
A
n unnamed gay student at Monsignor John
Pereyma Catholic Secondary School in
Oshawa, G rtario, has been told he can’t take his
boyfriend to the prom because gay sex is a sin.
The teen-ager is threatening to file suit against
the Durham Catholic District School Board with
the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Sun
reported March 21. “I'm’trying
to speed up the prcKess of
equality because I’m sick of
being treated like someone
absent of feeling and emo
tion,” the student wrote in an
open letter to his principal.
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ritain’sGmscrvative Party
is fielding a transsexual
candidate for Haringey G xin -
cil in the Bruce Grove ward of
Tottenham, a racially diverse
sector of London, ThisIsLon-
don.com reported March 14.
B
Rebecca Baty
Rebecca Baty, a staunch
T h atch erite, underwent a
sex-change operation 10 years
ago. “I’ve always been a liber
tarian, and I believe Margaret
T hatcher represented a classi
cally libertarian point of
view,” she told reporters.
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is suing the
A ' i transsexual
British government be
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fore the European Court of
Human Rights because she
can’t collect her pension at
age 60 like other women.
Tire National Insurance
agency told Christine Gcxxl-
win she is actually a man, so she will have to wait
until she is 65. A former bus driver, she under
went sex reassignment surgery in 1990.
Most of the 41 member nations of the Coun
cil of Europe recognize a sex change as legally
valid. Only the U nited Kingdom, Ireland,
Andorra and Albania do not.
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ritish
pop music
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sta W ill Young
came out March 10.
“I’m sure this will
not come as a surprise
to
many
people,
although I’ve always
beerf discreet and I’m
not
a campaigner
when it comes to my Will Young
sexuality,” the 23-year-
old told the News o f the World. “My family and
friends have known ever since I have.”
Young’s "Anyth ing Is Possible”/"Evergrccn” was
released Feb. 25 and went straight to No. 1, becom
ing the fastest-selling debut single in U.K. history.
In June, he will perform at Buckingham Palace with
Elton John, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney to
mark Queen Elizabeth’s golden jubilee.
A
court in Glasgow, Scotland, granted full
parental
rights and
responsibilities
March 7 to a gay sperm donor who fathered a
lesbian couple’s child.
Sheriff Laura Duncan said the women did
not constitute a legal “family unit.” T h e couple
opposed the father’s desire ter have regular
involvement in the child’s life.
A spokesman for the Edinburgh gay lobby
group Equality Network commented, “I wel
come that the sheriff has made it clear that in
the case of the father here, the fact that he is gay
doesn’t stop him from getting full parental
responsibilities...but the law needs to be clari
fied to protect the relationship between the
child and the lesbian partner of a mother.”
TH E N E T H E R L A N D S
P
arties loyal to gay Dutch political figure Pirn
Fortuyn, who is campaigning on an anti
immigration platform, are
expected to capture the sec
ond-largest number of seats in
May’s elections.
A new survey indicates his
allies will grab 29 of Parlia
ment’s 150 seats, more than
the W D and D66 parties,
which, along with the PvdA
Labor party, make up the coali
tion government. T he opposi
tion Christian Democrats also
are forecast to win 29 seats.
Fortuyn and his followers
are particularly upset about
the anti-gay and conservative