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- juiy S. 2002 » i'n jiiiiin e w s Vacation Thravel Planners • Oregon * FIRST certified Tahiti “Tiara” Specialist • certified Fiji “Matai” Specialist • certified Australian “Aussie” Specialists • Give a call for all your travel needs! ay Australian members of Parliament will be able to take their lovers on official overseas trips at government expense under new regulations that the Herald Sun newspaper learned about via a Freedom of Inform ation request and reported June 11. Gay Green MP Bob Brown fought for the change. “I am the only MP in history whose long-term partner has had to pay to accompany the MP on overseas work trips,” he said. G ^ay G am es registration i has closed for some C sports th a t are full, the A de ‘Serving Our Community...by Meeting Your Needs' R ip R u p in s k i A U STR A LIA { 563 ) — presents— Gay Games VI Sydney, Oet 30-Nov 15 ‘J oin our group o f Team Oregon members and supporters to Sydney for the Gay Games 223-1181 (513) * 74-4384 Forget wine. Bring the box. Hip, urban gift boxes for any occasion. T hanks to new regulations in A ustralia, gay politician Bob Brown will be able to take his partner with him on official overseas trips at government expense laide gay newspaper Blaze reported June 7. About 12,400 athletes from 52 countries are expected at the 2002 Games in Sydney. N o more participants can register for squash, swim ming, sailing, physique, badminton, golf, m en’s basketball or men’s Division B volleyball. Games officials are unhappy that registrants are 72 percent male. They were hoping for a 50/50 gender split. F IJ I total of 30 gay men and lesbians from Fiji have been awarded free air tickets, lodging and registration to attend the Gay Games in Syd ney but still might not be able to go because they don’t have the money for visa fees and other paper work, Agence France-Presse reported June 11. Games organizers handed out the scholar ships in hopes of increasing participation by indigenous people. But no one in Fiji is willing to help with the incidental expenses. “There was absolutely no response from those We approached tor assistance,” said Luisa Tora, who hopes to attend the Games with her lover, Sangee- ta Singh. She said they targeted businesses and other entities that have funded sporting efforts. A S P A IN pain has denied entry visas to Third World delegates to the XIV International AIDS Conference scheduled for July 7 to 12 in Barcelona, according to John Tallada, the gather ing’s local community chair. “It is a whopping contradiction as it is scholarship holders and peo ple from developing countries, many of whom are from nongovernmental organizations or are HIV positive and whose expenses are paid by the con ference thanks to a program that the Spanish government has helped to create,” he said. Delegates who have not received visas hail from Bangladesh, Colombia, India, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Pakistan, Uganda and elsewhere. “The International AIDS Conference is not held in the U.S.A. because of this kind of prob lem,” said Shaun Mellors, the event’s communi ty coordinator. “W hen Barcelona was chosen, we were guaranteed that participants would not have any problem.” Tallada called on the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to intervene immediately and force Spanish consulates around the world to issue the delegates’ visas. S ;nt Sam Nujoma apparently likes gays more than he used to. Asked June 7 by the G erm an wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur about his previous gay-bashing and his relationship with his nation’s queers, he said: “Well, certainly that is not our culture.... You can keep your culture, and I keep mine.” But he added: “1 think human relationships must be promoted to respecting each other’s cul ture and way of life. We get along.” T h at’s a far cry from statements Nujoma has made at home, which include: “In Namibia we don’t allow lesbianism or homosexuality.... We will combat this with vigor— we will make sure that Namibia will get rid of lesbianism and homosexuality.... Police are ordered to arrest you and deport you and imprison you.... Those who are practicing homosexuality in Namibia are destroying the nation. Homosexuals must be condemned and rejected in our society.... It is the devil at work.” order online at www.urbanabox.com or call 503.777.6179 Don’t let your feet walk all over you. Debra K. Lynch, DPM Treating all diseases & surgery of the foot including: Physician ana Surgeon b > } V bj i UN ITED KINGDOM ll 6,750 firefighters in London will be ques tioned about their sexual orientation in a new internal census. 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