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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.
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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.
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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.”
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UN ITED KINGDOM
ll 6,750 firefighters in London will be ques
tioned about their sexual orientation in a
new internal census.
The form will ask whether the individual is “an
out-at-work lesbian, gay man or bisexual.” The
London Fire Brigade and Emergency Planning
Authority says the answers will help it reflect the
community it serves but will not lead to quotas.
A
CANADA
he Superior Court of Justice in Ontario
ordered a print shop June 17 to stop discrim
inating and pay $3,250 to the Canadian Lesbian
and Gay Archives for refusing to print business
cards and letterhead con
taining the word “gay.”
T h e ow ner of Imaging
E xcellence claim ed ac
cepting the job violated
his religious beliefs, but
the judges said it was u n
reasonable to conclude
th a t
S c o tt
Brock ie’s
“co re...relig io u s b e lie f’
could have been affected
by producing the docu
ments. T h e ruling upheld
an earlier decision by an
Scott Brockie
O n tario Board of Inquiry.
T
epresentatives from the Anglican diocese
of New Westminster, British Columbia,
voted 215-129 to offer gay union ceremonies in
churches June 15.
T he diocese includes Vancouver and other
locales in th e southw estern part of the
province. A bout 80 parishes were represented
in the vote.
According to the Canadian Press wire ser
vice, New Westminster is the nation’s first
Anglican diocese to take such a step. American
Anglicans, known as Episcopalians, have reject
ed similar proposals on a national level,
although the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
offers gay union ceremonies.
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