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resident Sam Nujoma lashed out at gay men
and lesbians again Aug. 16 while addressing
delegates to the Namibia Public Workers Union
Congress.
“In Namibia we will not allow these lesbians
and gays,” he said. “We fought the liberation
struggle without that. We do not need it in our
country. We have whites who are Namibians,
hut they must remember they have no right to
force their culture on anyone. If they are lesbian,
they can do it at home hut not show it in public.
“I warn you as workers not to allow homosex
uality," he continued. “Africa will he destroyed....
Namibia only has a population of 1.8 million.”
Nujoma said people who become gay do not
have children and thereby retard population
growth.
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Wong refused to comment on the article.
Australia’s Parliament has two openly gay men.
V IE T N A M
A
crime novel built around a gay love
a affair— A World Without Women by Bui
Anh Tam— has won Vietnam’s Peace and Safe
ty literary prize. The award is conferred jointly
by the police department, the public security
ministry and the Vietnam Writers Association.
CANADA
anada’s Human Rights Tribunal ordered an
anti-gay Web site shut down Aug. 21 for
violating laws against hate.
The site claimed gays are sexual predators
who support legalization of pedophilia, practice
bestiality and strive to comipt all of society. A
Vancouver gay man filed a complaint
against the site in 1999, saying it vio
lated his rights under the nation’s
Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
he vocally anti-
gay head of the
Roman
Catholic
Church in Australia,
ritish Columbia's VanCity Credit
Sydney Archbishop
! Union has become the first Cana
George Pell, has
dian financial institution to court gays
been accused of hav
via mainstream daily newspapers.
ing sex with a 12-
One advertisement shows a male
year-old altar boy.
couple with their arms around each
The incidents al
other above the caption, “I want to
legedly tixik place in
bank with people who value all part
1961 when he was
nerships.” Additional text states, “We
studying at a semi
were among the first to implement
nary in Melbourne.
industry-leading workplace policies
Pell
denied
the
charges hut stepped Sydney Archbishop George Pell has that respect all families by including
down from his post been accused of having sex with a
same-sex employee benefits, because
it was the right thing to do.”
temporarily anyway.
12-year-old altar boy
VanCity, Canada’s largest credit
“The allegations
are false,” he said. “To allege that 1 am .. .person union, has received an equal number of support
ive and*hostile telephone calls in response to the
ally implicated in this evil is a smear of the most
ads, according to the Natiorial Post. Previous
vindictive kind.”
VanCity campaigns in the mainstream media
Pell has spoken out against gay rights and has
refused communion to Catholic activists who reg targeted Chinese and indigenous Canadians.
ularly attend Mass wearing rainbow-colored sashes.
“The church’s teaching on this matter can
ritish Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal
not, will not, change,” he said in 1998.
has ordered the small city of Terrace to pro
“Although human weakness is universal and
claim and advertise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
G od’s mercy infinite, the path to happiness and
Transgender Pride Day. The town’s council had
heaven for a Catholic does not lie in seeking to
refused to do so.
reinterpret what is right or wrong.”
Terrace, population 13,000, is 930 miles
Pell also has called homosexuality "a greater
north of Vancouver. The tribunal said July 30
health hazard than smoking.”
the City Council violated the provincial human
rights code when it rejected proclamation
requests from the Rainbow B.C. Coalition and
roups of young Australian men get drunk,
the Rainbow Committee of Terrace.
then go lixsking for “ptxsfters" to heat up, a
new report has detailed.
“In many cases it is aggressive young men hav
he Supreme Court of British Columbia gave
ing a few drinks and then going out for the hunt,
its blessing to a class-action lawsuit by gay
for sport, to find a few ptxsfters to beat up— and
couples seeking survivor benefits under the
they get carried away” and kill them, Australian
Canadian Pension Plan, the Canadian Press wire
Institute of Criminology director Adam Graycar
service reported Aug. 2. The judges said the case
told the New Zealand Herald. He said the anti-gay
is the appropriate avenue to settle the question.
attacks are notable both for their randomness and
Benefits are denied to gays whose partners
their extreme, “frenzied” brutality, “with victims
died before Jan. 1, 1998. Federal legislation
tormented and wounded repeatedly.”
passed in 2000 was retroactive to that date. The
The report found that hashers who commit
murder often are acquitted or receive signifi plaintiffs called the cutoff arbitrary.
cantly reduced sentences after claiming they
were fighting off a sexual advance or assault. “If
he only gay bookstore in Quebec closed at
every woman dealt with an unwanted sexual
Ithe end of August.
advance in this way, there would he bodies lit
Montreal’s L’Androgyne had been on the
tered all over the streets,” Graycar said.
scene for 29 years. Owner Bernard Rousseau
blamed competition from chain stores.
“How can one compete with Cost-
newly elected member of Parlia
co/Price Club.7” he asked the local gay
ment, Penny Wong of South
magazine Fugues. “Not even to men
Australia, has been outed by the Ade
tion virtual bookstores such as Am a
laide Advertiser daily newspaper. “In
zon.com, which has an excellent selec
Labor circles, it is also well known Sen
tion and which frequently offers its
ator Wong is gay, a fact she would pre
bcxiks for less than L’Androgyne can.”
fer to leave as a private matter,”
reporter Samantha Maiden wrote.
Penny Wong
Rousseau also said video chains
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