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A hill on that matter is pending in gives “mounted “The advent of Talking Out is all Parliament. “What we are trying to do police” a whole the more amazing given that only is get people to stop making remarks new meaning eight years ago all discussion of homosexuality was banned in Tas about homosexuals,” said Vancouver Police Inspector Dave Jones, who authored the manian state schools unless it was about con panic defense resolution and is lobbying for the verting L G B T students into heterosexuals,” hate speech legislation as well. commented Miranda Morris, a member of the department’s LG BT Issues Reference Group. ♦s* “T he Tasmanian experience shows that, as ewfoundlander Robert Ploughman is the daunting as the problem of homophobia in first Royal Canadian Mounted Police offi schools may seem, it is possible to make a big dif cer to come out and remain in the force, Xtra! ference in a relatively short time.” West reports. -5- He is assigned to the University of British Columbia detachment in Vancouver and is ydney’s bankrupt and canceled Mardi Gras among those who patrol Wreck Beach, the city’s celebration has been rescued and will con cruisy gay nude beach. Ploughman dropped out tinue. Four groups took over the organization of a Catholic seminary and entered the police that produced the huge, famous gay extravagan training academy after his first visit to a gay bar za and will sell its assets to pay off debt. in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in January 2000. Volunteers will do what paid staff used to. The “I always knew 1 was attracted to men, but I new owners of the blowout are the AIDS Council never really explored it or worried about it,” he of New South Wales, the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, the Sydney Pride Center and Queer Screen. told Xtra! West. “1 walked into the door of the gay bar in St. John’s for the first time in my life ♦5» and looked around and saw all these guys that look like normal people. I had no contact with bout 17 percent of Australian gays say their the gay community before that point.... In five careers are at a dead end because of a “pink minutes, my life completely changed. 1 knew I ceiling” in the workplace. couldn’t live a lie in the priesthood.” O f the 900 people surveyed, 52 percent have suffered discrimination or harassment on the job because of their sexual orientation, and 21 per INTERNATIONAL ix of the 10 countries that are hoping to be cent were outed by other employees. The results were reported by the organization Workers Out. accepted into the European Union by spring 2003 had anti-gay laws on the books at the time »3* of their membership application. The International Lesbian & Gay Associa huge gay luxury hotel is opening in far- tion and national groups responded by lobbying north Queensland, Melbourne’s Herald the European Parliament to refuse any applicant Sun reported Oct. 4. The 320-room Liberty that “through its legislation or policies violates Resort, located in the town of Kuranda, offers a the human rights of lesbians and gay men,” dance floor, two swimming pools, a solarium, a which the Parliament agreed to do in 1998. health club, a clinic and a beauty salon. Since then, all six nations have repealed their It is geared to gay travelers who usually stay anti-gay laws— Lithuania in September 2000, at mainstream luxury hotels, general manager Estonia in September 2001, Romania in Marcus Bear said. Dormitory rooms will he December 2001, Cyprus in July 2002, and Hun available for less affluent tourists. gary and Bulgaria in September 2002. “This is a truly historic success for the human GERMANY rights policies of the European Union, for the Euro erman health officials are reporting a pean Parliament and for Europe’s LGBT move 1 syphilis “epidemic” among gay men. The ment,” said Ailsa Spindler, ILGA-Europe execu overall rate for the first half of 2002 is double the tive director. “Changes which could have taken rate of recent years, and the institute that com decades without international pressure have been piles medical statistics says queers are responsi effected in a few years. They demonstrate that ble for 60 percent of the increase. LGBT rights are now being taken seriously at the Between 1,100 and 1,200 syphilis cases a European level and give us strong encouragement year were reported from 1995 to 2000, while to pursue actively otherareas of discrimination.” more than 1,100 cases were reported in the first six months of this year. Researchers blame the COLOMBIA increase in unprotected sex on improved HIV he First Commission of Colombia’s Senate treatments causing people no longer to consider approved a gay part the virus a death nership hill Oct. 8 in the sentence. measure’s first committee But they said appearance. that available The vote was 15-1, with data on reduced three senators absent from condom use do the hearing. The hill was not explain the written by Sen. Piedad degree of the Córdoba and introduced by syphilis spike and Sen. Carlos Gaviria Diaz, that Germany has who said it is based on con seen no measur stitutional principles of plu able jump in HIV ralism, personal autonomy transmission. 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