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CANADA
Early reports did not detail what rights
he Canadian Association of Police
would be granted to same-sex couples. The
Boards is supporting a resolution call
bill faces additional hurdles before it
ing for elimination of the gay-panic
could become law.
defense, in which an attacker is acquitted
or receives a lesser sentence after claim
AUSTRALIA
ing the victim made a pass at him. They
asmania’s State Education
also have called for queers to be added to
Department has launched a
the list of groups protected from hate
queer issues bulletin to keep schools
speech and propaganda, according to a
informed of the latest developments
report in Vancouver’s Xtra! West.
Robert Ploughman in anti-homophobia programs.
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.
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“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.
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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
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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
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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. The
and equality.
researchers con-
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