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IS. 2002 • i'iu M jijn e w s j2et me fond ifo new maintain the ban on adoption by unmarried couples, including same-sex couples. T he House of Commons had voted to lift the ban. H ie A doption and C hildren Bill now returns to that chamber, which likely will over rule the Lords, who can delay hut not ultim ate ly kill a measure passed by the Commons. About 5,000 children are awaiting adoption in the U nited Kingdom. Single people, includ ing gays, are allowed to adopt. A U S T R A L IA he Australian Capital Territory, where C an berra is located, has proposed changing 39 laws to replace “spouse" and “de facto spouse" with “domestic partner," in order to decrease dis Marie Fourie and Cecilia Bonthuys plan to crimination against same-sex couples. O nce that is complete, the government appeal for the right to marry in South Africa wants to change an additional 31 laws dealing with partnership issues that might be considered SO U TH A F R IC A more controversial, such as those concerning outh Africa’s Pretoria High Court dismissed children. The ultimate goal, C hief Minister Jon a gay marriage case Oct. 18. Stanhope said, is to end all unequal treatm ent of Two lesbians had d em anded they be gay, lesbian, hi, trans and intersex people. allowed to marry under the same laws as A n “exposure draft” for the first 39 changes opposite-sex couples. T h e national co n stitu will he introduced next m onth in the Assembly. tion bans all discrim ination based on sexual Even if all 70 laws are altered, however, queers orientation. still would face discrimination on the national According to the South African Broadcast level in areas such as marriage, taxation, social ing Corporation, “Judge Pierre Roux ruled that security, superannuation and industrial relations, the matter was of a constitutional nature and according to a report in the Canberra Times. that he was not prepared to exercise his own dis cretion.” T he couple, Marie Fourie and Cecilia M E X IC O Bonthuys, said they will appeal. olice in Merida, Yucatan, detained num er ous people, including gays and transvestites, C R IN A during a surprise raid on downtown streets in C h in a ’s most well-known AIDS activist, late October. who recently spent a m onth in jail for They said they wanted to “create security revealing state secrets, has been allowed to reg and a new image.” Police operative subsecretary ister his private organization. W an Yanhai regis of protection Daniel C arrillo Espinoza tered the Beijing AIDS A ction Health Educa explained, “T he action tcxik place to combat tion Institute with the city’s Industry and C om problems like alcoholism, robbery and the pres merce Bureau in mid-October. , ence of homosexuals and transvestites that have He was released from jail Sept. 20 after been observed in the city’s central square and admitting he’d made a “mistake.” He had been that affect the inhabitants of Merida and the taken into custody Aug. 24 for widely e-mailing tourists who visit the city.” a leaked government report on thousands of Also late last m onth, the City Council in farmers in the Henan province who were infect Tecate, Baja California, passed a law punishing ed with HIV while selling their blood to unsan "men who dress as women and move around itary, governm ent-sanctioned collectors be public places, causing perturbation” with arrest, tween the late 1980s and mid-1990s. incarceration and a fine equal to 40 days’ salary Wan says up to 2 million people might have at the minimum wage. Mexico’s daily minimum been infected in similar circumstances. “I admit wage— daily, not hourly— is about $3.80. ted wrongdoing and I asked the government for "We want this law scrapped,” said Tijuana gay leniency, so that is why I think they let me go,” he told the French Press Agency. leader Alejandro García, who helped organize a protest march Nov. 12. “We have to fight this or we’ll see similar laws in Baja California’s other R ELG IU M cities— Ensenada, Mexicali, Tijuana and Rosarito.” committee of Belgium’s Senate voted 11-4 O ct. 23 to open regular marriage to same- T he city, population 77,000, is located 45 miles southeast of San Diego. Tecate beer is sex couples. The Netherlands is the only nation where brewed there. gay couples can marry under the same laws as straight people. Numerous European nations T ) o lic e in Aguascalientes continue to menace have gay partnership laws granting nearly every right of marriage. gays, trans people and sex workers, activists G reen Sen. 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