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“I believe our inmates that
1 know of are all heterosex
ual people, and I haven’t
heard of any same-sex rela
tions to date, so if we did
see any, condoms could he
readily available,” Premier
Paul Okalik said.
AIDS activists re
sponded by pointing out
that Nunavut likely does
have gay prisoners and
that straight men often
have sex with each other Paul Okalik
in gender-segregated envi
ronments. N unavut was created in a split from
the Northwest Territories in 1999.
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'I ay tourism to Am sterdam has
1 dropped at least 35 percent in the
past five years because the city has become
too bourgeois, square, frumpy, orderly and
calm, Gay Business Am sterdam said
Nov. 24. T he group told the French Press
Agency that visitors now prefer Berlin,
London, Paris and Barcelona, Spain.
Tourist officials need to go beyond pro
moting tulips and windmills if they want
gay people to return, spokesman Siep de
Haan said. “They should try to present more
of the sex, drugs and rock ’n ’ roll image.”
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espite having done so as a regional arch
bishop, the incoming Archbishop of C an
terbury no longer will ordain sexually active gay
people, according to the Church Times. Anglican
Church policy prohibits such ordinations, and
Rowan Williams has faced aggressive criticism
for his previous actions since being selected.
“T he church has made its views clear on this,”
he said Nov. 28. “I don’t think I would [ordain] at
the moment. It is never at the end of the day the
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vote is expected shortly on a gay partner
ship bill in Colombia’s Senate.
Several prominent politicians and conserva
tive public figures, including former President
Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala, have denounced the
measure. A full-page ad in the daily El Espectador
newspaper said passage of the bill would increase
the number of AIDS
cases by condoning
unnatural homosexual
coupling and lead to
the downfall of society,
as in ancient Rome.
“The ad was so pre
posterous... that
the
general reaction among
the public...and jour
nalists has been very
Nuevo Proyecto de Ley cursa
supportive” of the bill,
said Andres Duquc, a
en el Senado contra la familia,
New Yorker who hails
el matrimonio y la naturaleza humana.
from Colombia and is
assisting activists there.
“I’ve tried to get sup A full-page ad in the daily El Espectador newspaper denounced
porting
statem ents Colombia’s gay partnership bill
from Colombian stars
sole decision of the bishop.... It becomes a mat
such as Shakira, Juanes and Carlos Vives, but
ter not just of my personal view but for the dis
their managers are telling them to stay mum.”
cernment of the church, [but] I would like the
church not to stop thinking about the question.”
wo lesbians jailed in separate Colombian
prisons were granted conjugal visitation
rights Nov. 21 in Manizales.
l ritain’s Crown Prosecution Service an
B
I nounced Nov. 28 that it will begin aggres
Marta Alvarez had been fighting for visits
sive prosecution of homophobic and trans-
with her lover since 1998. In his ruling, a local
phobic crimes. These are “particularly serious
judge said not letting the women visit each
because they are motivated by prejudice, dis
other violated their rights to equality, privacy
crimination and hate and undermine people’s
and free development of their personalities,
right to feel safe in their sexual orientation and
according to the International Gay & Lesbian
gender,” the agency said.
Human Rights Commission.
The crimes are defined as “any incident which
is perceived to be homophobic or transphobic by
T H E N E TH E R L A N D S
he man accused of killing Dutch gay politi the victim or any other person.” A recent British
survey found that 38 percent of sexual minority
cian Pirn Fortuyn confessed Nov. 23.
people experienced at least one homophobic
Volkert van der Graaf, an anim al rights
incident in the previous 12 months.
activist, told police Fortuyn was a m enace to
society because o f his a n ti-im m ig ra tio n
B E L G IU M
stance and prejudice against Muslims, who
elgium’s Senate approved what news agen
Fortuyn believed have n o t integrated into
cies called “gay marriage” Nov. 27 by a vote
D utch society. Fortuyn, w ho m ight have had
of 46-15 with four abstentions. The bill now
enough support to become prim e minister,
moves to the lower house.
headed the new party Pirn Fortuyn’s List,
The legislation reportedly does not include
which snagged 26 o f Parliam ent’s 150 seats
adoption
rights or joint parental rights, making
nine days after the May 6 assassination, com
Belgium’s proposal similar to the registered part
ing in second behind the C hristian D em o
nership
and civil union laws that have been
crats, who won 43 seats.
enacted in numerous European nations. Only
In addition to stemming immigration, the
the Netherlands lets gay people— including for
party stood for a crackdown on crime and
increased attention to problem areas such as eign residents— get married under the same laws
as opposite-sex couples. JH
hospital waiting lists, train delays and education
funding. The List joined a three-way center-
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
right governing coalition, but the parties proved
unable to work together and the Cabinet fell in for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's
degree m journalism from Drake University and
October, becoming the shortest-lived Dutch
started his career as a radio reporter.
government in 50 years.
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