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18 J"** «Mit • lanuary 3. 2003 I’l U i n i i n e w s Why Categorize it. Just enjoy it CANADA olice raided a gay bathhouse Dec. 12 in C al gary, Alberta. Two employees of G oliath s Sauna and Texas Lounge were charged with keeping a common bawdy house, and 1 3 patrons were charged with being found without lawful excuse in a common bawdy house. T he police department alleged that cus tomers paid to rent a rixim and were given a towel and a condom. Activists were scratching their heads because that is what happens in a gay bathhouse and is more or less how G oliath’s has operated for 35 years. “T he bawdy house charges are ludicrous," Stephen Lock, co-founder of the gay/police liai son committee, told the Calgary Herald. “It’s not illegal to have gay sex in Canada.” G oliath’s spokesman Keith Purdy said: “T he gay community is outraged to no end. I’ve never seen the gay community like this before. People arc furious. T he whole community is in shock. 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T h e 27-year-old will alter her legal name from the masculine Lee in question were Asha’s Mums, Belinda’s Bou Kyong-yop to the feminine Lee Kyong-eun. quet and One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dads, T h e court declared, “G insidering that Ha Blue Dads. has been socially recognized as female after her In a 7-2 ruling, the court said sch(x>ls in the transgender operation, it is appropriate that we province are secular institutions and cannot base regard Ha physically as a woman.” T h e court decisions tin parents’ religious concerns. T he noted that the Korean Constitution guarantees hoard “failed to consider the curriculum’s goal individual pursuit of happiness and dignity, the that children at the K-l level he able to discuss their family mtxJels and that all children he made Korea Times reported. aware of the diversity of family models in our A R G E N T IN A stKiety,” C hief Justice Beverley M cLachlin said. he Buenos Aires City Giuncii passed a civil unions law Dec. 13 by a vote of 29-10. Regis tered opposite- and same-sex couples will he treat anada’s gay cable network, PrideVision, ed like spouses “in the exercise of rights, obligations announced more staff cuts Dec. 20 and put and benefits that emanate from the city,” including itself up for sale. pensions, insurance, loans, sick and bereavement A ccording to parent company Headline leave, visitation rights and relocation expenses. M edia G roup, the pay ch an n el has not attracted enough sub “Buenos Aires has scribers. “Despite this become the first city in ch allen g e, H eadline Latin A m erica to pass continues to believe in such a law, and we hope it th e viability o f this is only a first step,” City one-of-a-kind network, C ou ncilor Roque Bel- both in C anada and lomo said. To register, a abroad,” chairm an’and couple must he in a “sta C E O John Levy said. ble, public relationship of affectivity” for at least two -5- years (unless they have children together) and ember of Parlia- must live in Buenos Aires I V I ment Scott Brison for two years. revealed he is gay Dec. 7 to keep from being T he Argentine prov outed as he seeks the ince of Rio Negro passed federal Tory leadership a gay partnership law post. T h e 35-year-old Dec. 17. It grants same- represents Nova Scotia’s sex couples all the provin cial rights that common- Kings-Hants district, a law opposite-sex couples conservative, rural rid have, except for access to ing in the Annapolis Valley. marriage and adoption. To register, a couple must “As one who has G overn m en t officials have O K ’d Sou th present two witnesses never really been in the K orean celebrity H a risu ’s request to who can prove they have closet, it doesn’t seem change her nam e and gender I C I s u p p o rt GALA c h o r u s e s ! s f ir s t time. (They just bought their first home.) Buying your first home can be as nervevvracking as it is exciting. At Rose City you'll find a com fortable, gay-friendly, non-judgmental atm osphere. We do everything we can to make the loan process less stressful for all buyers. 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