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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. It
was totally unexpected and totally uncalled for.”
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because they depict same-sex parents, C a n a
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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.
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noted that the Korean Constitution guarantees
hoard “failed to consider the curriculum’s goal
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that children at the K-l level he able to discuss
their family mtxJels and that all children he made
Korea Times reported.
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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
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affectivity” for at least two
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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
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outed as he seeks the
ince of Rio Negro passed
federal Tory leadership
a gay partnership law
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represents Nova Scotia’s
sex couples all the provin
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Kings-Hants district, a
law opposite-sex couples
conservative, rural rid
have, except for access to
ing in the Annapolis
Valley.
marriage and adoption.
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like a big event to
com e out,” Brison
told the Halifax
Daily News. “I t’s
the first tim e I ever
spoke to media
about it, hut it cer
tainly wasn’t a
secret.
I did n’t
want there to he
any misperception
out there th at I Scott Brison
had any fear o f
dealing with this issue openly and honestly.
(ThisJ does elim inate the ability for anybody to
participate in whisper campaigns.”
Brison said he w on’t he changing his poli
tics. “I’m a co n se rv a tiv e , entrep ren eu r,
in v estm en t-h an k in g p o liticia n from rural
Nova S co tia who drives a Volvo station
wagon and has two Nova S co tia duck-tolling
retrievers; it’s pretty hard to peg me as a radi
c a l,” he said.
Canada has
three
other
openly gay fed
eral MPs, Svcnd
Robinson and
Lihhy
Davies,
who represent
Vancouver-area
ridings,
and
Real
Menard,
who represents a Montreal riding.
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