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A U S T R A L IA he Civil and Administrative Appeals Tri bunal in the state of Victoria has revoked an exemption it granted to Lesfest 2004 that would have allowed the weeklong January event to ban attendees and service providers who are not female-horn lesbians. The exemption from state human rights laws was withdrawn because Lesfest organizers failed to inform the tribunal that a transsexual organization had objected to the waiver, the Australian Associ ated Press reported Sept. 30. T he Australian W OM AN Network had complained that the exemption was offensive because male-to-female transsexuals are legally and medically women. Lesfest spokeswoman Anna Holland-Moore expressed disappointment at the new niling. “We just wanted a week together to consolidate our culture and discuss relevant issues,” she told A A R T he rural festival will feature political fonims, art pertonnances, healing space, workshops and talking circles. Boys older than 8 and heterosex ual girls older than 15 also were to he banned. T IN D O N E S IA ndonesia’s Justice Ministry has drafted laws to ban premarital sex, extramarital sex, living together without being married, reneging on a promise to marry, visiting a prostitute, perform ing as a stripper, witchcraft and promotion of communism, local media reported Sept. 30. Although the proposed legislation reportedly would allow gay sex between adults, it was unclear why that would not he considered pre marital or extramarital. The proposed new crimes would draw penalties of two to 20 years in prison. Indonesian Bar Association chairman Gayus Lumbuun told a newspaper, “Not all ethical and moral offenses are crimes.” T h e Indonesian Liwyers Association also opposes the proposals. Some Muslim groups and political parties have been pushing for the incorporation of Islamic law into legal codes. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. T he 600 pages of proposals face at least a year of discussion in Parliament before they could become law, according to a report in The Sydney Morning Herald. I AND JUST ONE PAIR OF GLASSES? Lagle ELye O ptical EYE EXAMS PRESCRIPTION EYEWEAR GLASSES & CONTACTS 2808 N EM LK Jr Blvd, Suite C Portland. OR 9 7 2 12 Located next to Billy Reed’s Restaurant 503.335.7173 LO O www.eagleeyeopticalshop.com CANADA our members of the U.S. House of Represen tatives with responsibility for overseeing immigration policy wrote to the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protec tion on Oct. 1 urging repeal of the policy under which a married (Canadian gay couple were refused entry to the United States when they insisted on filling out a single form designed for families. Kevin Bourassa and Joe Vamell were turned hack Sept. 18 at the Toronto airport, where the Homeland Security Department clears U .S.- bound passengers in order to avoid operating customs and immigration facilities in smaller U .S. cities where the only international flights arrive from Canada. T h e couple got married this summer in O ntario after full same-sex marriage was legalized by court order. U .S. officials said the two men were legally single and needed to fill out separate forms. In the letter to Commissioner Robert Bon ner, Democratic U .S. Reps. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas, Jer- rold Nadler of New York and Loretta Sanchez of California said: “W e do not understand why it should he American policy to insist that people seeking to enter our country as tourists from another country repudiate their own country’s mles and engage in what are to them wholly inaccurate self-descriptions, and in a way that they understandably found to he degrading. Forcing people to deny their own important val ues, when this has no legal hearing in the U .S., serves no public purpose, and whatever its m oti vation, becomes a form of meanness— inflicting emotional pain on people for no reason other than to express our official disapproval of them." Jackson-Lee is the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immi gration, Border Security and Claims. Sanchez is the senior F)emcx:mt on the Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Infrastructure and Border Security. Nadler is the senior Democrat on the Judiciary Com mittee’s Subcommittee on the Gmstitution. Frank, who is gay, is the senior Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. he Film Review Board in the province (if Ontario has O K ’d movie depictions of vagi nal “fisting” hut has declared anal fisting off-limits, Toronto’s Xtra! reported Sept. 18. Scenes of vaginal fisting will he tolerated if the participants appear to he enjoying themselves and are not pregnant, hut scenes of anal fisting will not he permitted even if the participants look like they’re having fun. Review board chairman Bill Mtxxly said the Ontario Medical Association told the hoard that anal fisting is dangerous, “lr becomes phys ical abuse when the medical people tell us that it’s abuse.” T h e hoard also considered banning rimming scenes hut ultimately decided, “W e’re not germ police," MixxJy said. T R U S S IA ussia’s first gay wedding has upset religious officials. l\'nis Gogolev, 27, and Mikhail Morozov, 23, paid a Russian OrthcxJox priest $450 to marry them Sept. 1 in the city of Nizh ny Novgonxl.
