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Democratic U .S . Reps. Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas (left) and Loretta Sanchez of California
are urging repeal of a customs policy under which a married Canadian gay couple were refused
entry to the United States
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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was withdrawn because Lesfest organizers failed to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.
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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.