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December 19. 2003 • J u s t o u t 2 5 I'lU H n in e w s David Ian Harrad faced deportation to En«- land when his latest tourist visit expired. He and partner Antonio Martins dos Reis asked a court in Curitiba, 240 miles south of Sait Paulo, to hkxrk the deportation, arguing they are in a common law marriage. Federal Judge Ana Carolina Morozowski agreed, writing, “Although they are of the same sex, the authors of the petition live in a stare of matrimony, a fact which extends to Mr. Harrad the right of permanent residence.” She based her mling tin the Brazil Constitution, which prohibits “any form of discrimination, including discrimination as to sexual preference," she said. SOUTH AFRICA he Miss Gay South Africa pageant proceed ed as planned Nov. 29 despite several bomb threats, Durban's The Daily News reported. A 10 p.m. search by the Bomb Disposal Unit found no explosives. Christians for Tmth pick eted the pageant. The sold-out event tcxik place at the Kismet Hotel in Pietermaritzburg, co-capital of the KwaZulu-Natal province. Monique Perez heat out 22 other contestants to capture the crown. I FINLAND penly lesbian Finnish author Pirkko Saisio has won the nation’s top annual hœk prize, Fin landia, for her novel The Red Book About Separation. She donated her $31,584 prize to the National Organization for Sexual Equality. In the novel— part three of a semiautobiographical trilogy— Saisio describes coming out at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Finland. O Archbishop Yong Ping Chung severed ties with the U.S. Episcopal Church because the Diocese of New Hampshire consecrated an openly gay bishop INTERNATIONAL nglicans in nine Southeast Asian nations cut ties Dec. 4 with the U.S. Episcopal Church because the Diocese of New Hampshire recently consecrated an openly gay man, Gene Robinson, as bishop. Archbishop Yong Ping Chung, Anglican pri mate of Southeast Asia, said New Hampshire exhibited “a flagrant disregard of the fundamen tal teachings of the Bible and doctrines of the church.” He also declared same-sex unions unnatural and an abomination to God. Yong’s authority covers Brunei, CamkxJia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Anglican churches in several African nations also have cut or reduced ties with the U.S. church or the New Hampshire diocese. The Russian Orthodox Church also has termi nated relations with U.S. Episcopalians because of Robinson’s consecration. A FRANCE rance’s marriage-like Civil Solidarity Pacts proved popular in the first half of 2003— 15,000 couples signed up. Last year a total of 25,000 couples tied the knot. The pacts, which confer most marriage rights and obligations, are available to same- and opposite-sex couples. France enacted the part nership law in late 1999. F N o rt hw est N o rt hw est N o rth w est N o rth w est N o rth w est AUSTRALIA A ustralia’s Northern Territory, where Dar- ¿ 1 win is ltxated, voted Nov. 25 to lower the age of consent for male-male sex from 18 to 16. Parliamentary debate tin the issue lasted until 3 a.m. It was the last Australian state or territory with unequal ages of consent for straight and gay sex, although in Queensland, where Brisbane is located, gays and straights cannot engage in anal sex until age 18, while other sexual acts are legal at 16. R U S S IA ; ays are not banned from the Russian mili- 1 tary, officials said Nov. 27, according to an Interfax wire service report. “There is no such medical diagnosis as homo sexuality.... A classification of diseases adopted by the World Health Organization does not indi cate such a disease,” Maj. Gen. Valery Kulikov, chairman of the Defense Ministry’s central med ical board, told a press conference in Moscow. "The new regulations on military medical exam inations are based on international standards, and therefore homosexuals are treated on general grounds in terms of their fitness for military serv ice. If they are physically and mentally healthy, they will he recognized as fit and will serve.” Kulikov suggested, however, that gays in the military not "advertise their sexual orientation.” He warned, “They are not liked there and will just get beaten up." C CANADA conservative member of Parliament was fired as the Canadian Alliance party’s fam ily issues critic Nov. 27 after saying odd things about homosexuals. Canadian Alliance leaders said Larry Spencer’s comments did not reflect party beliefs. In an interview, he had told The Vancouver Sun: “I do believe it was a mistake to have legalized [gay sex]. If somekxiy brought a hill in the House to [recriminalize gay sex], I’d certainly vote for it.” He added that even people who have been gay for a long time, such as Canadian MP Svend Robinson, can turn straight. “I believe he could,” said Spencer, who rep resents a district in the province of Saskatchewan. “I believe he would struggle with it.... The mind or the conscience that we have can he sharpened against right or wrong. It can he desensitized to think that whatever wrong that’s around us is nothing hut natural, and we begin to accept that. “I just wish that there was some way that soci- ety could stand up and say, ‘This is not right.’ [If] anykxly that used Colgate texithpaste, their life expectancy was lowered by 10, 15 years, what do you think would hap pen to Colgate t(X)th- paste? It would he outlawed. Well, we know that’s what happens to men liv ing a gay lifestyle.” Spencer claimed there is a gay conspir acy to seduce chil dren into the so- called homosexual Member of Parliament lifestyle: "A t some of Larry Spencer wants to those [gay] conven recriminalize gay sex in tions in [the 1960s] it Canada was discussed what some of those approaches would he, and...for this group o f people to express themselves sexu ally, they’re going to have to do the reemiting an d ...it’s going to come by seduction.” jH A Com plied by R ex W i X: kner , who has reported for the gay press since 1985. 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