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harges against the man who stabbed and
seriously wound
ed gay Paris Mayor
Bertrand Delanoe in
O ctober 2002 were
dismissed Jan. 11.
Judge Nathalie Fryd-
man said Azedine
Berkane is not men
tally fit to stand trial
and ordered that he he
sent to a psychiatric
hospital.
Berkane stabbed
Delanoe during an all-
night party at City Azedine Berkane will
Hall because he dis be sent to a psychiatric
likes homosexuals and hospital for stabbing
politicians, he said. gay Paris Mayor
Delanoe spent two Bertrand Delanoe
weeks in the hospital
and underwent surgery to repair internal organs.
udith Silherfeld, associate editor of the French
gay magazine Têtu, faces charges of abusing a
member of the government for reporting that
anti-gay Deputy Families Minister Christian
Jacob has spent “a lot of time studying the media
and television, the mnning of which he under
stand very little about.”
The magazine’s December 2002 Web report
was quoting an e-mail that appeared to have come
from Jacob’s office hut was in fact fake. Têtu quick
ly published a retraction, hut Jacob pursued legal
action anyway, alleging defamation.
The magistrate who summoned Silherfeld
said she had used “expressions suggesting that
the deputy minister for the family did not have
the intelligence that should he expected for
someone in his position.” The current issue of
Têtu accuses Jacob of waging a personal vendet
ta against Silherfeld.
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CANADA
he Supreme Court of British Columbia
ruled Dec. 19 that Vancouver Rape Relief
and W om en’s Shelter did not discriminate
against Kimberly Nixon by refusing to let her
volunteer because she used to he a man. She
previously had won a $5,767 payout courtesy of
the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, with which
she had filed a complaint.
The Supreme C ourt, however, ruled on
appeal that Rape Relief, a private organization,
may define “woman” as it sees fit even though
British Columbia considers Nixon female and has
given her female identification documents. She
may appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
TAIWAN
Life is e a sie r w ith a little o rg a n iz a tio n , w h e th e r in y o u r kitc h e n or
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ple don’t know very much about homosexuals
and where there is considerable discrimination
against homosexuals, so to get a fair trial, I
would like to ask heterosexual judges to avoid
the case," he told the Times.
Lai’s petition to the court also requested that
the confiscated magazines he reviewed by 100
homosexuals to see if they consider the contents
indecent. “The definition of indecency may vary
from person to person, and a homosexual male’s
perception of indecency cannot he arbitrated by a
heterosexual male," he said.
aipei police raided a “gay orgy" at a private
apartment Jan. 17 and detained 92 men for
alleged illegal drug use, The China Post reported.
Police said that the men were wearing only
underwear and that the floor was littered with
condoms and tissues. Hundreds of ecstasy pills
were confiscated, they said. The party reported
ly was open only to “well-built men” who paid
$7.42 each to attend.
T he detainees were subsequently force-
tested for sexually transm itted diseases. A
total of 28 tested HIV-positive and 46 had
syphilis, reported The China Times and The
United Daily News.
Only 14 of the HIV carriers were listed on the
government’s official rally of people with HIV.
“Half of the participants in the home party
are infected with HIV or other sexually trans
mitted disease," Ling Ding, deputy director of
Taiwan’s C enter for Disease Control, told the
German Press Agency wire service. “This fully
shows the danger of attending such parties.”
The 64 partiers who tested HIV-negative will
he forcibly retested in April to make sure they
did not become infected during the party, Health
Minister C hen Chien-jen told E l l V, a cable
news channel. Knowing transmission of HIV
carries a seven-year prison sentence in Taiwan.
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he Taipei gay bookstore Gin G in’s has
requested that a gay judge hear its case result
ing from a police raid last August, The Taipei Times
reported Jan. 14. Police nabbed more than 500
gay sex magazines, including the Taiwanese title
His and several publications from Hong Kong.
Owner Lai Jeng-jer was charged with offens
es against morals. “Taiwan is a place where peo-
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A court in British Columbia has ruled against
Kimberly Nixon, who sued a wom en’s shelter
for gender identity discrimination
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he Justice Department said Jan. 19 it will
appeal a recent ruling in a class-action law
suit that granted gay men and lesbians expand
ed access to Canada Pension Plan benefits.
W hen the federal government extended
numerous spousal benefits to same-sex couples
in 2000, it chose Jan. 1, 1998, as the date for
retroactive access to pensions. The class-action
mling rolled that date hack to April 17, 1985—
the day equality guarantees ta lk effect in C ana
das Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The extension increased the number of gay
men and lesbians eligible for benefits by approx
imately 1,500, at an estimated cost to the gov
ernm ent of $307 million. According to Toron
to’s Globe and Mail newspaper, the government
believes providing benefits retroactive to 1998
was already quite generous.
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he Vital Statistics Agency in British
Columbia ordered the provinces marriage
commissioners Jan. 14 to start performing wed
dings for same-sex couples or resign by
March 31.
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