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National Board of Health’s Jan Fouchard. “At the
same time, those infected are no longer sickly or
wan, so they don’t have the same shock effect.”
ASIA/PACIFIC
M arried A ussie MP to Q uit
A fter G ay S ex R evelations
A Liberal member of the Parliament of the
state of South Australia will not run for office
again after it was revealed he had an affair with
a 24-year-old man that included sex in the
MP’s office.
Announcing his decision, Mark Brindal, 57,
who is married to a woman, also threatened to
reveal other MPs’ secrets.
“If my personal life has been fair game, 1 real
ly don’t see why anybody else’s shouldn’t be,” he
told the Australian Associated Press. “The
House [of Assembly] had better watch its
hypcxzrisy in rhe months ahead. If 1 get one hint
of hypocrisy from anyone in that place in the
next seven months... 1 might just tell the truth
about other things.”
The affair came to light after Brindal told
police he was being blackmailed. Despite its
Among Australian Christians, Roman
Catholics are the least homophobic, a new
Australia Institute study has found.
Two-thirds of Baptists and evangelical
Christians told pollsters homosexuality is
immoral, compared with only one-third of
Catholics. Members of the Anglican and
Uniting churches scored similarly gay-friendly.
Nonreligious people were the least anti-gay
of all, with only 19 percent calling homosexual
ity immoral.
The survey, which questioned 25,000 people,
revealed that residents of central and southwest
ern Queensland state, western Tasmania and the
Sunshine and Gold coasts near Brisbane are the
least tolerant. The gay-friendliest areas are the
urban cores of Melbourne and Perth.
Other findings included: Overall, 35 percent
of Australians consider gay sex immoral. Older
people and less-educated people are more homo-
phobic than younger people and people who
spent more time in school. Women are less anti-
gay than men. Boys between ages 14 and 17 are
more homophobic (43 percent) than girls of the
same age (23 percent). The teen-age boys also
are more homophobic than young and middle-
aged adults in general.
MIDEAST/AFRIC A
Q atari C rown P rince A llegedly
B anned from N ightclub
Qatar’s heir apparent, Sheikh Tamim Bin
Hamad Al-Thani, and two other Qataris were
banned from Londons G.A.Y. nightclub for a
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A mnesty : U ganda T argets
G ay A ctivists
Amnesty International said Aug. 2 that it is
worried about gay activists in Uganda after the
nation’s recent passage of a constitutional
amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The organization said activist Victor Juliet
Mukasa, chairwoman of Sexual Minorities
Uganda, fears for her safety after her house in a
Kampala suburb was raided July 20.
Without displaying a search war
rant, local officials seized documents
and other material. Another lesbian
activist who was present during the
raid was arrested and taken to a police
station where “she was subjected to
humiliating and degrading treat
ment” and then released, Amnesty
said.
“Amnesty International is con
cerned that the above incidents add
to a pattern of abuse of their right not
to be discriminated against on the
basis of sexual orientation, the right
to freedom, security and inviolability
Accused of being gay and drunk, the crown prince of Qatar of the human person, respect for pri
(right) tarnished his reputation in a London nightclub.
vate life, protection of privacy of the
home and freedom of association and
name, the Liberal Party of Australia falls right of expression,” the group said.
center on the political spectrum.
A ussie S tudy : C atholics A re
the L east H omophobic C hristians
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month because of drunk and disorderly behavior,
Aljazeera.com claimed July 31.
The report quoted another Web site,
IslsmOnline.net, as saying that Tamim, 25, and
the other two individuals got into a physical
fight with local youths. It said Tamim and his
“partner” were not charged in rhe incident.
The article that Aljazeera.com claimed to be
quoting could not be kx:ated on IslamOnline.net
on July 31, the same day it allegedly appeared
there. The story was not reported anywhere else
and could not be confirmed.
Aljazeera.com is not connected to
Aljazeera.net, the Web site of rhe well-known
Arabic television news channel.
AMERICAS
N ew L aws T rouble
C anadian A ctivists
New federal measures concerning minors and
sex have Canadian gay and civil liberties
activists worried that classic works of gay fiction
and nonfiction, such as coming-out stories, now
may be illegal.
Recently passed Bill C-2 criminalizes writings
and recordings “whose dominant characteristic
is the description, for a sexual purpose, of sexual
activity with a person under the age of 18 years
that would be an offense under this act.”
The law exempts material that has a “legiti
mate purpose related to the administration of
justice or to science, medicine or art,” but only if
the author can prove that an undue risk of harm
is not posed to people younger than 18.
Canada’s age of consent is actually 14 except
for anal sex, for which it is 18. Thus, the new law
disproportionately affects gay art.
Bill C-2 has been denounced by the Canadian
national gay lobby group Eagle, the large gay pub
lishing company Pink Triangle Press and other
gay and civil liberties organizations.
They say its definitions are so broad and
vague as to invite abuse of authority by local
police and prosecutors, resulting in artists and
writers having to endure expensive public trials
to defend their work. Even Canada’s largest daily
newspaper, The Globe and Mail, editorialized that
C-2 has “glaring flaws” and is excessive. jn
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported for
the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
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