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Human Rights Watch denounced the measure.
“There is no excuse for playing politics with
families’ welfare,” said Boris Dittrich, advocacy
director of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Rights
Program. “These proposals not only deliberately
discriminate against same-sex couples but threaten
their families, including children. It is an insult to
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discrimination.”
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Lesbians must be allowed to buy dogs,
a Stockholm appeals court affirmed Feb. 11.
A kennel owner in the Stockholm suburb of Human rights advocate Boris Dittrich
Varmdo, Anette Sjoholm, had refused to sell a
puppy to a lesbian, Smila Bergstrom, because she
had read that transvestites are involved in animal
pornography
homosexuals
and
she
that
believed
untrustworthy.
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denounced Romania's consideration to ban
same-sex marriage.
Newton-John, 59, said the appearance is
made
payback for four decades of support from gay
court
people.
unanimously rejected her defense, as did a lower
“The gay community has always been a major
district court, according to a report in the
supporter of mine, and I am hopelessly devoted to
Stockholm publication The Local.
Sjoholm must pay Bergstrom $3,085 in damages
each and every one of them,” she said. “1 can’t wait.”
for discrimination and harassment and must
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Eight Men Jailed in Egypt
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reimburse $6,940 to the state Ombudsman
Against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual
Orientation for its legal expenses.
Israel OKs Gay Adoption
Israel’s Justice Ministry announced Feb. 10 that
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Human Rights Watch highlighted Feb. 5 the
cases of eight men incarcerated in Cairo, Egypt,
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Two men were arrested last October while
having an argument on the street, after one of
same-sex couples can adopt children.
them told police officers he was HIV-positive.
“When it is for the good of the adopted child, if
is possible to agree to requests from same-sex
They were handcuffed to a desk for four days in the
couples to adopt a child who is not the child of
to anal probes and forced HIV testing, reportedly
one of the partners,” the ministry announced on
tested positive and remain in custody in a hospital
behalf of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz.
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Two other men were arrested because their
move, saying: “There is no reason why same-sex
phone numbers or photographs were in the
couples who meet the criteria for adoption should
possession of the first two men. They also were
not be able to join the process of adoption and of
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Four
additional
men
were
arrested
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Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers denounced the
November after they secured a lease and moved
decision, saying it will lead to children being
into the apartment of one of the first four men.
placed in an unnatural environment.
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January, the four were convicted of “habitual
practice of debauchery” and sentenced to one year
in prison. The convictions were upheld on appeal
Feb. 2.
One of the men was told he is HIV-positive
and is incarcerated in a hospital chained to a bed
23 hours a day.
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“These cases show Egyptian police acting on
Scott Long, director of Human Rights Watch’s
LGBT Rights Program. “HIV tests forcibly taken
without consent, ill treatment in detention, trials
driven by prejudice, and convictions without
evidence all violate international law.”
Human Rights Watch has urged authorities to
drop all charges, stop chaining detainees to
hospital beds and make sure the eight men receive
good medical care for any serious health
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Olivia Newton-Jonn says she is hopelessly
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R ex WOCKNER 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
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