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WINDY CITY TIMES
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World News: Mardi Gras Rescued
by REX WOCKNER 2002-10-23
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This article shared 2821 times since Wed Oct 23, 2002
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Sydney, Australia's bankrupt and cancelled Mardi Gras
celebration has been rescued and will continue. Four gay groups
took over the organization that produced the huge, famous gay
extravaganza and will sell its assets to pay off debt.
Volunteers will do what paid staff used to.
The new owners of the blowout are the AIDS Council of New
South Wales, the Sydney Pride Center, the Gay and Lesbian
Rights Lobby and Queer Screen.
GAY HEALTH
CENTER TORCHED
Arsonists torched the Gay Men's Health Center in Edinburgh,
Scotland, Sept. 30
Firefighters doused the flames quickly but patient records and
computers were destroyed and there was extensive smoke and
water damage.
"The whole room looks like a volcano has erupted," said Bruce
Fraser, the center's chief executive.
GAYS PICKET
MUSIC AWARDS
Gays picketed London's Music of Black Origin Awards Oct. 1
because Best Reggae Act nominees Capelton, Elephant Man
and TOK have recorded songs that urge that homosexuals be
shot, burned or beaten to death.
None of the three won.
The protesters, from the group OutRage!, said they were
attacked by a "screaming, homophobic mob" of teenage reggae
fans.
"Yelling 'Kill the batty boy' and 'Kill chi chi men' [Jamaican for
'faggots'], 25 mostly black teenage music fans kicked, punched,
spat on and hurled beer cans, coins and cigarette lighters at gay
human-rights campaigner Peter Tatchell after he held up a
placard with the words 'MOBO rewards anti-gay hate,'"
OutRage reported in a press release.
Fearing for their safety, the protesters abandoned their
demonstration and were escorted away by police, they said.
"The collective homophobic hysteria was absolutely terrifying,"
Tatchell said. "It was like what white racists did to the black civil
rights marchers in the Deep South during the 1960s. For a
moment, I was in fear of my life. The hatred in those young
people's eyes was frightening. Some of them looked like they
would kill me if they had the chance."
TEL AVIV
EXTENDS RIGHTS
Tel Aviv, Israel, extended various spousal benefits to gay
couples Oct. 3, the daily newspaper Ha'aretz reported.
Same-sex couples will have access to discounts and benefits at
cultural facilities, libraries, swimming pools and city events, the
newspaper said.
"The municipality will treat couples known to the public,
including single-sex couples, as couples in every sense, and will
confer to them the same discounts and benefits in public services
which are provided to married couples," the new regulations
state.
The benefits are available to couples who live together and
submit an affidavit of their relationship.
COPS DENOUNCE PANIC DEFENSE
The Canadian Association of Police Boards is supporting a
resolution calling for elimination of the homosexual-panic
defense, in which an anti-gay attacker is acquitted or receives a
lesser sentence after claiming the person he attacked made a
pass at him.
The police boards also have called for gays to be added to the
list of groups protected from hate speech and propaganda,
according to a report in Vancouver's Xtra! West.
A bill on that matter is pending in Parliament.
"What we are trying to do is get people to stop making remarks
about homosexuals," said Vancouver Police Inspector Dave
Jones, who authored the panic-defense resolution and is
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