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Swan for Minneapolis Board of Esdmate, Jim
McGill for Wilkinsburg (PA) Borough Coun
cil and Tom Roberts for Santa Barbara (CA)
City Council. The three candidates who ad
vanced to special run-off elections are Annise
Parker for Houston City Council, Malcolm
Gideons for Adanta City Council (District 1)
and Cathy Woolard for Adanta City Council
(District 6).
Gay marriage denied
CHATTANOOGA, TN—Approval of an
application for use of the Patten Chapel at the
University ofTennessee — Chattanooga (UTC)
for a wedding was withdrawn after university
officials asked the applicants to provide omit
ted information and realized the applicants were
both men. The chapel-use application named
the groom as W.S. Baker, but had the word
“Bride” crossed out with “R.G. Angle” written
beside it. Calling back to get the brides com
plete name, officials learned that Scott Bakers
“bride” was to be Robert Angle. The men now
plan to sue the university for breach of con
tract, their lawyer Jay Ku said. Because it is too
late to find another venue for the ceremony,
Ms. Ku said, her clients would seek $3000 in
damages for the cost of invitations and floral
arrangements for which the couple had paid.
Student accused of gay threat
ORONO, ME—State Attorney General
Andrew Ketterer has filed a civil lawsuit against
a University of Maine (UM) student who al
legedly sent computer messages threatening vio
lence against gays and lesbians on the Orono
campus. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunc
tion against Casey Belanger, 19, a UM sopho
more. If granted, the injunction would prohibit
Belanger from sending threatening communi
cations over the First Class campuswide com
puter network. Belanger could face criminal
prosecution if the injunction is granted and he
violates its provisions. He also faces possible fi
nancial penalties from the state and possible
disciplinary action from the university. Accord- ■
ing to the lawsuit, an epithet-strewn message
was sent in which Belanger threatened to shoot
a gay male student “in the back of the [exple
tive] head,” among other things. The message
exemplified the worst of violent threats that are
prohibited under the Maine Civil Rights Act,
according to Ketterer. The lawsuit is the first
filed in Maine that deals with a hate crime in
volving the use of a computer, according to
Assistant Attorney General Stephen Wessler.
New HIV study
WASHINGTON, DC—The federal gov
ernment is preparing to launch a six-year, $30
million international study to determine con
clusively whether the controversial immune-
based therapy called Intcrleukin-2 actually helps
HIV patients live longer. IL-2, an immune r^-
latory protein called a cytokine, has been shown
in preliminary tests to boost the number of
immune system CD4 cells. But there is no evi
dence that the immune boost created by IL-2
treatment offers actual improvement in health
— in stark contrast to anti-viral combination
drug therapy, where a CD4 increase is closely
correlated with positive clinical effects. For rea
sons that are not well understood, CD4 in
creases induced by IL-2 don’t seem to be a good
marker of future health and longevity.
International
Murderer found guilty
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—A Supreme
Court jury has found a Sydney man guilty of
murdering another man with a high powered
bow and arrow in 1994. Richard William .
Leonard, 24, pleaded not guilty to murdering
Stephen Dempsey [an openly gay man], claim
ing he shot him at Deep Creek Reserve in
Narabeen after being approached in a sexual
manner. Leonard later dismembered Dempsey’s
body, put it in his refrigerator for four months
and then dumped the body parts in Pitwatter
to Sydney’s north.
Dutch and gay adoptions
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS—
Dutch society, renowned for its tolerance of
homosexuality, is pushing for a federal law that
would permit gays and lesbians to adopt chil
dren. The legislation, which would also sanc
tion same-sex marriages, was approved in late
October by a parliamentary panel. Believed to
have broad backing in Parliament and expected
to be enacted early next year, it also gives gay
couples the same pension, inheritance and so
cial security rights as married heterosexuals. If
the current version passes, the Netherlands
would become the first country to sanction gay
adoption at the federal level. There didn’t ap
pear to be any organized opposition to the leg
islation. In feet, public opinion surveys have
shown that seven in 10 Dutch think gays can
be good parents. However, Maarten Jan Van
Mourik, a law professor at Catholic University
of Nijmegen, decried the bill as “the next step
in the abolition of marriage.”
Church okays gay marriage
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK—Bishops
of the State Lutheran Church unanimously
approved homosexual marriages recendy, but
said the church would not allow separate mar
riage ceremonies for same-sex couples. The rul
ing means that homosexual couples in Den
mark could have their marriages sealed as a part
of regular church services. The Lutheran clergy
have been deeply divided over the issue since
1989, when Denmark became the first coun
try to legalize civil marriages for homosexuals.
Gay relations in prison
KINGSTON, JAMAICA—Police officers
have told a commission of enquiry looking into
riots at Jamaica’s two main prisons that homo
sexual relations were taking place between
guards and prisoners. Sixteen inmates were
killed and 40 injured in riots between Aug. 20
and 23. All of the 16 killed were accused by
other inmates of being gay. The violence was
sparked by a suggestion by Correaions Com
missioner John Prescod that condoms should
be distributed to guards and inmates to pre
vent the spread of HIV. Guards went on strike
for three days in protest against Prescod’s state
ment, which their spokesman said had “poured
buckets of dung” on all prison guards. How
ever, two senior police officers told the com
mission that their investigation into the riots
found that homosexual relations were common
between guards and prisoners. Gay inmates re
ceived special privileges and better living con
ditions which created resentment that fueled
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