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Vol 1. No 6. March, 1998
QUEER REPORT
Wockner News
The Sicilian gay man who torched himself in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square Jan. 13 has died of his burns. Alfredo Ormando, 40, set himself alight then rushed toward the entrance to the basilica.Documents found in his nearby coat said he was protesting society's and his family's failure to understand homosexuals.
British Columbia's groundbreaking law giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights and obligations as heterosexuals in the areas of child support, custody and access took effect Feb. 4; Christian preachers and 50 of their supporters marched through downtown Nassau, Bahamas, Feb. 3 to protest a planned stop by a gay cruise at a private island owned by Norwegian Cruise Line; Two unnamed European men have become the first gays to receive aid from the Swiss Fund for Needy Victims of the Holocaust.
Marriage law and the month-old "Registration of Partnership" law are now virtually identical in The Netherlands.The government said Feb. 6 it is removing the only clause that made the two laws significantly different: Registered partners will now be permitted to adopt children.
Eighty-two gay men, 42 transvestites and six lesbians were murdered last year in Brazil because of their sexuality, according to a new report from Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB), which states homosexuals are the most hated of all minorities there.
"[According to] a survey carried out by DataFolha and Agencia do Estado: of all social minorities in Brazil, homosexuals are the main victims of prejudice and discrimination, more hated than blacks, Jews, women, indigenous or elderly people. Homosexuals are insulted and assaulted by strangers and relatives, thrown out of their homes, beaten by the police, rejected by churches and by the military," GGB said.
A gay shepherd in Africo Nuovo, Italy, was tortured and left for dead by the Ndragheta Calabrian Mafia Jan. 30, police said; British foreign-intelligence service MI6 has sent its first gay couple off on a spy mission; Gay groups and trade unions are staging The 1998 International Conference on Trade Unions, Homosexuality and Work in Amsterdam this summer prior to the Gay Games; Thirty-eight thousand people marched through Melbourne, Australia' s, St. Kilda area Feb. 1 in the city's third annual Pride March.
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