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| Compiled By Jack Nichols
21st Century Sex Education?
A gay sex education project which encourages children as young as 14 to act
out sadomasochistic roles in the classroom provoked a storm of criticism
today.
The project offers role-plays for students, including a married man cruising for gay sex, a transvestite cabaret artist, a bisexual granny, a sado-masochist and a wheelchair-bound lesbian. The package, entitled More Than A Phase, is aimed at 14 to 16-year-olds and was produced for Avon Health Authority at a cost of £9,000. Conservative health spokesman Dr Liam Fox criticised the project as a waste of public money. Paul Griffin—" MP blasts gay sex project for schools"-- London Evening Standard, November 12 Baby-Mess is Next to Godliness
We'd wanted to have a baby. We'd been talking about this for a year and a
half and we go back and forth. Right now, we don't. At that time, we did.
Now, I don't know if I want to change my life that much. We're so spoiled.
I like to walk out of the house and go to a movie without having to load up bottles
and diapers. But I see a baby and I just want to cry. I think babies are the most.
It touches me so much to see a new life that's so full of hope and innocence
and purity. It's the closest thing to God there is.
Ellen DeGeneres—"DeGeneres returns to stand up for 'Stars'—San Francsico Examiner, November 11 A Transsexual's Teenager I spent my teenage years trying out different ways of being a woman – and so did my dad. Noelle Howey—"Studying Womanhood"—Ms. Magazine, October/ November 
A Scotsman's Reply to Cardinal Thomas Winning
The cardinal should be worrying about the number of his own priests who have been accused of child abuse and sexual misdemeanours over the years before suggesting that all gay people are out to harm and corrupt. Tim Hopkins—Edinburgh University Computer Science Lecturer and Equality Network official, in a reply to the bigoted Roman Catholic Scottish Cardinal Thomas Winning's meddlesome threats. The Godmother is still The Godfather Gangland thug William Wotherspoon has long blond hair, wears a dress and wants to be a woman…(Wotherspoon) has taken to wearing dresses and has asked to be known as Lisa Ann Docherty after claiming he wants to undergo a sex change operation. Wotherspoon, 29, who is currently serving 18 months in Barlinnie Prison for an axe attack, appeared in court yesterday for a breach of a community service order imposed after he was convicted of two charges of driving while disqualified. Daily Record and Sunday Mail—November 13, Glasgow, Scotland Australia's High Court Judge Attacks Catholic Church
Speaking to Canberra psychiatrists this week, Kirby said recent church persecution of nuns and priests working with the gay and lesbian community was "profoundly hurtful and very saddening." "It appears difficult to defend objectively the intrinsic evil of the pain which organised religion has caused and continues to cause to homosexual people in all parts of the world. One waits for the apologies," he said. Ron Bell-- Melbourne Star Observer (GLBT) newspaper, Australia, November 12 Keyes' Address to his Keister Homosexuality is an abomination ... the comparison between race and homosexuality is absurd. Alan Keyes—Republican Presidential candidate—Boston Globe, November 12 President Mugabe Suffered? But well, I know that the President actually suffered. It must have been a terrible shock to have this thing happen and I understand his reaction, but it would be unfortunate to suggest that the British government is actually involved in this kind of tactic to achieve a political objective. We want to have warm and friendly relations with Zimbabwe. Peter Longworth—British High Commissioner in Harare, Zimbabwe replying to President Mugabe's accusation that the British government was to blame when he was confronted by gays in London —Financial Gazette, November 11 President Mugabe's Accusations
Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, who recently hit out at Tony Blair's
"gangster regime", let fly again today, saying that the Labour Government
was worse than the Tories.
Mr. Mugabe claimed that under Mr. Blair's premiership Britain was no longer a pacemaker, the Government was less mature – and the Cabinet contained several gays. The outspoken - not to say extraordinary – outburst appeared to show that Mr. Mugabe is still smarting from his last visit to London, when his car was besieged and he was manhandled by protesters from the gay rights group, Outrage, led by Peter Tatchell. Mr. Mugabe went home complaining that Mr. Blair headed a gangster regime, adding: "They even used gangster gays on us." Charles Reiss—" Mugabe attacks New Labour Britain"-- London Evening Standard, November 12 All Same-Sex Love Affairs are Perfect There's a tangible taboo against examining any kind of problem in gay and lesbian relationships, out of the real fear that someone like Falwell will grab on to it as another reason gay and lesbian relationships aren't healthy. Peter Sawires—coordinator of the Family Violence Prevention Fund's National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence—The Advocate, November 23 |
Justice Kirby 
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