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Picketed by Activists Australia: Alleged HIV Transmitter Jailed for 10 Years Dutch Blood Banks Can Ban Gay Men |
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By Rex Wockner
International News Report Israeli Education Ministry Picketed by Activists
Gays and lesbians picketed Israel's Education Ministry December 16
after officials banned the Lesbian Feminist Community, or CLaF,
from staffing a booth at the ministry's annual education fair.
At one point, several protesters burst in on a speech by First Lady Rheuma Weizmann, waving signs and balloons and shouting that homosexuals deserve equal rights. The chair of the ministry's Pedagogical Secretariat, Ozer Schiller, banned CLaF from the fair because the ministry "gives precedence to families who give birth to children." This year's event was titled "The Right to Respect and the Obligation to Respect." E-mail Minister of Education Yitzhak Levy: sar@education.gov.il, sgan-sar@education.gov.il, and dover@education.gov.il. Australia: Alleged HIV Transmitter Jailed for Ten Years
A 30-year-old man in Perth, Western Australia, has been sentenced to
10 years in prison for allegedly transmitting HIV to a
teen-age boy he had sex with in a railway-station toilet several
times in 1995 and 1996.
The boy, who was age 12-14 at the time, testified that the man, Dwayne Ian Rowland, was the only person with whom he ever engaged in anal sex. Rowland did not routinely use a condom even though he was aware of his HIV status. Dutch Blood Banks Can Ban Gay Men
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