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ISSN 1446-4896
ISSUE 1, 2007 NUMBER 65 MARCH 2007 – JUNE 2007
1) AFRICAN LGBTI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS WARN PUBLIC
AGAINST participating in campaigns concerning LGBTI issues in Africa led by PETER
TATCHELL and OUTRAGE! “LGBTI groups in Africa have been troubled by
actions from Peter Tatchell and Outrage!, interfering in events about which
they have little local knowledge. As a consequence of their actions they have
placed many groups in danger, particularly in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. A document signed by
members of many groups across the African continent request activists not to
help in campaigns initiated by the UK group and Tatchell. Their
request follows after they have had to address problems, created by Outrage!
and Tatchell, of many instances of breaches of trust and disregard for the work,
wisdom, and lives of African Human Rights Defenders. We have repeatedly asked
Outrage! to retract their calls to action and to restrain from further action
regarding LGBTI issues in Africa. Outrage! has refused. As we would
do in the case of any person or organisation acting out of such blatant
disrespect for the truth, and for the people they claim to defend, we urge the
public not to participate in LGBTI campaigns led by Tatchell or Outrage! which
pertain to our continent, Africa.”
The signatories are from the following groups and
countries: INCRESE, Nigeria; Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG); Coalition of
African Lesbians (CAL) South Africa; Behind the Mask (BtM) South Africa;
Freedom and Roam Uganda (FARUG); Integrity, Uganda; Spectrum, Uganda; LGBTI
Mozambique; Minority Women in Action, Kenya; ISHTAR, Kenya; Gay and Lesbian
Coalition of Kenya (GALCK); Alternatives, Cameroon; Human Rights Defenders,
Nigeria/Senegal; Black Looks; TAGL, AfriCar Project; Centre for Popular
Education and Human Rights, Ghana; LGBTI group ARDHO, Burundi; The Rainbow
Project (TRP) Namibia; Alliance Rights, Nigeria.
For more information about the current situation in Nigeria,
please contact INCRESE: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/increse310107.html
2) IGLHRC’S NEW STUDY
REVEALS HOW ANTI-GAY DISCRIMINATION FUELS HIV/AIDS CRISIS IN AFRICA
Shocking testimony on how medical staff humiliated an
HIV positive gay patient: “He died in part, I think, because he had no place to
go.” This was a comment from the gay man’s friend
Romeo Tshuma, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, who took him to a hospital.
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) recently
published a new study, Off the Map, (1.3.07) which for the first time
reveals how African governments and the global HIV/AIDS policy and funding
community are denying basic human rights to same-sex practicing people in Africa. The report
documents some shocking examples of how lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) people are denied access to effective HIV prevention, counselling and
testing, treatment and care. For more information on this critical issue, see
IGLHRC’s web pages: http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/
3) MARDI GRAS AND THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: Ken Davis of the Pride History Group (and founding member of the Gay
Solidarity Group) sent the following letter to the Sydney Morning Herald on 5 March 2007. Needless to say, in keeping with their long-standing homophobia,
they did NOT publish the letter. Here it is: “The 30th annual gay and lesbian
Mardi Gras parade on Saturday night was wonderful, as was your article on
Saturday morning (Sydney Ready to Frock'n'Roll, SMH 3 March 2007). However,
there were a couple of inaccuracies: the 1978 arrest photo is not at the Mardi
Gras, but of an arrest outside the illegally closed Liverpool Street Courts on Monday 26 June 1978. The 24 June Saturday late-night carnival down Oxford Street
was not a "small demonstration", it had a quarter the number of
participants of last Saturday's parade. What was planned as a celebration in
1978 turned into a riot, only because of police intervention. What was
memorable also was the publication of the names, occupations and addresses of
those arrested, which led to further discrimination.”
Ken Davis, President Pride History Group, GPO
box 415, Sydney 2001.
4) THAILAND AND THE ARMY: The following item
was sent to us by one of our members, Sister Mary Mary Quite Contrary on 30 November 2006: Military stops calling gays mentally ill:
The Thai military said today it will no longer define
gays, transvestites and transsexuals as mentally ill, although it said it will
not accept any such people into the armed services.
The new
policy will list them and others as "suffering from sexual identity
problems".
"The
military does not mean to discriminate against these people or violate their
human rights but we are trying to find the words to show that they are not fit
to serve in the military,'' Maj Gen Phichai said.
About five
percent of the people who show up for registration are gay, transvestite or
transsexual, according to the military.
5) SPAIDS: Sydney City Council has confirmed that the 33rd
SPAIDS plantings will take place at Sydney Park on Sunday 29 July 2007 between 11am and 3pm. To those
who have lost loved ones to HIV/AIDS or death from violence we offer the chance
to plant a tree to commemorate their lives. And we invite those who have
planted at our earlier commemorations to do so again and see how the Groves
have developed. The plantings will mainly be back-planting in areas in the
SPAIDS Groves where there are gaps which need filling. The day is also usually
National Tree Day, and we look forward to seeing you there, rain or shine!
6) JOHN FOXALL REMEMBERED 1923-2007: Jon died on Tuesday, 3rd April, after
a brain haemorrhage the previous Friday. He leaves a sister and his partner of
thirty years, Philip. He will be remembered fondly by many of us active in the
fight for gay rights in the 70s and 80s for his appearances with his unique
placards at demos outside Parliament House in Sydney as well as in marches past St Mary’s Cathedral.
I have a photograph of him at a lunchtime Gay Solidarity picket outside the NZ
High Commission in Park Street with his special placard which read: Stop Salvation Army persecution of Gays in New
Zealand. The photo actually appeared in the 1988
International Lesbian & Gay Association 2nd ILGA Pink Book.
Mannie photographed him outside Parliament in 1993 in the garb of a churchman
of the Reformation period with his placard: ??20
Queens
Murdered by Bigots??? The gay
communities probably will never know the extent of his contribution to the
rights and responsibilities they currently enjoy.
Jon and Philip were members of GRINS news
readers team –the long-running Gay Radio Information News Service. The two of them
also produced the infamous Witches of
Enmore news sheet. Jon’s sketches and paintings were myriad. Vale, Jon Fox. –Ken L.
7) BOOKS: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, published by Bantam Press
2006
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, published 2007
Meanjin Vol.66 No.1 On Love,
Sex and Desire, published 2007
Born to be Gay by William Naphy, published by TEMPUS, 2006
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, published by Allen and
Unwin
Interventions by Noam Chomsky, published by Penguin
Convincing Ground by Bruce Pascoe, published by Aboriginal Studies
Press.
8) HOMOPHOBIA IN AFRICA CONFERENCE: The
following report is from an International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)
media release during April 2007:
“African
Lesbian and Gay activists meet in Johannesburg to
challenge State Homophobia in 38 countries on the continent.
The first
regional conference of ILGA, the International Lesbian and Gay Association, in Africa will take
place in Johannesburg May 5 - 8, 2007. It aims at
gathering a large number of activists dealing with LGBT issues in
Africa to further
progress their advancement.
On occasion
of this first Pan African conference, 60 human rights and LGBTI activists from
all corners of the African continent will gather at the Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg to discuss
ways to challenge state
homophobia,
lesbophobia and transphobia in Africa.
In 2007, no
less than 85 member states of the United Nations still criminalize consensual
same sex acts among adults, thus institutionally promoting a culture of hatred.
Amongst those, 38 are African governments.
A report on
State Homophobia in Africa will be
launched during the conference. The impressive collection of laws presented in
this report is an attempt to show the extent of State homophobia in Africa.
Although
many of the countries listed in the report do not systematically implement
those laws, their mere existence reinforces a culture where a significant
portion of the citizens need to hide from the rest of the
population
out of fear. A culture where hatred and violence are somehow justified by the
State, forces people into invisibility or into denying who they truly are.
Whether
imported by colonial empires or the result of legislations culturally shaped by
religious beliefs, if not deriving directly from a conservative interpretation
of religious texts, homophobic laws are the fruit of a certain time and context
in history.
Homophobia
is the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or
homosexuals. The hatred, hostility, or disapproval of homosexual people.”
More
information is available on http://africa.ilga.org
and www.ilga.org and reports on the conference should be
available on that web site.
9)
IRAQ CONTINUES TO
MURDER GAYS WITH US CONNIVANCE
–What the Australian media doesn’t tell us! The following report, written for
New York’s largest gay and lesbian weekly newspaper, Gay City News, is from the web pages of Doug Ireland on 3rd May 2007.
IRAQI GAY ACTIVIST ARRESTED, TORTURED--Americans Present
in Interrogation Centre where torture took place. A key Iraqi
gay activist was arrested and tortured in Baghdad on April 29, 2007, according to Ali Hili, the London-based coordinator of the
all-volunteer Iraqi LGBT group, which has a network of members and supporters
throughout Iraq. Hani, a 34-year old nurse whose last name cannot be given for security
reasons to protect him and his family, was in the Al Mansour neighbourhood of Baghdad where he lives, and
searching for a taxi when he was stopped and arrested by five policemen riding
in a police pickup truck. “Hani was in charge of communications for our Baghdad group, and he’s been a
very important part of our work in reporting and documenting the campaign of
persecution and murder targeting Iraqi LGBT people,” Ali said. “When Hani, who
is obviously gay and a bit effeminate, was stopped by the police, who demanded
his identification papers, on seeing his name one of the police said: ‘Yes,
it’s him, he’s one of them’ which is yet another piece of evidence that the
police have a hit list of some of our activists, recounted Ali. Hani was
handcuffed, blindfolded and taken to a police interrogation centre. While he
was in custody, Hani was beaten and tortured for several hours. “The police
used a screwdriver which they pounded into Hani’s legs with a hammer –sometimes
the police use electric drills for this sort of torture—and they also beat him
badly,” Ali said. “The police tried to get Hani to admit that he was a member
of our Iraqi LGBT group, but he refused to say so, which is when the torture
began,” according to Ali, adding “but Hani had his cell phone with him, and on
it he had my cell phone number, which is listed on our website, as well as the
phone numbers of a number of journalists including one from the Washington
Post. The police demanded to know why Hani had these phone numbers if he was
not a member of our organisation, and why he was in contact with journalists.
They threatened him with rape if he did not admit to it.”
While Hani
was in police custody, he heard several different voices speaking English with
American accents coming from somewhere outside the room in the detention centre
where he was being held. “Hani asked if he could speak to one of the American soldiers and
explain why he was being detained, in the hope that he might be rescued, but
the police refused to allow him access to these Americans,” Ali Hili related.
The reported presence
of Americans in a police interrogation centre while a gay activist was being
tortured underscores the indifference of Iraq’s U.S. occupier to the dire
plight of Iraqi gays and to the religiously-inspired murder campaign which has
been targeting them for the past two years.
While Hani was being interrogated, a senior police officer
arrived and demanded to know if Hani’s family was wealthy, or if they had
savings that could be used to ransom him--otherwise, he was told, he would be
killed. Hani was then allowed to make a phone call to his brother, who managed
to assemble some $2000 in U.S.
currency and gold, and in a series of phone calls was able to negotiate Hani’s
release in exchange for the money. A rendezvous was arranged, Hani’s brother
forked over the shakedown money, and an hour later Hani was released, still
blindfolded and with his hands tied behind his back. Hani is now in hiding at
the home of a doctor, from where he was able to telephone Ali and give an
account of his ordeal. “Hani is
suffering terribly from the wounds he received during his torture, but he does
not have any medication or painkillers, which are very scarce and expensive in Baghdad now,” Ali
reported. He also reported the latest documented case of the murder of an Iraqi
gay -- Maan, a 27-year-old carpenter from the town of Taji, 20 miles
north of Baghdad and the site of a large U.S.
military base. “There were many rumours in Maan’s neighbourhood that he was
having sex with other men -- he was last seen on April 21st, when a police
squad stopped him and arrested him,” Ali said. On April 25th, Maan’s corpse was
found on the side of a road -- he had been murdered execution-style,
blindfolded and with several shots to the back of his head. The arrest and torture
of Hani is only the latest in a series of attacks on the Iraqi LGBT group,
which has been targeted by the Islamist fundamentalists ever since it began
getting publicity about the murderous campaign of “sexual cleansing” being
waged by hardline religious elements following the death-to-gays fatwa issued
in October, 2005 by the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the 79-year-old Iranian
born-and-trained chief spiritual leader of all Iraqi Shia Muslims.
Last November 9, five underground gay activists were
abducted in a police raid on a secret gay planning meeting of the Iraqi LGBT
group in Baghdad's Al Shaab district. The five activists have not been heard from
since, and are presumed dead. The Iraqi LGBT group was also specifically named
last fall in a fatwa proclaimed by a mullah who is a cleric for the
heavily-armed faction led by extremist Shia religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr. It
said that “people who want to harbor and protect gays should be killed.” An
individual anti-gay fatwa was issued against Ali Hili, the Iraqi LGBT group’s
volunteer coordinator, by Ayatollah Sistani's Council of Mullahs. Ali received
an e-mailed death threat from Sistani’s official headquarters in Qum, Iran.
This death threat was stamped with the Ayatollah Sistani’s seal. Also last
Fall, there were three Interior Ministry raids on safe houses the Iraqi LGBT
group maintained in Basra and Najaf. Two lesbians who ran the Najaf safe house as a refuge
for children forced into the commercial sex trade were murdered -- their
throats were slashed. The Ayatollah Sistani’s original death-to-gays fatwa
inspired the deployment of anti-gay death squads by the Badr Corps, military
arm of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the most
powerful political Shia group in Iraq and
now the cornerstone of the current, U.S.-approved Iraqi government. SCIRI
considers Ayatollah Sistani its spiritual and political guide. The SCIRI’s Badr
Corps, which operates anti-gay death squads, was integrated into the Iraqi
Interior Ministry last Fall, and its members now wear police uniforms and are
able to operate with full police powers.
Gay City News first broke the story about the systematic murder of Iraqi gays in
March 2006. The Bush administration has assiduously courted both Ayatollah
Sistani and SCIRI during the U.S.
occupation of Iraq. A January Human Rights Report of the United Nations Assistance
Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) confirmed the organized “assassinations of homosexuals”
in Iraq. The report said UNAMI had been “alerted to the existence of
religious courts, supervised by clerics, where alleged homosexuals would be
‘tried,’ ‘sentenced to death,’ and then executed.”
In this latest attack on a member of the Iraqi LGBT group, Ali
Hili said: “When Hani was arrested, he had on him $500 in cash which I had just
wired him, money that was to be used to support one of the safe houses we
maintain in Baghdad for gays who have been forced to flee their homes because
of death threats, but the police stole the money like gangsters. We are a poor
organization, and the loss of this sum was significant for us. We are so short
of cash we are being forced to close two of our safe houses in the south of Iraq this
month because we can no longer afford to pay the rent.” These closures will
reduce from five to three the number of safe houses in Iraq
maintained by the Iraqi LGBT group. “We not only have to pay rent for these
safe houses and for electricity, we also have to feed the guys in these houses,
and pay for their health care and medications -- some of them are HIV-positive
-- because they are not able to go out in public or find work for fear of being
killed,” Ali said. Contributions to the Iraqi LGBT group will be used to fund
its safe houses in Iraq, sustain those sheltered in them, continue and extend
the group’s ability to report on and document the lethal anti-gay campaign of
sexual cleansing, and help refugee Iraqi gays fleeing death threats to find
asylum in gay-friendly countries.
LGS is reminded by
this horrific story (above) of how generals in the American and British armies
insisted that homosexuals (gays) they discovered in Nazi concentration camps
after WW2, had to finish their sentences in German prisons. Homophobia is alive
still!
10)TRANSGENDER PEOPLE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS THAT GAYS AND
LESBIANS NOW TAKE FOR GRANTED: SALLY GOLDNER REPORTS in Melbourne’s MCV on 10th
May 2007: “Trans people have a long way to go
before they achieve equity, or win full and consistent legal protection at
State and Federal levels” Sally said, after reporting on the vicious attacks on
a Gippsland trans woman 18 months ago, when TransGender Victoria was contacted
by her after she had been discharged from hospital following a suicide attempt.
Current anti-discrimination legislation across all states and territories is
flawed where gender issues are concerned.
TransGender Victoria believes that all states need services similar to
those provided by Sydney’s Gender Centre, which is “committed to developing and
providing services and activities which enhance the ability of people with
gender issues to make informed choices”, and Tasmania’s “Working It Out”
programme. Victoria’s Equal
Opportunity Act currently protects the full spectrum of people experiencing
gender identity issues. This includes transsexuals regardless of surgical status,
and cross-dressers. Changing a birth certificate, however, requires “sex
affirmation surgery” and is only available to those over 18.Sally concludes:
“So how to change this situation? Personally, I take the view that if I was
realistic regarding my gender, I’d still be trying to live male and be very
depressed or very dead. ‘Realism’ got me nowhere. So it’s time to take the same
approach as a community and not settle for political realism. Rather, it is
time to fight for the justice and equity we all
desire and deserve.” TransGender Victoria: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~victrans and http://www.gendercentre.org.au
11) AUSTRALIA HANDS OVER AN AUSTRALIAN TO US JUSTICE ON MUSIC
PIRACY: Hew Griffiths from Berkeley Vale in NSW
had never set foot in the United States until he was extra- dited there by
order of former Justice Minister in the Howard Government, Senator Chris
Ellison. Griffiths had pirated software produced by American companies and is
currently in a cell in Virginia facing up to 10 years in an American prison. He did not make money
from his activities. In 2003, he was arrested by Australian Federal Police and
denied bail, and for 3 years fought the prospect of extradition. He indicated
he would be willing to plead guilty to a breach of Australian copyright law,
which would mean he could serve time in Australia.
But US authorities wanted their pound of flesh. It has been a triumph for them
because it demonstrates their ability to enforce US laws protecting US
companies against Australians in Australia
–Melb.Age, 7/5/07.
12) CENSORSHIP AND RUDDOCK OVERRIDING APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF CENSOR: In a further sign of the
contempt which Federal Attorney-General holds for those who make
recommendations to him and for the population at large, Philip Ruddock has
appointed the previous Director of the ABC, Donald MacDonald to be the head of
the Office of Film and Literature Classification Board, overriding the Board’s
recommended candidate.
13) CENSORSHIP OF A DIFFERENT KIND: The Age newspaper reported on 29 March 2007
that the Prime Minister’s Department had quadrupled its spending on media
monitoring in four years, and is now spending almost $8000 a week to know what the media is saying. Howard disclosed the
figure in an answer to a question by former Labor frontbencher Kelvin Thomson.
From $105,076 in 2000-01, the PM’s
department had increased spending for media monitoring to $409,871 in 2005-06, with a 36 per cent increase last year alone.
Mr Thomson said an almost fourfold increase in five years meant the PM’s
department alone was spending enough to buy 1000 newspapers a day. “It makes
you wonder what the money is really being used for: media monitoring or media
manipulation?” he said.
14) NEWS BRIEFS! IN THE US, a 12-year-old girl and her outraged
grandparents are suing education officials in Chicago for $500,000
to heal the mental wound caused by having to watch a queer love story. They
allege that a teacher screened an R-rated film, gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain, that left the child
“psychologically distressed.”
IN IRAN, authorities arrested 87 people,
including 80 suspected gay men, at a birthday party in Isfahan. The men
were badly beaten, a Canadian-based Iranian queer organisation has reported.
Rights workers fear they could be tortured.
IN MELBOURNE, PM Howard told a radio station he
did not believe HIV-positive people should be allowed into the country, but
would seek more counsel. It is believed that his immigration and health depts
have now advised him that HIV/AIDS should not be added to the list of
conditions that prevent someone being allowed to immigrate to Australia but are
investigating a change to the law to allow the federal govt to provide state
health depts with a person’s HV status.
IN VICTORIA, a prisoner is bringing a High Court
case that could secure a historic right to vote for 20,000 of Australia’s prisoners.
Vickie Lee Roach, an Aborigine, is being aided by considerable legal muscle to
argue that the Commonwealth Electoral Act provisions that bar prisoners from
voting in federal elections are unconstitutional.
IN CANBERRA, the federal government wants to
narrow the terms of a proposed international treaty banning CLUSTER BOMBS to
exclude new weapons being bought by the Australian Defence Force. It argues
that a self-destruct capacity minimises the risk to civilians from unexploded
cluster bombs. During last year’s war in Lebanon, large
numbers of cluster munitions fired by Israeli forces failed to explode, even
with a self-destruct mechanism, according to observers.
IN POLAND, the government is to ban discussions
on homosexuality in schools and educational institutions across the country,
with teachers facing the sack, fines or imprisonment. The Polish announcement
coincides with the release of a study by the country’s Campaign Against Homophobia group showing a significant rise in
anti-gay attitudes in Poland.
ON The NATION website on 14 June 2007, in an enlightening article
Naomi Klein revealed that in 2006 Israel exported
$3.4 billion in “defence” products which makes Israel the
fourth-largest arms dealer in the world, overtaking Britain. This figure
included $1.2 billion to the United
States much of which is in the so-called
“homeland security” sector –before 9/11 it barely existed as an industry. The
products are unmanned drones (Israel used them in bombing missions in Gaza and
they have been used at the Arizona-Mexico border), high-tech fences, biometric
IDs, video and audio surveillance gear, air passenger profiling and prisoner
interrogation systems –precisely the tools and technologies Israel has used to
lock-in the occupied territories. Klein’s new book, The Shock Doctrine: The rise of Disaster Capitalism, explores the
issues (out Sept).
+Other News briefs were from PlanetOut News website and The Age Newspaper in March,
April and mostly May 2007.
15) INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA – IDAHO: Since 2003,
International Day Against Homophobia, on May 17, has given the world a moment
to focus on the breaches of human rights against lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people here and overseas. It marks the anniversary of the removal
of homosexuality in 1990 from the World Health Organisation’s list of mental
illnesses. Despite the advances in gay rights, homophobia is still prevalent in
today’s world. Approximately 80 countries around the world still criminalize
sexual acts between same-sex adults, and nine countries prescribe the death penalty.
Although homophobia continues to
be a major issue in Australia and internationally as religious bigots
continue to push their message, it is more than ever necessary for there to be
action around Australia to draw attention to the abuses and attacks
which gays, lesbians, transgenders and people living with HIV/AIDS are
subjected to on a daily basis. Actions around the country on 17 May
2007 were not
nationally co-ordinated, and the gay and lesbian media were, mostly, silent on
the issue. There were a few actions, but no national action was achieved.
Actions which took place, as far as we have been able to ascertain, were: Gay
and Lesbian rights Lobby, Perth; Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) NSW together with Amnesty
International in Sydney; Curtin University, Perth; AIDS Council of South Australia; Wollondilly
Advertiser newspaper and a Tasmanian Group.
16) JERRY FALWELL, MORAL MAJORITY
AND GSG: The death
notice in The Age on 17
May 2007 of
the US-based religious bigot and anti-homosexual crusader brought memories flooding
back of Gay Solidarity Group (GSG). When announcements were made of Falwell’s
impending visit to Australia in May1982, four lesbian and gay Sydney activists
registered the name “Moral Majority” as a business name in New South Wales and
urged activists in other states to do the same, which most did. Stickers and
‘demo pinnies’ to slip over street clothes at pickets outside Falwell’s
meetings were made with the same slogans as those printed on the black on
yellow stickers. The slogans included Moral
Majority says Keep abortion safe and legal/ MMsays
lesbians & gays should be blatant/ MMsays Sodom today, Gomorrah the World/ MMsays Matthew, Mark, Luke and John they’re all queens
where I come from/ to quote a few,
and were used to great effect during Falwell’s visit. The campaign got a
revival when some of the stickers were distributed at Melbourne’s Queen’s Birthday Camp Betty –a weekend of radical sex and
politics, with a bit of a blast from the past!
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++++++++ SPAIDS 33RD
PLANTING SINCE 1994 ++++++++
Come to Sydney Park, St
Peters, in the AIDS Memorial
Groves on Sunday,
29th July 2007
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