(•) Family kept ex-hostage's sexual orientation secret
Last Updated Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:58:44 EST
CBC News
Friends and family of former Canadian hostage James Loney kept his
homosexuality secret during his captivity to protect his security, says a
co-director of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
"It's a sad reality around the whole world today that gays and lesbians
are more vulnerable to violence than straight people," said Doug
Pritchard. Freed Canadian hostage James Loney, centre, followed by partner
Dan Hunt, rear, brother Matt and sister-in-law Donna, rushes to greet
friends at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Sunday. (CP
Photo/Frank Gunn)
"And we were concerned in Jim's current vulnerable state of captivity
that if that was more widely known, that he could be more vulnerable."
Loney, 41, and two CPT colleagues Canadian Harmeet Singh Sooden and
Briton Norman Kember were rescued on March 23, four months after being
taken hostage in Baghdad by a little-known Iraqi group.
A fourth abducted colleague, 54-year-old American Tom Fox, was shot to
death earlier this month.
Loney's partner, Dan Hunt, chose to remain silent from the outset of the
hostage-taking. Loney first mentioned his partner after he arrived in
Canada on Sunday.
"I'm going to disappear for a little while into a different kind of
abyss an abyss of love," Loney said at Toronto's Pearson International
Airport. "I need some time to get reacquainted with my partner Dan."
Hunt made his first public appearance when he greeted his partner Sunday.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/03/27/newloney-home060327.html
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