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tWT^mnews JEWEL A. ROBINSON See my Exclusive Listings on our webpage Multimillion $ Producer Hamburg, Germany, set up a registry for gay and lesbian couples. In an apparent first, two Japanese men got “married” at a Shinto shrine. Several dozen Bulgarian gays and lesbians published an ad in the daily newspaper 24 Tchassa demanding legalization of same-sex marriage. The Chelyabinsk, Russia, gay and lesbian group Freedom of Conscience demanded the government legalize same-sex marriage. U gly G oings - on hree people were killed and 70 were injured when a nail bomb ripped through a gay bar in the heart of London’s Soho district. Nine people were injured in Cape Town, South Africa, when a pipe bomb exploded at the gay Blah Bar. A British Shariah Court sentenced play wright Terrence McNally to death via a fatwa. Canaan Banana, a former Zimbabwean pres ident, was sentenced to prison on 11 counts of forcing himself sexually on his male aides, bodyguards, cook and gardener. The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, ordered the arrest of all the nation’s queers. Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi called homosexuality a “scourge.” Orthodox Christians threatened staff and destroyed posters at the Nottara Theater in Bucharest, Romania, in protest against the gay- themed play Angels in America. Protesters threw rocks and tomatoes at Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson because her Ecce Homo exhibit depicts Jesus and the apostles in drag and as leathermen. Hundreds of New Zealanders, including scores of public officials, were outed when an online gay newsletter was transmitted with VOICE MAIL (503) 301-4283 E-MAIL Jewel2U@teleport.com O rganizing ndian lesbians formed an organization to respond to the ransacking of theaters showing the lesbian-themed film Fire. Gays and lesbians formed a national network called LGBT India. Jerusalem’s first gay and lesbian center opened. Mongolia’s first gay organization, Talivan, formed. Fiji’s first gay and lesbian group, the Sexual Minorities Project, opened for business. Murmansk, Russia’s first gay organization, The Circle, was officially registered with the government. Gays and lesbians in Belarus staged their first pride celebration. The Bank of Scotland ended a partnership with U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson in response to protests by queers. Cambodia’s first gay bar opened. 1730 N.E. 10th Avenue Gfrj» Prudential Portland, OR 97212 NorthwwtPropwt»« I i / enezuela’s Supreme Court ordered the Min- ¥ istry of Health to provide all AIDS-related drugs to all HIV-positive Venezuelans and for eign residents of the country. About 300 demonstrators picketed the U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, in protest against Vice President Al Gore’s efforts to restrict the nation’s access to cheaper AIDS drugs. 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Georgina Beyer, 42, represents the conser vative Wairarapa region in the southeast of the North Island, near the nation’s capital. In a Nov. 27 election, Beyer beat her near est opponent by more than 2,000 votes (out of nearly 23,000 total). A nationally known actor and former pros titute, stripper and drag queen, Beyer is also mayor of Carterton, a town of 7,000 people. She changed her gender in 1984. “Of course, I’m feeling quite humbled by this event,” Beyer says. “I think it speaks vol umes to minorities in the world that you can overcome adversity and achieve and be suc cessful so that you can be a positive contribu tor to society.” Beyer says members of the media were the only folks who made her transsexualism an issue during the campaign. “They always seize upon it as a novelty, and it usually ends up working in my favor when they do that, because the angle that they try to take, it doesn’t discredit me but it certainly tries to push it out there as an issue as to why people would not vote for me,” she says. “I have always maintained that the gender OFFICE (503) 281-4040 their e-mail addresses visible instead of hidden by blind carbon copy. New Zealand’s Georgina Beyer, the world’s first transsexual member of Parliament N question is not the issue. It is the ability of the person to be able to do the job,” Beyer contin ues. “With the experiences I’ve had in my life—but also in my local government career—I believed that I was the person that was going to be the best for the constituency." Beyer says she’ll work on gay and lesbian issues with New Zealand’s two openly gay members of Parliament, Tim Barnett and Chris Carter. “I will certainly be involved with that,” Beyer says. “It would be unthinkable that I wouldn’t have some involvement with those issues. It won’t necessarily be my primary inter est. I represent an electorate now so that has to be my priority, but of course I’ll be working with any human rights issues that we need to deal with.” ■ Reported by R ex W ockner Chat I Personals | News | Travel | Entertainment | People ¥ PlanetOut.com www.planetout.com | AOL Keyword: PlanetOut V_______________________________________________ engage enjoy _____________________________________________ / f
