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january 21.2000 t l U 'i n e i v s added that he and partner Michael Link are preparing to adopt a second child. “I would say 90 percent of the fans wrote really, really nice letters,” Link told reporters. “Most o f them said: ‘We love your music. We like you. But we don’t want to marry you. And we / don’t care what you do when you go to your bedroom.’ “But when 1 read it [our being outed] like that on the front page, I went into shock,” he contin ued. “W hen we came back after our holiday, when I went to the butcher, the baker and so on, 1 felt as if I was naked in their eyes. But they were just as friendly as before.” Lindner sings syrupy Volksmusik, and many of his fans are middle-aged residents of conserva tive Bavaria, whose folk ballads and drinking songs are the inspiration for the genre. Britain’s The Guardian newspaper described Volksmusik as “an amalgam of country and west ern, pub crooning and 7 0 s glam rock.” 4 GUATEMALA O penly gay U.S. journalist Larry Lee, 41, was murdered Dec. 28 in Guatemala City, where he was based. Lee, a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, was found stabbed to death in his apartment. He worked for Bridge News, a financial wire service. INTERNATIONAL O n Dec. 21, the European Court of Human Rights struck down a Portuguese ruling that had stripped a gay man of his parental rights because of his sexual orientation. The court ruled unanimously that the Lisbon Court of Appeal had discriminated against Joao Manuel Salgueiro da Silva Mouta based on his sexuality and violated his “right to respect for private and family life” as guar anteed by the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamen tal Freedoms. The Portuguese court had said homosex uality is “an abnormality, and children must not grow up in the shadow of abnormal situa tions.” Salgueiro da Silva Mouta had been allowed to visit his 9-year-old daughter only if he did not reveal to her that he is gay. Portugal has 90 days to appeal the new ruling TfLita / lowers to a 17-member Grand Chamber of the Euro pean Court of Human Rights. Ü^enendervoHr lored ores jo r T he New York-based nonprofit organization Aid for A ID S says it has sent more than $2 million in leftover anti-HIV drugs from the United States to 170 people with HIV in 18 South American nations. A similar program operates in San Diego, where drugs left over when people die or change medications are routed to a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. 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Negotiations with the U.S. company Bristol- Myers Squibb, which holds the patent on the drug, have dragged on too long and the Gov ernment Pharmaceutical Organization should invoke international law on compulsory licensing and produce ddl itself, the demonstrators said. Bristol-Myers sells the drug in Thailand for $1.25 per pill— $150 for a month’s sup ply— which is beyond the reach of most Thais. Protester Paisal Tanut of the HIV Network said generic ddl could be sold for half as much. One in 60 Thais is HIV-positive, and 35,412 have died of AIDS-related conditions. ■ Com piled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. 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