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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.”
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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
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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.
In both instances, the drugs go
directly to physicians who care for
people with HIV, to avoid any possibil
ity of interference by corrupt government
workers.
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