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TURKEY
rganizers of the 649th Kirkpinar oil
wrestling championships are outraged that
the Bears of Turkey group is organizing an out
ing to the July 1 and 2 event near the city of
Edime.
The wrestlers—burly, mustachioed men who
rub themselves with olive oil, wear leather pants
and stick their hands down one another’s
trousers to get a better grip—want the govern
ment to forbid the bears’ attendance.
“It’s immoral,” said Alper Yazoglu, chairman
of the Traditional Sports Federation. “We are
trying every way to have this stopped.... We
shall pass this matter on to the interior, foreign
and other ministries to ask for this disgusting
business to be stopped.”
The bears are advertising their outing on the
Internet at www.ayilar.net.
“There was nothing defamatory on our Web
site,” said Outcast editor Chris Morris. "NetBen-
efit couldn’t take any chances, so they shut up
our site.... We are hoping to force the govern
ment to change the law of libel. (It] should apply
to journalists...not to the Internet service
providers.”
The European Court of Human Rights is the
supreme court of the Council of Europe, which
counts 41 nations as members.
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ritish Prime Minister Tony Blair wants to
make it easier for same-sex couples to adopt
children, the Sunday Times reported April 23.
Blair has thrown his weight behind plans for
a new national adoption scheme that would
require local officials to consider gay and
straight couples on equal footing.
Cunent law allows an individual gay or les
bian person to adopt a child, but in reality very
few succeed. In 1998, three of the nation’s near
ly 2,000 adoptions were by gay men or lesbians.
he British gay lobby group Stonewall
received $1.41 million from the National
Lottery Charities Board on April 13.
The money will be used in Stonewall’s Citi
zenship 21 program to challenge prejudice and
homophobia, foster institutional change, and
build links among minority communities.
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the past decade, have created bear clubs, bars
and magazines that bring together men whose
libidos are disinterested in the “twink,” “pretty
boy,” and chiseled-body look often promoted by
the gay media.
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he British gay magazine Outcast filed a
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on lesbian and gay issues for employers and gov
sorship of its Internet site.
The site was shut down March 29 by Out ernment entities. A national lesbian and gay
cast’s Internet service provider, Netbenefit, after database will be created for use by gay groups,
lawyers for the gay newspaper The Pink Paper police, health officials and charities.
alleged in a letter to Netbenefit that Outcast
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might publish an article that would defame The
for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
Pink Paper.
Under British law, ISPs are legally responsi degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
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