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MALAYSIA
alacca Museums officials have asked
police to arrest transvestites who use the
museums’ outdoor historical sites to meet and
sometimes service customers.
The largest concentration of hookers can be
found in the St. Paul’s Hill area around the ruins
of the nation’s oldest Christian church and
cemetery. The prostitutes also have been seen
servicing customers in an antique train, a fire
engine and an airplane that are part of museum
exhibits.
Malacca Museums Corp. General Manager
Jamil Mukmin said the transvestites are turning
the sites into a vice den.
M
NEPAL
he International Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Commission is working to protect
two young lesbians threatened by violence in
rural Nepal.
O n March 27, Maya T , 18, and Indira R.,
17, were handed
over to police of
the Pathari Vil­
lage Develop­
ment Committee
by their relatives
as
neighbors
jeered the couple.
According to
IG LH RC ,
“A t
the station, the
two
reportedly
told police, ‘No
one will separate
us and no one
will stop us from loving each other.’ ”
They were held for two days and released
without charges on the condition they not see
each other again. Their families have kept them
apart since.
But IG LH RC says news of the relationship
continues to rile neighbors and the women’s
lives may be in danger.
The group is calling for immediate protest
letters to Basudev Bhattarai, Assistant Sub-
Inspector, Pathari Biratnagar Police Office,
Biratnagar; and to the Hon. Mr. Krishna Prasad
Bhattarai, Prime Minister, Government Offices,
Singha Durbar, Katmandu.
SINGAPORE
majority of Singaporeans could accept a
gay brother, sister, son or daughter, an
informal survey has found.
Gay activists questioned 491 adults. Forty-
six percent of those interviewed on
the street and 74 percent of those
polled online said they could
accept the relative. Twenty-six
percent of street respondents
and 9 percent of Internet
respondents said
they could
not.
“I am not
surprised
(at
the
results],
activist Alex
Au told the
South China Morn­
ing Post. “In coming
out, I have met
nothing but friendliness
and open-mindedness.”
Seventy-three percent
of street respondents and 83
percent of Internet respon­
dents said employers should
not discriminate based on sex­
ual orientation.
A
ingapore police denied a permit for a gay
O conference May 24.
It was the first time organizers of a gay event
had applied for a public entertainment license,
which is required for all public gatherings of
more than eight people.
“The mainstream moral values of Singapore­
ans are conservative, and the Penal Code has
provisions against certain homosexual prac­
tices,” the police said in a letter to activists. “It
will therefore be contrary to the public interest
to grant a public entertainment license.”
Gay sex is banned in Singapore. Sodomy, fel­
latio and cunnilingus between males and
females are also prohibited except when the acts
are foreplay to penile-vaginal sex.
It is also illegal for a male to abet or procure
“an act of gross indecency" with another male.
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he last man kicked out of the British mili­
tary for being gay was reinstated in May
with his pay, seniority and rank restored, The
Guardian reported.
Britain’s military gay ban was struck down
last August by the European Court of Human
Rights.
Richard Young, 25, a Royal Navy chef, said
he is “ecstatic” to have his job back.
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ctor Sir John Gielgud, 96, died May 21 at
his home near Aylesbury, England, of what
a spokesman called “old age.”
Gielgud appeared in
countless plays, many of
them Shakespearean,
and in more than 50
films, including Arthur,
for which he won an
Academy Award in
1982.
Many contemporary
critics considered him
the greatest classical
actor of their time.
Gielgud’s longtime partner, Martin Hensler,
died last year.
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ritish gay men apparently are having more
unprotected sex, fueling a surge in cases of
chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
In London, gonorrhea is up by a third since
1997. In Manchester, syphilis cases have risen
from one or two per year to 30 in 1999.
“W hat we have here are two diseases we
thought we had conquered,” said John Ashton,
regional director for Public Health in the North
West. “The rise in transmission of these diseases
can only indicate that people are abandoning
the safe-sex message.”
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ZIMRARWE
ormer President Canaan Banana, convicted
for sexual assault of male staff members in
the 1980s, will serve one year in jail.
He had been found guilty of sodomy, abuse of
power and unnatural acts in 1999 but remained
free pending a Supreme Court appeal, which he
lost May 29.
Among those Banana intimidated into hav­
ing sex were his bodyguard, cook and gardener.
The incidents came to light starting in 1995,
when a bodyguard, Jefta Dube, shot to death a
colleague who had taunted him by calling him
“Banana’s wife."
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