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Joys from the Ojo Cali-
ente Water Park, a pub
lic swimming area.
PAN is the party of
Mexican
President
elect Vincente Fox.
“This has noth
ing to do with us,”
PAN National Pres
ident Luis Felipe
Bravo Mena said. “We
reject and repudiate it. This
(view] corresponds to the partic
ular input of some lower-level city employee. In
no way can this he attributed to the party. 1
strongly deny that this comes from the Nation
al Action Party. The decision made at the water
park is the work of an individual, and if any
doubt remains, 1 can say that 1 feel that this is
absolutely reprehensible. We do not believe in
any type of discrimination and reject it.”
The sign, meanwhile, was removed by order
of Mayor Luis Armando Reynoso Femat one
day after about 50 gays picketed City Hall
demanding the firing of Director of Regulations
Jorge Alvarez Medina, who had approved the
sign. The protesters— from the groups Lesbian
and Gay Pride, Foundation Against AIDS, the
Falcons and In Search of Gay Rights— chanted:
“Alvarez, fag, paint yourself like a girl already”
and “In my bed I am the master.”
“When we went to the ballot boxes to
deposit our votes, we were never asked for our
sexual orientation,” said Juan Sanchez Mayner,
Aguascalientes Association of Proudly Gay
Makeup Artists president. “This situation takes
us hack to ancient times. Really, this is
deplorable.”
aftemœn of unauthorized semi
nars in a city park, then
marching to a downtown
monument and unfurling a
huge rainbow flag. “The
authorities continue to
exercise (their] repressive
machine, which deprives
sexual minorities repre
sentatives of the possibility to
openly struggle for their rights,” said
Edward Tarletskii of the Belarus League for
Freedom of Sexual Minorities.
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Gay &. Lesbian Human Rights Commission
reports. “The companies responsible for sup
plying government health centers with AID S
drugs— including Indinavir, 3TC , d4T and
other anti-retrovirals— have repeatedly failed
to meet their contractual obligations,” the
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ord Waheed Alii, the only openly gay mem-
^ her of Britain’s House of Lords, and his
lover, multimillionaire media tycoon Charlie
Parsons, would like to have children, London’s
Sunday Times reports.
Parsons created the hit television show Sur
HIV-positive people receiving medica
vivor. Alii was appointed a life peer by Prime tions through the public health system in
Buenos Aires have faced increasingly frac
Minister Tony Blair in August 1998.
tured drug dispensation schedules and acute
shortages of drugs that require strict adher
DELARUS
A uthorities in Minsk, capital of the former ence and dosage regimens, the commission
Soviet republic of Belarus, banned the gay said.
“Long lines, hours of waiting and allot
pride parade and all other pride week activities
ments of [generic] drugs of dubious origin,
Sept. 8.
parceled out in plastic bags, propelled AIDS
According to Swedish activist Bill Schiller,
who was in Minsk: “Uniformed police arrived at activists into the streets to protest,” the group
the inauguration performance already in . said. “Dispensation of drugs, at one time
monthly, now requires patients to present
progress, ordered the lights shut off and gave
participants only minutes to evacuate the build themselves at the dispensary as often as every
ing. Police then followed the festival partici three to five days.”
People interested in working to help
pants through the street to another club, which
had received police orders by phone to shut its improve the situation should send e-mail to
alejandra@iglhrc.org. j n
dix)rs, trapping the other customers inside.”
The next day, the police shut down the pride
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who fuxs reported
organization’s office and the entire building in
which it was located, closed another festival site /or the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's
where performances and art exhibits were degree in journalism from Drake University ard
scheduled and canceled the gay film festival, started his career as a radio reporter.
which already had begun.
Gays protested the actions by holding an
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