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" ¥ / ' orean actor Sok-chon Hong publicly came
l \ out of the closet Sept. 21 after being outed
Sept. 17 by the newspaper Daily Sports.
He quickly was fired from his job as host of
the children’s television show Po Po Po and his
job on the radio sitcom Nobody Can Deal with
My Family. A planned appearance on the tele
vision program Sexy Night also was canceled by
the producers.
Hong, 29, is the first Korean celebrity to
acknowledge being gay.
“1 really tried to live properly, but I’ve failed,”
he told viewers of the TV program Midnight
Entertainment Live. “I’m sorry. If you find that you
don’t like me anymore, I don’t know what I’ll do.
I’m so emotionally worn out. I’m so sorry to the
audience, who trusted me and feel betrayed.”
In a later interview, Hong seemed less self-
loathing.
“I came out because I didn’t deceive myself,
and I knew I’m not wrong,” he said. “That’s it. I
knew I would have much disadvantage after
coming out and mess up my career 1 have
worked for, hut I could not help it. Every day is
a struggle after coming out. A struggle with
myself and everything. 1 didn’t mean to he a
warrior, hut it seems that I already am.”
Several organizations have protested Hong’s
dismissal from the broadcast programs, includ
ing the gay men’s group Chingusai, the Lesbian
and Gay Human Rights Federation, the Seoul
Queer Film Festival Organizing Committee, the
gay magazine Buddy, the Sarangbang Group for
Human Rights and the Citizens Network for the
Cultural Revolution. “We are going to fight
until the violence, discrimination, prejudices
and brutal fascism of this society is stopped,”
they said in a statement.
characters reportedly will not appear in future
episodes of the television program.
PERU
Protesters blocked the streets of Tabalosos
with trucks and boulders Oct. 5 after a Lima net
work reported something in the town’s drinking
water makes all the male residents gay.
The remote town of 14,000 is in the north
east of the country. “Our men are really manly
men,” one group of women protesters chanted.
Mayor Francisco Cueva has demanded a
retraction and threatened a lawsuit. “It’s slan
der,” he said. “We have always been tough and
hardworking.”
The protesters told reporters there likely are
some gay people in Tabalosos— and that’s not a
problem.
CANADA
’ oronto police say they have filed charges
stemming from their Sept. 15 raid of a
women’s “Pussy Palace” night at the gay male
Club Baths.
But they are not saying what the charges are.
Earlier, police officials had said that bathhouse
patrons were drinking alcohol in areas of the
club that were not covered by the organizers’
special-event liquor license and that disorderly
conduct charges might he filed.
Meanwhile, gays and lesbians protesting the
raid marched on police headquarters Sept. 21
chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Julian Fantino’s got
to go” and “Pussies fight hack.”
Fantino is Toronto’s police chief. He had a
bad relationship with gays in his previous job as
police chief of London, Ontario.
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he most ardent supporter of gay equality in
Brazil’s congress, Marta Suplicy, received
the most votes in Sao Paulo’s mayoral primary
election Oct. 1.
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Oct. 19. Suplicy, a former television personality
known for her frank talk about sex, is the spon
sor of a gay partnership law stalled in the Cham
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sing a free e-mail address and a free Web
page, a previously unknown organization
called Tories Against Hypocrisy supposedly has
outed seven British Members of Parliament:
Nigel Evans, Ann Widdecotnbe, David Ruffley,
Nick Gibb, Alan Duncan, Gerald Howarth and
Michael Fabricant.
It did not present any evidence for its
detailed and graphic accusations and did not
respond to a reporter’s request for additional
information. None of the politicians has com
mented publicly on the scandal.
The group has threatened to out numerous
other high-ranking Tory officials. “Our aim is to
rid the Conservative Party of hypocrisy and
homophobia and to ensure that the public see us
as a party of honesty, consistency and integrity,”
it said.
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wo gay characters
will marry each
other on the British
Broadcasting
Corp.
hospital drama Casualty
on Oct. 14 and 15. It
will he the first gay wed
ding shown on U.K.
television.
HIV-positive nurse
Adam will wed his dancer
boyfriend, Reuben. The
N A M IB IA
H
ome Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo told
police officers Oct. 1 to eliminate homo
sexuals.
Speaking to 700 new graduates of the police
academy in northern Ondangwa, he said: “We
must make sure we eliminate them from the face
of Namibia. IThe] constitution does not guaran
tee rights for gays and lesbians. Even if gays and
lesbians had a gay dog, they would murder it."
The gay group Rainbow Project responded
by urging the government “to publicly reject”
Ekandjo’s statements. Deputy Home Affairs
Minister Jeremiah Nambinga has expressed sim
ilar sentiments.
“Homosexuality is evil,”
he said last year. “Homosexu
ality is anti-social and should
not only be condemned but
should also be legislated
against. Homosexuals are
patients of psychological and
biological deviations.”
Namibian President Sam
Nujoma has said: “Those who
are practicing homosexuality
in Namibia are destroying the
nation.... Homosexuals must
be condemned and rejected in our society.”