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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 2000)
nrmnmhnr 1 ?flfin jmwt — a ÏWT ïï ITI news aiwanese President Chen Shui-bian met with five gay activists Sept. 4 after the first- ever gay pride festival staged by the Taipei Bureau of Civil Affairs. He invited N an H unter and M ichael Bronski of the U nited States to meet with him , and they brought three Taiwanese activists along. “[The request] came com pletely out of the blue and was stunning to local activists,” H unter said. She and Bronski discussed gay rights issues with C hen and gave him a rainbow flag and a rainbow lapel pin. T he local activists urged him to enact laws to protect gays from discrimination. The pride festival featured a band, dancers, a gay history exhibit and booths staffed by gay organizations. In preparation for the events, the city printed pamphlets for the general public explaining gay history and culture and that homosexuality is biologically based. Officials also published a guide to the island’s gay groups and meeting places. T THAILAND olice are refusing to close Silom Road for Bangkok’s Nov. 5 gay pride parade. They say it would create traffic chaos. Organizers are confused, because access was granted in previous years. The Bangkok Post said the turn of events has thrown plans for the parade into “disarray.” Organizers are seeking a meeting with police officials. P ITALY he Vatican said Oct. 9 that Oscar Wilde’s deathbed conver sion to Roman Catholi cism was real, even though he was only semi conscious. “T he time spent behind bars [on a gay-sex conviction] was decisive,” said the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, writ ing in the Vatican-endorsed Jesuit publication La Civilita Cattolica. The priest summoned to Wilde’s deathbed was “absolutely sure” that the conversion was authentic and that Wilde had renounced his life o f degradation, vanity and frivolity, Spadaro said. The Jesuit magazine, founded in 1850, previously had condemned the famed gay author based on his poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol.” T ope John Paul II denounced gay families Oct. 14. Speaking to 300,000 people in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of the Family, part of the Roman Catholic Church’s millennium celebra tion, he said: “No one but parents can know just how important it is for children to have both figures— that of a mother and of a father. It is not a step forward for civilization to favor those ten dencies which put in the shade that elementary truth and would like to see themselves put on the same legal footing.” P RUSSIA R ussia’s National Center for the Fight Against AIDS began running newspaper advertisements Oct. 11 recommending “virgini ty, masturbation and telephone sex” in place of intercourse. More cases of HIV have been reported nationwide this year than in the past 13 years combined. T he ads also promote “oral sex, condom use and limiting the num ber of sexual part ners.” U p to 400,000 Russians are thought to be HIV-positive. DOWNTOWN AT 927 SW OAK The NW’s best selection of gay erotica, including: • Every erotic photo book and an brxik in print ourism Toronto will spend $20,000 to print brochures and set up a toll-free tele phone line for gay and les bian visitors, the local newspaper »■■■r i iji -----— i^~ r | Xtra! reported. “For about two \\X X M \ LC4ÜÜ 11 or three years, _ Tourism Toronto has been looking • at a Visit gay-friendly Toronto’ campaign,” said Patrick Barry of Rainbow High Vacations, which lob bied for the campaign. “They’re putting a lot of money into it.” COSTA RICA Ventral America’s only gay leather bar has ✓ opened in San José, Costa Rica. The Back Room is located downtown, just north of the Hotel Europa. Costa Rica is more prosperous than most Latin American nations. 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