Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013, January 05, 2001, Page 21, Image 21

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    January 5.2001 * Just Mt|21
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S O U TH KO R EA
H
ong Siik-chon, the South Korean actor
who was fired from his roles on several pro­
grams after he came out of the closet in Sep­
tember, appeared on the All Star Shout, a New
Year’s Day television special, the Korea Herald
reports.
The paper said the
invitation signaled that
the broadcast networks
have come around and
accepted his sexuality. The
firings were protested by
other celebrities and gay
activists who formed a Hong Suk-chon
support group.
Since coming out, Hong has appeared on
some cable shows and released an album of
Christmas music, but he had been blacklisted by
the over-the-air networks. For the immediate
future, he will serve as host of the cable program
Sex and Health and write the memoir I Still Get
Thrilled About Illicit Love.
A U S TR A L IA
t least three new gay newspapers have been
launched in Australia following the col­
lapse of Satellite Media, which owned six of the
nation’s gay newspapers and the 17-year-old
national gay glossy magazine Outrage. When
Satellite crashed and burned, it took with it
Outrage, the Melbourne Star Observer, Mel­
bourne’s Brother Sister, Brisbane’s Brother Sister,
Sydney’s Capital Q, Perth’s Westside Observer
and the Adelaide Gay Times.
The new paper in Sydney, published by former
Satellite employees, is called G. Melbourne has
Melbourne Community Voice and BnewsS, produced
by separate groups of former Satellite employees.
A
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n unnamed pregnant lesbian made history
Dec. 14, the Australian reported. She is the
first in the state of Victoria to become pregnant
via in vitro fertilization since a landmark Feder­
al Court ruling granted lesbians access to repro­
ductive technology.
Family groups condemned the conception as
a devastating day for families and an assault on
every child’s right to a father, the Australian said.
Victoria is where Melbourne is located.
A
URUGUAY
A
bout 150 gays and lesbians staged a pride
march Sept. 28 in Montevideo, Uruguay,
the South African gay newspaper Exit reported
in its December issue.
Another 100 participants walked along on
the sidewalks, out of view of media photogra­
phers. The city’s first gay pride parade, in 1993,
attracted 13 people, Exit said.
With the theme “Consciousness of Sexual
Diversity,’’ the parade traversed the city’s most
crowded street, July 18th Avenue. One banner
read, “Yes to alternative families, civil union,
adoption and insemination.”
A float— the first ever in an Uruguayan pride
parade— was funded by the City Council. Two
“nuns” rode on it, dancing and blowing kisses.
The next day, the Catholic diocese denounced
the float as a “scandal.”
“Among all these people and rainbow colors,
I felt so brave, so proud,” one marcher, William,
told an Exit correspondent.
U K R A IN E
U
kraine’s Our World Gay and Lesbian Cen­
ter in Lugansk says it has exhausted
domestic sources of funding and is seeking for­
eign donations to continue its work.
In a 28-page magazine sent to foreign jour­
nalists, the organization said $10 will fund 50
copies of its Informational Bulletin, which is
mailed to politicians, reporters and public fig-
ures; $20 will pay two days’ wages for the group’s
three employees; $50 will pay two weeks’ rent
on their office; and $100 “will give life to the
new projects we plan, like developing legislative
proposals and answers for younger homosexuals
adapting personally and socially.”
The average salary in Ukraine is less than
$50 a month, the activists said.
The magazine sent to reporters, Ukrainian
Gay Men and Lesbians at the Threshold of the Mil­
lennium, provides a comprehensive look at the
situation of Ukrainian gays and the work of the
Our World Center. It can be viewed online at
www.gay.org.ua/publish.htm.
For more information, e-mail ourworld®
cci.lg.ua, call 011-38-0642-53-06-99, or visit
www.gay.org.ua.
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M EXICO
ity councilors from Mexico City’s ruling
✓ Democratic Revolution Party are in the
final stages of preparing a measure to recognize
gay unions and let gay couples adopt children. It
is not known if the bill will pass.
The leftist party holds 19 seats in the body.
The center-right National Action Party has 17
seats, and the centrist Institutional Revolution­
ary Party has 16 seats.
“It is very significant from our point of view
to advance the human and civil rights of these
people that are supposedly bom free and equal
under the constitution,” Armando Quintero,
the council’s Democratic Revolution Party
leader, told the Reforma newspaper.
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GHANA
P
eople with AIDS in Ghana have been cut
off from the drugs AZT and 3TC following
legal threats from mammoth drugmaker Glaxo
Smithkline.
In an effort to increase drug access, Healthcare
Ltd., a distributor in Ghana, recently bought
cheap generic AZT and 3TC from Cipla Inc., a
company in India. The generic drugs are about 10
times cheaper than Glaxo Smithkline’s patented
versions. Glaxo Smithkline found out Cipla was
exporting the drugs, accused it of violating patents
and threatened a lawsuit if the exports continued.
Cipla halted the exports, Healthcare Ltd.
stopped distribution of pills that already had
arrived in Ghana, and the people with AIDS
who were taking the drugs now go without. For
more information, call 215-731-1844 or e-mail
asia@critpath.org.
office: 503-238-7617
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R F A tl O P ®
TH E P H IL IP P IN E S
onathan Agudaa, 30, has sued the Manilla
discotheque Club Royale for denying him
entrance because he was dressed in women’s
clothing. His case was heard Dec. 12 before the
Commission on Human Relations.
“Gays have the right to wear ladies clothes,
too,” Agudaa testified. Cross-dressing “is a form
of self-expression for gays, and the public should
not perceive it as offensive.”
J
Full Service
Gay-Owned
Travel Agency
is Looking for
Outside Travel Agents
Who are:
N IG E R IA
• Experienced in oil aspects
of the travel industry.
A
lliance Rights Nigeria is a new gay organi­
zation in the West African nation. The
group, which has 467 members, organizes semi­
nars and lectures in high schools to provide
information on sexually transmitted diseases,
safer sex and gay and lesbian pride.
At least one other gay organization, the
Alternative Lifestyles Foundation, has formed
recently in Lagos. Co-founder Kene Uz Korie
hopes to organize gays and lesbians into a formi­
dable pressure group to promote gay visibility
and equality.
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for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's
degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter
• Well connected with the Gay Community.
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