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iehmary 2^2001 » Jau t o u t 1 g i'i'jü i'jn e u js assistance, money, a computer and a phone, said Treasurer Mohamed Tiam, who receives e-mail at mehthiam@yahoo.fr. does not allow same-sex marriage, but Hawkes says that doesn’t matter. “The fact that I’m required by law to submit that documentation to the government to be reg- Columbia County’s Premier Real Estate Resource. TAIWAN A total of 20 men ./ 1 from Taiwan will i 1: pull a Boeing 747 jet liner down a Los Ange " les runway with their penises this March, Salon.com reported Jan. 12. The plane will wear a harness with 20 lines attached to it. The men are devo Martial arts devotees will bring a whole new meaning to the term “ cockpit” tees of the Chinese martial art Chiu Chiu Sen Gong. They hope to istered doesn’t affect the marriage,” he told the CBC. “There are even cases in law in the Mar set a Guinness world record. riage Act if, through negligence, the clergyperson ZAMBIA fails to meet the requirement to submit the docu ambia’s Registrar of Societies continues to mentation within two days it doesn’t affect the marriage of the couple. They’re still married.” refuse to register the Lesbian, Gay and Transgender Association, also known as Legatra. A protracted legal battle is expected. Because of this and other problems, the or ganization has been unable to raise money to RUSSIA create a public awareness campaign and chal t current infection rates, half of the Rus lenge the ban on gay male sex. “At the moment sian population will be HIV-positive in 10 we are at an impasse,” spokeswoman Regina years, the head of the National Center for the Numwa said. Fight Against AIDS said Jan. 9. “If this rate of Gay men routinely are arrested. The cases infection continues, more than a million people usually are dropped for lack of evidence or set will have the HIV virus by the end of the year, and half of the Russian population will be tled out of court. Legatra’s president has been gay-bashed infected within the next 10 years,” Vadim twice. In one incident, one of his eyes perma Pokrovsky said in an interview on Echo Radio. nently was damaged. Russia’s population is 145 million; at least a “Zambians are generally not very militant peo half-million people are infected now, he said. ple, and faced with multiple hostilities, the LGBT Pokrovsky needs an annual budget of $70 million community closes ranks,” Numwa said. “Legatra to fight the spread of the virus effectively, he said, finds it very difficult to organize the LGBT com but the government has given him only $3 million. munity, as they live in perpetual fear of their lives.” Zambian Vice President Christon Tembo has IRELAND said: “An association formed to further the inter syphilis outbreak has occurred among men ests of homosexuals can never be registered in who have sex with men in Dublin, the Zambia. Those who will persist in championing Irish Times reported Jan. 15. the cause for homosexual activities in Zambia risk A total of 27 cases have been being arrested for the felonies of committing crim recorded. An outbreak control team inal acts or for conspiracy to commit criminal acts.” has been established to formulate an intervention strategy, the news TANZANIA paper said. he Tanzanian gay group Community Peer Support Services has grown to 334 mem NORWAY bers since its launch three years ago. orway castrated gays, mental patients and Organizers say they have trained 250 people epileptics from 1934 to 1969 “to prevent as activists, set up a lobbying arm and created sexual crimes,” according to historian Per Haave, national and international linkages. H ie group who has access to the national health archives. recently received funding from the Netherlands’ A total of 370 men and 44 women had their Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Devel testicles or ovaries removed hy government doc oping Countries to open an office and conduct tors. “Among the men...there were many 10 regional human rights workshops. homosexuals,” Haave told Reuters. He said most of the victims were younger CANADA than 20. Many of the operations were performed wo gay couples in Toronto believe they got during the late 1940s. married legally Jan. 14. Kevin Bourassa and Joe Vamell and Elaine Vautour and Anne Vau- UNITED KINGDOM tour were married by the Rev. Brent Hawkes at ay cops are being harassed by colleagues at the Metropolitan Community Church after, in London’s West End Central Station, the accord with the Ontario Marriage Act, the London Evening Standard reported Jan. 10. Scot church announced the couples’ marriage land Yard’s Directorate of Professional Standards “banns” three Sundays in a row. launched an investigation after eight gay officers received hate mail and some received bottles of Announcing marriage plans three weeks gasoline at their home addresses along with in a row in church carries the same legal notes urging them to torch themselves. weight as obtaining a marriage license at city One officer had the word “faggot” scratched hall. The relevant statute states, “Any person who is of the age of majority may obtain a into his car paint inside a secure police com license or be married under the authority of pound, and anti-gay epithets have been the publication of banns, provided no lawful scrawled on officers’ lockers as well. The police station is near London’s heavily gay Soho dis cause exists to hinder the solemnization.” Following the double wedding, Hawkes trict and Old Compton Street. j n issued legal marriage certificates to the cou Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported ples and sent the documentation to the Ontario Registrar-General. The provincial for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s government has said it will not record the degree in journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. marriages because the federal government Country living only 20 minutes from downtown Portland. 3chn 1. Scott m e ▼ » e R r E A L i e ES TATE d a a I -------------1 too». 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