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I must live with my convic tions. . .and my career has never been the most important thing to me.” Delanoe works out, enjoys soccer, smokes Gay Paree Mayor Bertrand Delanoe and (inset) cigars and likes to stroll in the city. “With an openly gay mayor [and] gays and City Councilor Camille Cabral lesbians dancing to ‘I Will Survive’ under a rain bow flag in front of City Hall. ..some are having LER AN O N a hard time believing their eyes and ears,” case that started when Lebanon’s Internal Gay.com France editor Olivier Monnot wrote. Security Force attempted to find out who “Sunday night was a taste of something never owned GayLehanon.com has ended with fines of seen before.” $219 each for Kamal Batal, director of the In addition, Paris elected a transgendered human rights organization Multi-Initiative on Rights: Search, Assist, Defend, and Ziad woman to the City Council. Camille Cabral won the seat for the 17th arrondissement. She is Mughraby, owner of the local Internet service the first known transgendered person elected to provider Destination. They were convicted of violating Article 157 of the Military Penal G xle, public office in France. “This is historic for the transgender communi which bans defamation of the army or the flag. ty,” Cabral told Gay.com France. “But I don’t put Batal and Mughraby allegedly tarnished the my sexual identity first. Above all, I am a citizen." reputation of the vice squad by distributing a printed flier. They deny the allegation and think U N ITE D K IN G D O M the document in question was a printout of an former speaker of Britain’s House of Com e-mail the organization sent its members after mons, the late George Thomas, was secret police visited Destination and demanded the ly gay, former Labour MP Leo Abse says in a new names of the owners of GayLebanon.com, which, book titled Tony Blair: The Man Behind the Smile. it turned out, was not hosted by Destination or A very popular British political figure, any other Lebanon-based Internet provider. Thomas was speaker from 1976 to 1983. He died in 1997 at age 88. S C O TLA N D According to the book, Thomas was black n Edinburgh man who infected his girl mailed repeatedly by people threatening to friend with HIV while aware of his own expose his homosexuality, and Abse helped pay HIV status was jailed for five years March 16 for off some of the blackmailers. ✓ culpable and reckless conduct. Stephen Kelly, 33, learned he was HIV-positive in 1993, then had ISR AEL unsafe sex with his girlfriend six months later. he Israeli High Court of Justice overturned “She has suffered several years of serious ill a rabbinical court ruling March 19 pro ness, and her life expectancy has been seriously hibiting a lesbian from seeing her children from reduced,” judge Lord Mackay said in handing a previous heterosexual marriage if her female down the sentence. lover was present. 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