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According to RainbowNetwork.com, two gay men, Nichi Vendola and Franco Grillini, also were elected to Parliament. The Internet site did not provide details. A • Wrongful Death • Defective Products A ITALY • Medical Malpractice • Pain & Suffering 12th Floor 621 SW Morrison Portland p oi Y i a i A • Bicycle & Pedestrian Accidents t least 55 people were arrested May 10 dur ing a police raid on a Cairo discotheque frequented by gay men. They remain in custody, charged with “Satanism,” “belittling revealed religions” and “exploiting religion to promote extreme ideas to create strife.” The 2 a.m. raid took place a t the Queen Boat club, which is on a ship anchored in the Nile River. _ According to the Cairo Times, police were abusive. A profes- sor at Cairo University’s pT Faculty of Medicine said he was slapped repeatedly \ Q b P and disparaged with anti- gay The crimes the men are charged with carry a maxi mum sentence of five years in prison. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission says it has reason to believe they “are being tortured while in deten tion” and has confirmed they were examined with probes purportedly to determined if they had engaged in anal sex. “They have been the subject of intense vilifi cation in the Egyptian press, promoting fears of both religious dissent and foreign influences,” the group added. “IGLHRC is gravely concerned that these men are victims of trumped-up charges and of a government determined to improve its own political position by taking sexual nonconformity as the sign of a subversive cult.” I • free Estimates l »free Installation • 90 days some as cosh one Serving Oregon & SW Washington C all N o w ! 503-590-4333 Salem 503-362-1643 T r ip T itti D e S im o n e Overall, Italy took a swing to the far right with the election of Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition government. Some of its parties, including the Northern League and the Alleanza Nazionale, are overtly anti-gay. 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Prime Minister Wim Kok has called the comments “very serious and extraordinarily hurtful,” and prosecutors are looking into charging them with discrimi nation or defam ation, which carries a one- year prison sentence. “ T h e y must be con scious of the norms and val ues that are fixed in Dutch law,” he said. “W ith their words, the imams could intentionally or unintentionally incite vio W im K ok lence against homosexuals.” T he clerics have called homosexuality a sickness that could destroy society. One labeled it “shame less, improper, scandalous and intolerable”; another said sexual minorities must be treated medically. he Asian condoms that the South African government distributes are too small for African penises, a national study of 350 prosti tutes has found. “Most [prostitutes] complained that these things break because they come from the Far East and they’re too small for local men,” U ni versity of Natal researcher Ted Leggett told the Sunday Tmes. One in nine South Africans is HIV-positive, officials estimate. T fa Interest Rates are G REA T! Inventory's Low. A total of 55 percent of Canadians think gay couples should be allowed to get married, a Environics Research Group poll has found, the National Post reported May 10. About 41 percent oppose gay marriage, and 4 percent have no opinion. Support jumps to 73 per cent among people between 18 and 29 years old. Support for gay marriage is highest in Que bec (69 percent) and British Columbia (60 per cent) and lowest in Saskatchewan and Alberta (43 percent). The survey questioned 2,035 adults and is accurate within 2.2 percentage points 19 times out of 20, the pollsters said. SOUTH AFRICA www.budgetblinds.com K im drinking glasses or anything else that comes in contact with the mouth, such as a cigarette. Symptoms of infection include fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck, rash, drowsiness, confusion, convulsions and seizures. The men’s identities were not released, but one was known to be a regular customer at the gay bar Woody’s. “Both of these two men were very active in gay bars and bathhouses," Toronto Public Health spokesman Elizabeth Rea told the Toron to Sun. “If you were at a Toronto bathhouse or nightclub and you had saliva contact, you need to see a physician.” GERMANY esbian French tennis pro Amelie Mauresmo has won her fourth tournament this year— the German Open— and now is ranked sixth in the world, Reuters reported May 15. She has recorded 27 wins in 29 matches this year. Mauresmo no longer is partnered with Sylvie Bourdon, the lover with whom she made international headlines when she came out in 1999. “I am playing well now because I’m not stressed and I have a good life," she told reporters in Berlin. L
