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lesbian was elected May 13 to the Italian
Senate. Titti De Simone, 31, is a member
of the left-wing Communist Refoundation Party
and the leader of the gay rights organization
ArciLesbica.
She plans to push for measures that would
extend spousal rights to same-sex couples,
including access to reproductive technology and
adoption. “This is an important result for the
movement, a signal of innovation in politics
and a response to the advance of the right,” De
Simone told the Rome daily newspaper La
Repubblica.
According to RainbowNetwork.com, two
gay men, Nichi Vendola and Franco Grillini,
also were elected to Parliament. The Internet
site did not provide details.
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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.
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Cairo Times, police
were abusive. A profes-
sor at Cairo University’s
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Faculty of Medicine said
he was slapped repeatedly
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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.”
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Overall, Italy took a swing to the far right
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ealth officials are blanketing Toronto’s gay
scene with meningitis alerts after two men
who frequented gay bathhouses and bars died of
the disease last month.
Meningococcal meningitis is spread via sali
va and nose and throat secretions. It can he
transmitted by kissing and by sharing silverware,
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uslim clerics in the Netherlands might face
criminal prosecution for saying hateful
things about sexual minorities. 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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