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audi Arabia executed three men Jan. 1 in the
southwestern city of Ahha for engaging in
“the extreme obscenity and ugly acts of homosex
uality, marrying among themselves and molesting
the young," the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Officials said Ali bin Hittan bin S a ’id,
Mohammad bin Suleyman bin Mohammad and
Mohammad bin Khalil bin Abdullah violated
Islamic teachings. “The execution of these three
men is yet another gesture of defiance by the
Saudi Arabian government of international
standards which urge states not to impose the
death penalty for offenses with no lethal conse
quences,” Amnesty International commented.
More than 100 people were executed in
Saudi Arabia last year, including murderers,
rapists, drug traffickers, robbers, gays and apos
tates, according to reports. Last May, seven men
were decapitated with swords in the Red Sea
city of al-Kunfudah for gang-raping a man.
In 2000, six men were beheaded in Ahha for
allegedly engaging in sodomy, transvestism and
“homosexual marriage" and raping youths after
drugging them with sleeping pills. Also that year,
three men from neighboring Yemen were behead
ed in Jizan on charges of homosexuality, trans
vestism, same-sex marriage and luring boys into
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gay radio station that has broadcast off and
on since 1993 under a series of temporary
licenses was granted a permanent license Dec. 19
by the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
JOY Melbourne, which is operated by 160
volunteers, will broadcast full time on 94.9 FM
starting this month. “Full-time JOY is the best
Christmas present that the government could
have given our community,” station president
Carol Wilkinson said.
UKRAINE
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ctivists celebrated the 10-year anniversary
of the repeal of the natio*'’°
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in mid-December with a
cultural conference titled
"Our Rainbow."
Supporters
attended
from Belarus, Moldava, the
Netherlands, Russia, Swe
den and the United States.
Events took place at five
venues around Kiev, includ
ing the international press
center, a bookstore cafe, a
bar and a sauna, where men
and women sat together to
discuss gay culture, visibility
and human rights.
rerun its controversial instructional course
“Bondage 4 Beginners,” the Pink Paper reported.
The four-day class covers handcuffs, gags, rope
tying and negotiating safer sex.
“It helps men to make clear choices, and that
gives us a better chance of halting the transmis
sion of HIV,” spokesman Matthew Hodson said.
“Self-esteem and assertiveness improve men’s
abilities to negotiate safer sex.”
When the course first was offered in 1998,
Britain’s tabloid media had a field day, accusing
Gay Men Fighting A ID S of spending tax dollars
to teach homosexuality. The group also will be
offering sadomasochism and smoking cessation
classes this year.
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À hill to grant some spousal rights to gay
. ¿ V and unmarried straight couples will he
debated «Jan. 25 in Britain’s House of Lords,
the Telegraph reported.
Authored by Liberal Democrat Anthony
Lester, the measure would extend as-of-yet-unde-
fined legal rights and obligations to officially reg
istered couples. As a so-called Private Member’s
Bill, the proposal is unlikely to become law unless
the government throws its weight behind it.
T p o lice in a town near Liverpool
1 are cracking down on men
cruising for sex at the Gun Site pic
nic area in North Wirral Coastal
Park. The situation has gotten out
of control because of Internet sites
promoting the area, they said.
“The Gun Site is a lovely beau
ty spot and should he there to he
enjoyed by all the people of Wirral,
not by a minority who use it for
seedy activities,” City Councilor
Lesley Rennie said. “Many families
go down to the area, and occasion
ally children have been confronted
by shocking scenes. It would he
good to get some C C T V surveil
lance up there. This activity needs
to he stamped out for good.”
ritish actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne died of a
heart attack Dec. 26. He was 72.
Hawthorne had been battling pancreatic
cancer, hut recent chemotherapy treatments
had been considered successful, according to
British reports. He lived quietly in Hertford
shire in a 15th century manor house with his
lover, Trevor Bentham, according to the
Guardian.
Hawthorne was best known as civil ser
vant Sir Humphrey Appleby in the television
series Yes, Minister and for the film The M ad
ness of King George. He won a Tony in 1991
for Shadowlands, an Olivier award and several
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ritain’s Gay Men Fight Sir Nigel Hawthorne (left) co-starred with fellow gay actor Sir Ian
ing AIDS group will McKellen in 1995’s Richard III