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[WîTïïïïlnews Auto, Home, Life & Business "Your Independent Insurance Agency" tions Ethics Committee to classify homosexu ality as “obscenity and perversion” in its “C ri teria for Indecent Internet Sites." Activists trace that definition to a 1997 law classifying descriptions o f “homosexual love” as “harmful to youth.” Since the introduction of the Internet C ontent Filtering Ordi nance last July, more than 12,000 Web sites, including several gay ones, have been blocked, deleted or shut down. T he large gay site Ivancity.com was turned off by its service provider without any notice or request for content mod ification. Gay online clubs at two of Korea’s biggest Web portals also were deleted, reportedly on orders from the committee. T he embassy said two of the murdered foreigners visited A total of 15 gay groups filed the Chameleon nightclub suit Jan. 9 against the government, claiming the clampdown violates constitution R U S S IA al guarantees of freedom of expression, speech he U.S. Embassy in Moscow is urging gay and press. Americans to he careful in the city follow “T he government has no right to deter ing eight recent murders of men who frequented mine people’s sexual orientation,” said Im gay bars. Officials particularly cited the gay bar | Tae-Hun of the Lesbian and Gay Alliance Against Discrimination in Korea. “Even if we Kazarma, which is inside the straight club Chameleon. "We believe we may have uncov I don’t stand a chance of winning the case, we will take the case to international human ered a disturbing pattern of murders of foreign rights organizations to call international gay men in Moscow,” the embassy said. attention to this issue.” T he dead men include British television producer Christopher Rees, U .S. teacher IN D IA Steve M alcom, Australian petrochem ical wo gay judges visiting from overseas pro consultant Thomas Nagy-Bachman, German moted gay rights Jan. 8 in Mumbai, the chef Heinrich-Helmut Kurth and four Russian Times o f India reported. Australian Justice men. Rees, Malcom and Nagy-Bachman were M ichael Kirby and South African Justice killed in their apartments, Kurth on the street. Edwin Cameron told a conference that con “To the best of my knowledge all the murders vincing the media to include gay characters on were connected to Kazarma,” Gay.ru editor television entertainment programs could be an Nikita Ivanov told the Moscow Times. “It is an important goal. inherently dangerous place. The kind of people “We need to blow away that spell cast on who congregate there are like hustlers, male people to keep quiet about their sexual identi prostitutes from the provinces and bad neigh ties,” Kirby said. “We had a program featuring borhoods of Moscow. My suspicion is that the gays in Australia, and believe me, it did more motive behind these crimes is economic. for furthering the community’s cause than any They’re committed by some poor boy from the thing else.” provinces who has ended up in Moscow a crim Kirby is a member of Australia’s High Court. inal and prostituting himself.” Cameron, who sits on South Africa’s Supreme Cham eleon’s financial manager, Tamara Court of Appeal, revealed in 1999 he is HIV Zhikhareva, told the newspaper the club is safe. positive. “All clients have to pass through strict face and passport control,” she said. "As for the for R R AZIL eigners. . .our guards keep an eye on them so that Tassia Eller’s lover was granted temporary nobody extorts money from them.” ^custody of the late rock star’s 8-year-old son Ivanov challenged that statement, charging Jan. 8, Reuters reported. Gay campaigners that the club’s security guards actually point out cheered the decision by a Rio foreigners to the criminals de Janeiro court— the first who prey on them. such ruling in the nation’s Russian police believe history. that the deaths are not relat Eller, who had been ed and that no serial killer is with Eguenia Vieira for 14 on the loose. “These were years, died of an apparent ordinary murders,” said Svet drug overdose in December, lana Baskakova of the G en the wire service said. The eral Prosecutor’s Office. father, musician Tavinho Fialho, died in a car crash S O U TH KO R EA when she was pregnant he government has de with the boy. manded South Korea’s The judge also granted oldest and biggest gay W eb Vieira inheritance rights to site, Exzone.com, label it Eller’s money and copyrights. self as “harmful” and pre “The case represents a vent access by young peo change in the ideology dom ple. Failure th follow the inant in Brazil...away from order will result in a Cassia Eller the right of bkxxl to the right $10,(XX) fine and a two-year of the heart,” said Luiz Mott of the Bahia Gay prison sentence for the owner, officials said. Group, j n T he Ministry of Information and Com m u nications enacted an Internet content rating Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported system last year classifying gay W eb sites as for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's “harmful media” that must be blocked from degree in journalism from Drake University and youth. 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