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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
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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. T he determination followed a decision
started his career as a radio reporter.
by the Korean Information and Com m unica
friendly approach of the [Israeli military] as an
example he would proudly use in his delibera
tions in the U .S. regarding a change in ...‘don’t
ask, don’t tell.’ "
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