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aprit 5.2002 » 23 i'iijM i'in e w s social views of Muslim immigrants. “I would simply say, ‘No more Muslims can come in!’ ” he said. "Islam is...a backward culture.” Dutch Muslim clerics were threatened with criminal prosecu tion last year for calling homosexual ity a “shameless,” “scandalous,” “intolerable” “sickness” that “could destroy society.” Prime Minister Wim Kok denounced their remarks as “very serious and extraordinarily hurtful." Fortuyn, 54, has a shaved head, smokes cigars and travels in a luxury car with his dogs. His Web site says: Pim Fortuyn “His lifestyle is noble, his thinking utterly nonconformist, he is a romantic at activists to pressure police to investigate the heart. Literature and ideals, fury and doubt, crimes and ensure Velandia’s safety. hedonism and compassion: Pirn Fortuyn is a S P A IN multicultural country all by himself. Aesthete he Catholic priest who came out as gay and grassroots democrat. Privileged child and and noncelihate in February and prompt desperado. Dadaist with a gladiator’s head. ly was relieved of his duties isn’t about to shut Rebel with a cause.” up and go away. Father José Mantero, who served in Valverde del Camino in the Huelva HONDURAS olice in Honduras’ second-largest city, San province, now says Pope Paul VI was gay—“a Pedro Sula, raided and closed its only gay great queer.” “And when 1 say that 1 mean it with respect,” bar, Boys, shortly after President Ricardo Maduro took office Jan. 27, correspondent he told Britain’s the Guardian. “He was also a great pope.” Richard Stem reports. The Vatican is horrified. “A septic boil has The crackdown is part of the new leader’s “zero tolerance for crime and delinquency” appeared on the face of the Spanish church and program, which has been embraced by Mayor covered it with pus," said Cardinal Dario Castril- Oscar Kilgore, who also ordered the arrest of lon, prefect for the Congregation of the Clergy. any “transvestites and effem M OLDOVA inate-looking people” who ‘he first Moldovan Gay cross the railroad tracks sep Pride celebration is arating the south side from planned for April 26 to 28 in downtown. “We are picked Chisinau, capital of the former up in police cars and taken Soviet republic. away from the center of the “The program will combine city and told that we cannot social and cultural events: exhi return,” said Marlene, a 24- bitions, seminars, movie show year-old transvestite sex ings, concerts, shows,” organiz worker. ers said. "Our special guest to the event will he Tasso Stafil- UGANDA idis, the only openly gay mem resident Yoweri Muse ber of the Swedish Parliament.” veni told the Common wealth Heads of Govern M EXICO ment Meeting in Australia i n Argentine movie por- that Uganda has no homo  \ . traying Barbie as a lesbian sexuals. He made the remark was banned March 9 in Mexi while accepting an award Yoweri Museveni co City. It was scheduled for a March 3 honoring govern ment programs that dramatically have film festival, hut toy company Mattel got a court injunction to block the screening. reduced the nation’s HIV infection rate. “This is a pornographic video,” lawyer Pablo “First, |H1V| goes through unprotected Vasquez Rohde said. “They won’t he allowed to sex,” Museveni said. “We don’t have homo sexuals in Uganda, so this is mainly hetero show it here." Barbie Gets Sad Too reportedly depicts the sexual transmission.” Museveni previously has acknowledged doll having sex with her Latina servant. Mexico City Urban-Fest director the nation’s gays and denounced them. In José Antonio Escalante 1999, speaking to Parliament about how said he is surprised by homosexuals are treated in Uganda’s Ankole the brouhaha because region, he said: “These few individuals were the movie screened either ignored or speared and killed by their in Argentina with- parents. They wouldn’t just go and wed [ out incident and another man publicly." even was televised in Brazil. j n C O L O M B IA H r he home of an openly gay candidate for Compiled by R ex 1. Parliament was bombed with a hand W O C K N E R , who grenade March 1, resulting in extensive prop has reported for the erty damage. Manuel Velandia Mora also gay press since received numerous death threats during the 1985. 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