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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. He has a
campaign, he says.
bachelor’s degree
Officers guarded his home for two days
in
journalism
after the bombing but since have left it
from Drake Uni
unprotected, according to the International
versity and started
Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.
his career as a
The organization fears "new attacks might
radio reporter.
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