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1 nTïïTTflneivs MEXICO ity and state police raided several gay bars in downtown Aguascalientes the first week end in April and arrested 38 people on prostitu tion charges. According to the International Gay &. Lesbian Human Rights Commission, offi cers beat gay activists Cesar Froilan Gonzalez and Ernesto Martinez dur ing a raid of El Morbo. Mayor Ricardo Mag- daleno Rodriguez re portedly has announced he is ready to “fight all the Ricardo Magdaleno faggots in Aguasca Rodriguez lientes,” “push the gay bars out of town” and “arrest anyone with homosexu al appearance” caught walking down Lopez Mateos Avenue, a main thoroughfare. The state of Aguascalientes is one of only a few locales in Mexico where discrimination based on sexual orientation is banned by law. C INDIA ndian gay activist Nishat Saran, 26, was killed in a car accident April 24 in New Delhi. He was best known for three films he made— Fifty-Fifty , Summer m My Veins and Perfect Day. Four other people in the same car also died, including Channel V VJ Pooja Mukerji, 20. I UNITED KINGDOM street preacher in Bournemouth, England, was fined about $1,011 April 24 for harassing gays in his sermons. A gay man had filed a complaint against the Rev. Harry Ham mond, 69, saying his preaching incited anti-gay violence. A countries, Brazil gets put in first place, followed by Mexico, with a yearly average of 35 homi cides of homosexuals, and the United States, with a yearly average of 25,” said President Luiz Mott, author of the study and an anthropology professor at Federal University of Bahia. A total of 88 of the victims were gay men, 41 were trans people, and three were lesbians. “Brazil is the world champion in murders of homosexu als, having registered between the years 1980 and 2001 a total of 2,092 such murders— an average of 104 deaths per year,” Mott said. In 2001, the most murders occurred in Sao Paulo state (24) followed by Pernambuco (16), Bahia (14) and the Federal District (11). Less than 20 percent of the murderers have been caught, the report said. PERU T ay activists in Peru are pushing for protec- $ tions against discrimination in a revamp of the nation’s constitution that is under way. The Right to Be Different Front is seeking support from other nations. C TAIWAN aiwan’s defense minister lifted a ban on gay military police officers May 2, just days after the Military Police Command acknowl edged its existence. The official change of heart followed a rare street protest by dozens of gay activists. The pol icy stated that people with “sexual orientation impairment” cause inconvenience in “managing and meeting the needs” of the job. “We don’t remember when the rule was for mulated,” a police spokesman said, “but we are certain that sexual orientation impairment was considered a mental illness at the time. 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Its current force do not ban gays. function is to print any material needed for public administration, including material for universities. INTERNATIONAL he International Lesbian & Gay Associa tion was denied reinstatement of its con he president of the gay group Habeas Cor sultative status April 30 at the U.N. Economic pus Potiguar in Natal, Rio Grande do and Social Council when the full council Norte, received a death threat issued in the upheld a Jan. 23 decision by its Committee on name of the well-known White Hand death Non-Governmental Organizations. The vote squad April 27. was 17-29 with seven abstentions. The International Gay & Lesbian Human Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands Rights Commission said the note referenced Jose Dantas’ advocacy on behalf of the city’s transves and the United States strongly fought for tite sex workers, who suffer high rates of discrim ILGA’s inclusion, while Egypt lobbied Arab, Muslim and Catholic nations to reject the ination and murder. 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