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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 2002)
jura 7.2002 * l'in ¡im m e w s Everybody needs a little help sometimes Sincere, Confidential Support ening to reveal the vic tim’s sexual orientation while demanding that he turn over his wallet or ATM cards.” Self-esteem • Spiritual Exploration • Anxiety Family Patterns • C o m in g O u t • Alcoholism d>oul Tending * 3 <*. -i ? l 'âÊkJÊ Marie Nishchala Lassell * C lin ical Hypnotherapist/Clairvoyant 503-888-SOUL (7685) • Convenient NW Location UNITED KINGDOM ^ ontroversial British activist Peter Tatchell will travel to Memphis, Tenn., to confront hexing legend Mike Tyson at his train ing camp prior to the big June 8 fight with A British activist is upset about Mike Tyson s (right) homophobic heavyweight champion taunts against Lennox Lewis Lennox Lewis. “I’m de claims— say he sexually harassed them, which he manding, in the strongest terms, that Tyson has denied. He insists they do not understand stops his homophobic taunts against Lennox how nonwhites demonstrate affection. Lewis,” he told the Daily Telegraph. They “clearly did not understand [mixed-race] In January Tyson reportedly said: “I’ll fuck and black culture, where it was common practice you in the ass. You flicking faggot. I’ll fuck you in the ass till you love me, you faggot,” accord to hug and kiss people on the cheek,” Marais told the Dis patch newspaper. “Afrikaners [white South ing to London’s Mirror. Africans of Dutch descent] are used to greeting each other from a distance and by pressing each ngland’s Prison Service has extended family other’s hand very hard. These things happened in 1994, and it was a cultural adjustment. To use ^ rights to the partners of gay prisoners, the that now and say it had sexual connotations is Independent reported May 14. Gay partners are mischievous and plain sleaze.” allowed spousal visits with their imprisoned lovers After gay groups denounced Marais’ allega and, in a case where both partners are jailed in tion that activists provoked the women’s accu separate prisons, can request “interprison visits.” The national association for former offend sations, he told reporters: “I acknowledge our homosexual community as part of the colorful ers, Unlock, praised the move. “Prisoners who rainbow nation of the Western Cape and leave prison and return to a stable relationship, whether with a same-sex or opposite-sex part South Africa. I respect the constitution and the rights it gives to all individuals and minor ner, are five times less likely to reoffend, and so ity groups.” maintenance of those relationships in prison is South Africa’s constitution is one of only a of great importance,” chief executive Mark handful in the world that ban discrimination Leech told the newspaper. based on sexual orientation. 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Karl Wright St. Clair said. “I think what’s happened now is that it’s a bit of a cruising area for gays.” The co-owner of the nearby Chromazones Cruise Club for gay men, Grant Marx, told the New Zealand Herald the beach has been a pickup spot for 30 years and “no one really worried about it, hut now all the houses have been built around it and families have started to go down there, [so] it’s become a hot topic.” SOUTH A FR IC A T ITALY < he premier of the Western Cape province, where Cape Town is located, says gay activists are trying to destroy him because of his religious beliefs. “They want to attack my image as a Christian by attaching sleaze to me so that this will make my argument against homosexuals less credi ble,” Peter Marais said May 11. Several older white women— egged on by gay activists, he Peter Marais atellite television viewers in Europe have their first gay channel, broadcasting from Milan in Italian. Gay.tv took to the airwaves May 6 with three years of funding from the Dutch venture capi talist company Corill. The programming is pro vided by Xat Productions. The Agence France-Presse wire service said that up to 15 percent of Italians are gay and that 14 percent of Italians have satellite television. cWestside' storisi/ W e deliver worldwide Sam e day local delivery (503) 642-9992 1-800-356-1884 POLAND bout 2,000 people participated May 1 in Warsaw’s Equality Parade. The march began at the Copernicus mon ument and ended at Castle Square in Old Town. Participants called on the Catholic Church to recant its anti-gay teachings and urged the government to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and support equal rights for all. A small group of right-wing extremists tried to disrupt the parade but was thwarted by police. The queer marchers were joined by sizable contingents of feminists, social ists and anarchists. “The parade was really a big success in Poland, where the gay and lesbian movement is not so powerful," said Kris Garwatow- ski, editor of the gay magazine Nowy Men. JH A Compiled by R ex W OCKNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1 985 . He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. Don Duncan owner Teleflora Aloha Market Centre 20455 SW TV Highway www.westsideflorist.com Exstream Landscaping 503 788-7906 - Creative Landscape Design Ponds & Waterfalls Fencing • Decks • Patios Sprinkler Systems Retaining Walls Lawns • Sod & Seed Proudly Serving the GLBTCommunity pM n T ST T iT T w S ft.RÜ.'lto Aäsocunoiw^ LCB# 7094 Bonded & Insured Oregon & Washington
