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^ 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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CANADA
ens of thousands of Canadians could have
I received HIV-negative test results that are
wrong, 365Gay.com reported May 3.
Health Canada has determined that
BioChem ImmunoSystems’ rapid HIV test is
not reliable. The fast results were given less than
an hour after the patients’ fingers were pricked
and their blood was placed on a strip of chemi
cally treated paper.
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NEW ZEALAND
P
olice want men at the Bay of Plenty nudist
beach to cease their inappropriate frolicking
and have begun arresting some of them.
“It’s quite obvious these guys are not just
going down there to sunbathe in the nude,”
Detective Senior Sgt. 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.”
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ITALY
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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.
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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
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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
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