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bout 4,000 people marched in Jerusalem’s first
Gay Pride parade June 7, police estimated.
Some protesters turned out as well, most of
them ultra-Orthodox Haredim. A few stink
bombs were set off.
The city government refused to help pay for
the parade but was ordered by the High Court
of Justice to hang flags and balloons from lamp-
posts and to provide security. “Not an agora of
city money is being spent on those sickos, and
the logistical support is from private donations,”
declared City Councilor Eli Smaheyof, Munici
pal Finance Committee chairman.
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S O U TH A F R IC A
P
eter Marais, premier of the Western Cape
province, where Cape Town is located,
quit May 31 amid multiple sexual harassment
charges. He claims innocence, saying white
women don’t understand that mixed-race
people greet each other with kisses and hugs
and accusing gay activists from another polit
ical party of provoking them into making the
allegations to retaliate for his homophobic
statements.
Two of the people pressing charges, however,
are themselves biracial. Marais says he welcomes
the chance to defend himself in court.
their trial in Novem
ber.
Human
rights
activists, including
Amnesty
Interna
tional, denounced
the charges as fabri
cated and accused
Egyptian authorities
of mounting an anti
gay witch hunt.
Since
November,
Egypt reportedly has
imprisoned scores of
other men for alleged
homosexual conduct, and new arrests have been
reported regularly.
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preacher in Riga was relieved of his duties
May 23 just 30 minutes after coming out
on a Radio Free Europe broadcast. The Rev.
Maris Sants, Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Christ pastor, told listeners the church refuses to
try to understand gay people.
“I am only sorry for my congregation,” he
said afterward. “I fear that it will suffer the great
est damage.”
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rime Minister Helen Clark has issued a
blanket apology to gay men and lesbians for
the discrimination they have suffered at the
hands of the government through the years.
“It’s been disgraceful,” she told the gay news
paper Express. “People have put up with the
most appalling discrimination, stereotyping,
people have been criminalized.”
Clark offered “my personal apology...on
behalf of the government.”
TH E P H IL IP P IN E S
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ne of the Philippines’ senior-most Catholic
bishops has no problem with gay priests as
long as they don’t have sex. “Homosexuality as
an orientation is not sinful,” Sorsogon Bishop
Jesus Varela said.
In the wake of the ongoing child abuse scan
dal, some U.S. bishops have called for a ban on
gay priests even if they’re celibate.
EGYPT
he Federation of German Scout Organiza
tions and the Union of German Girl Guide
Associations denounced the Boy Scouts of
America for its treatment of gays May 24. U.S.
policy states that “an avowed homosexual can
not serve as a role model for the traditional val
ues espoused in the Scout Oath and Law."
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ome Secretary David Blunkett approved
funding May 27 for the national Lesbian
and Gay Police Association.
Britain has 650 openly gay cops. Another
15,000 officers are not openly gay, the associa
tion estimates.
“Funding was granted because LA GPA
were able to show that they are contributing
to the home secretary’s aims for the police
service,” the Home Office said. “This funding
will enable LA G PA to operate on an equal
footing with other minority staff associations
such as the National Black Police A ssocia
tion and the British Association of Women
Police.”
The group will lobby for pension rights for
same-sex couples and arrange events to support
openly gay cops, leaders said. JF1
resident Hosni Mubarak has annulled the
1 convictions of 21 men sent to prison for
“habitual practice of debauchery”— coded lan
guage for gay sex.
At the same time, he confirmed the convic
tions of two other men jailed as a result of the Compiled by REX WOCKNER, who has reported for
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journalism from Drake University and started his
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career as a radio reporter.
Mubarak said the 21 people (and 29 others
who were acquitted)
should not have been
tried in the Emer
gency State Security
Court, which was set
up to handle suspect
ed terrorists. Prosecu
tors will determine
whether any of the 50
men should he retried
in regular court, he
added.
The "Cairo 52”
were arrested May 11,
2001, during a raid on
the gay-frequented
Queen Boat disco
theque and on subse
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locations around the
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