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20 J * * » M t * September 20.2002 I't u iio in e w s C H IN S ber Gay Games in Sydney. Sev hina’s most well-known AIDS eral sports are still accepting activist has been arrested and competitors: field hockey, ice jailed, charged with revealing state hockey, netball, marathon, secrets. men’s billiards, judo, aerobics, triathlon and some track and A ID S Action Project head field events. Wan Yanhai faces prosecution for widely e-mailing a leaked report on A few participatory cultural events also are still open, includ thousands of farmers in the Henan ing draw inspiration, open stage, province who were infected with HIV after selling their blixxl to writing for performance, poetry slam, concert/marching hands, unsanitary, government-sanctioned collectors between the late 1980s bridge, chess and vidai games. and mid-1990s. He has said up to 2 Organizers are waiving late regis million people might have been Wan Yanhai tration fees. infected in similar circumstances. “It’s now clear we will reach “What my husband did is g«xxl for his country, 13,000 participants, which hy anyone’s standard his people and AIDS prevention in China," Wans is an outstandingly successful number. We can wife, Ivy Su, s:)id Sept. 5. “He is a very intelligent, say unequivocally that Sydney 2002 is on rational scholar. I believe that in the fight against track— financially and logistically— and partici AIDS, the government is not enough. [Non pants and spectators should expect the time of governmental organizations] and volunteers and their lives,” co-chairman Peter Bailey said. community-level work cannot be ignored." Singer k.d. lang and Maude television actress Bea Arthur will appear at the opening cere HUNGARY monies of the games Nov. 2. “I’ve waited a long ungary’s Constitutional Q uirt on Sept. 4 time to participate in the Gay Games," lang said in a statement. equalized the age of consent for gay and straight sex at 14. Gay sex was previously illegal until age 18. The move is, in no small part, a response to he assets of Sydney’s famous Gay and Les demands made by the European Union, which bian Mardi Gras celebration have been put forbids members from discriminating against up for sale. gays. The EU recently persuaded Cyprus to Included are floats, costumes, props, equip equalize its age of consent, tcxx ment and the organization’s trademark. The group’s bankruptcy administrator says members "The criminal a x le discriminated against homosexuals in an arbitrary and objectively of the hoard of directors might end up personal ly responsible for its hundreds of thousands of unjustifiable way," the court said in its verdict. dollars of debt. The judges reportedly also deleted some passages in the statute that labeled gay sex “lewdness against the order of nature.” IN D IA In 1995, the Constitutional Quirt extended lton John will perform in the southern city the rights and obligations that apply to unmarried of Bangalore in November. It is the first opposite-sex couples to cover same-sex couples as time he has kxiked a concert in India. well, creating a kind of common-law gay marriage. “I’m way beyond excited," John said, according to PopMusic.com. “It’s a whole new experience for According to the International Lesbian «Si Gay Association, Hungary must repeal one me, and I’m thrilled to finally do this and hang out additional law to join the EU. It prevents people with the many beauties they have there.” younger than 18 from joining gay rights groups. “The Gmstitutional Q uirt’s ruling is a great and long-overdue victory for Hungary’s LGBT ctivists told the Times o f India Sept. 4 that movement,” said Ailsa Spindler, executive direc they expect the government to legalize gay tor of ILGA’s European division. “The Hungari sex later this year. 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