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1 IWTîmneius “The sentiments expressed by the judiciary have been very liberal and progressive," Naz spokesman Shaleen Rakesh said. "The public debate in the media has also vocalized the opinion that two consenting adults should have the right to chcxise whom they love. Things are finally kxtking optimistic.” U N ITE D K IN G D O M o n r Officers said they nabbed nine callboys and two pimps. Nguyen Van Tuan and Truong Hoang Minh Tuan were charged with organizing prostitution and circulating obscene DVDs, videos and magazines. The nine alleged prosti tutes were sent to rehabili tation centers. The alleged pimps will face a judge, prosecutors said. ive of the M4 gay couples who have tied the knot S O U TH A FR IC A under Londons Partnership ^ outh Africa’s Pan- Register since it was Janet Jackson is being boycotted African HIV/A1DS launched a year ago have for recording a duet with anti-gay Treatment Access Move deregistered, the Independent musician Beenie Man ment has targeted Coca- reported Sept. 3. Cola, demanding Africa’s The paper said the partnership failure rate, largest employer provide anti-HIV drugs to all 1.6 percent, is nearly the same as for heterosex infected employees, Business Day reported ual marriages in the first year— 1.3 percent. Aug. 26. Unlike many European nations where registered The group has set Oct. 17 as a “global day of gay couples have most rights of marriage, very action” against the corporation. Some other few benefits are granted by London’s gay registry South African companies, including mining other than symbolic recognition by Mayor Ken giants Anglo American, Anglo Gold and De Livingstone. Beers, reportedly provide the drugs. Coke “has enjoyed a rapidly growing market, decades of escalating profit and low labor costs bout two-thirds of the United Kingdom’s in Africa [but] refuses to pay for HIV treatment Anglican priests oppose the ordination of for the bulk of its workers,” the movement said. gay priests who refuse to be celibate, a new sur T he corporation reportedly provides AIDS vey found. T he poll of some 2,000 priests was drugs to administrative staff but not to lower- carried out by C hristian Research and the con level employees. servative organization Cost of Conscience. Rowan Williams, the incoming archbishop B R AZIL J of Canterbury and leader of the worldwide he Brazilian government has recognized a Anglican Com m union, which includes the lesbian couple for immigration purposes, Episcopal C hurch in the United States, has a activists reported Aug. 27. history of knowingly ordaining noncelibate gay The French/Brazilian couple met in France priests. But shortly after his selection, he and were “married” there under France’s civil promised he would not impose his unions law, which grants nearly all “personal theories” or a gay “mani rights and obligations of marriage. festo of his own devising” on the rest T he Brazilian woman then was of the church. granted French residency. Some gay Anglican activists have W hen the couple decided to denounced Williams for allegedly move to Brazil, their relationship caving in to reactionary elements in was recognized, after prolonged the church and ignoring his personal wrangling, by a 17-judge panel based conscience on the matter. on the principle of international rec- iprix:ity, the activists reported. “This is important for us because it brings M arta Donayre eorge Michael pulled out of a to light that reciprocity laws are British Broadcasting Corp. documentary important,” said Marta Donayre, who works after learning prcxlucers planned to revisit his with the San Francisco-based National Center 1998 arrest for masturbating with a cop in a Los for Lesbian Rights. Angeles park toilet. The filmmakers planned to B O LIV IA follow him and his lover, Kenny Goss, for four months, chronicling their lives in the wake of heat and arrested 12 members of a film the pop star’s controversial new record, “Sh<x)t crew from the La Paz lesbian organization the Dog.” Mujeres C reando (W omen C reating) and Among much else, the video portrays Presi charged them with “obscene acts” and “obscene performances" Aug. 15. Nine of the arrestees dent Bush as an imbecile and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as his obedient dog. A dif were male actors who were performing nude ferent scene shows them as boyfriends. during the 11:30 a.m. shoot on a public street. Michael was strongly denounced in some T he crew was working on an installment of a U.S. media outlets because of the record’s con television series about sexuality. Bystanders were tent and vowed to stay abroad for a time out of forced to disperse with tear gas. fear he would be physically attacked in the “Police officers who disrupted the filming violated the participants’ right to freedom of United States. expression, protected by the Bolivian Constitu tio n .. .and by international human rights instru ments Bolivia has ratified, such as the Universal he British gay group OutRage! wants an Declaration of Human Rights, the Internation apology from pop music star Janet Jackson al Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and and is urging gays to boycott her. They are upset the American Convention on Human Rights," that she has recorded a duet, “Feel It Boy," with the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Jamaica’s Beenie Man, whose other songs have Commission said. in overtly advexated murdering homosexuals. Oregon Ballet Theatre F S: Degas Impressions Trois Gnossiennes Up Neon Glass Equinoxe cq (charmed quark) and one new work . 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