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“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.”
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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
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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.
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Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported for
the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's degree
in journalism from Drake University and started his
career as a radio reporter.
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