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IWOTH news Safe Schools for All! Do you want to make a difference in schools? We’re looking for volunteers. Call & find out how you can promote change. additional funding from Gaydar.com. “Gaydar are our major sponsors, but compared to the amount of money television should cost, our budget is about a 20th of what it should be," Payne said. Oregon www. glsenOregon. org Gay, Lasbian and Straight Education Network 5 0 3 525-1 177 - LINNTON FEED & SEED S O U TH A F R IC A housands of people parad ed Sept. 28 through South Africans celebrate Gay Pride on Sept. 28 in Johannesburg the upscale district CANADA of Rosebank in Johannesburg during the city’s C an ada’s national gay cable network lost 12th Gay Pride. Marchers said it felt like a quan ✓ $ 1.39 million last quarter, has reduced its tum leap from the 1990 event in the now pre staff from 25 to nine and has axed most of its dominantly black Hillbrow neighborhood, original program ming, Toronto’s Xtra! ■ when some participants wore paper bags on reports. their heads to avoid outing themselves. Canceled are PrideVision’s flagship news show, Shout; the call-in show Under Covers; IN T E R N A T IO N A L Urban Fitness; and the travel show Bump. Two oca-Cola said Sept. 26 it will provide anti- HIV drugs to employees in Africa, includ original programs remain: the comedy Locker ing up to 60,000 people who work for indepen Room and the talk show Jawbreaker. In the United States, Viacom, Showtime dent bottling companies. Only about 1,500 and M TV are preparing to launch a full-time upper-level workers directly employed by Coke gay cable network. Xtra! said the U .S. effort previously were eligible for the coverage. likely has deeper pockets than PrideVision, The cost will be split 50-50 by the Coca-Cola which is owned by Canada’s Headline Media Africa Foundation and the local bottlers. Spous Group. es will be covered as well, but children will not. A ID S activists were unimpressed with the EGYPT announcement. They staged protests against the T* our Cairo men convicted in February of corporation Oct. 17, demanding it fund HIV engaging in consensual gay sex were acquit treatment for all workers worldwide. ted on appeal in September because of lack of “Cokes plans will be implemented too slowly, and.. .the framework will only suit the largest bot evidence. The “Boulak 4” had remained jailed tlers— leaving the majority of workers in the hard since they were arrested Nov. 10, 2001. “Their acquittal may signal Egypt’s response est-hit regions and the smaller bottlers behind,” to mounting U.N. criticism of the treatment of A C T UP/New York, A C T UP/Philadelphia and Health G A P said in a joint statement. “The com homosexuals in that country," the International pany [hides] behind its labyrinthine African fran Gay &. Lesbian Human Rights Commission said. “These men were unjustly arrested, tor chise system to resist covering its total work force, tured and convicted.” which totaled 100,000 workers at the time of the IG LH RC’s Scott Long added: “It is too early announcement. [This] announced initiative will to celebrate, however. Fifty of the ‘Cairo 52’ are cover just 35 percent of Cokes bottler work force still under trial while the remaining two are in Africa." doing hard labor, and...we continue to receive reports of new waves of arbitrary arrests." GERM ANY Egypt’s ongoing roundups of suspected he upper chamber of Parliament killed $19 million in funding Sept. 29 for the new Mag homosexuals have been denounced by the U.N. nus Hirschfeld Foundation. The lower house of Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the U .N. Human Rights Committee.* Parliament created the organization and allocated the money June 27 to fight dis IS R A EL crimination and compensate the gay academic will be gay movement for the destruction appointed to Parliament in of its infrastructure by the Nazis. November to replace a Meretz Hirschfeld is believed to have party member who is retiring. been Germ any’s— if not the Uzi Even will be the nation’s first world’s— first gay activist. He openly gay member of Parlia founded the Scientific Humani ment, the H a’aretz newspaper tarian Committee in 1897. reported. The upper chamber of Parlia The 61-year-old says he will ment nixed the legislation creat introduce legislation to advance ing the foundation by sending it to gay equality in areas such as a Siberia-like joint committee for inheritance and taxes. He has a further discussion. “We are back Uzi Even history as an activist with the to square one,” an activist said. organization Society for the Protection of Per sonal Rights. S W IT Z E R L A N D A 1995 settlement in a lawsuit Even filed witzerland’s largest state, Zurich canton, against his employer, Tel Aviv University, grant passed a law Sept. 22 giving gay couples ed full spousal benefits to his partner, including numerous marriage rights. Voters approved the tuition exemption, use of facilities, air tickets for measure by a 63 percent to 37 percent margin. sabbaticals and a pension. 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