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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.
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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. JH
Registered same-sex couples will receive
marriage rights and obligation in the areas of
immigration, taxation, inheritance, social secu Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
rity benefits and hospital visitation. Activists for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
degree m journalism from Drake University and
continue their push for nationwide recognition
started his career as a radio reporter.
of gay partnerships.
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