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2 2 J u s t M it ' tebruary 7.2003 riijîij'in ew s B eyon d W t h e C lo s e t o r k sh o p terranean Sea south of Sicily. It gained indepen dence from the U nited Kingdom in 1964, remains in the Commonwealth and is seeking membership in the European Union. “It’s definitely not anti-gay.” He said that no points are scored for shotting people and that the game can he played without shm ting anyone. “It’s a game,” Desi told Reuters. “G et over it.” S O U TH A FR IC A C O LO M B IA en male sex workers were shot in the head during an attack on a Gtpe Town gay massage parlor and escort service Jan. 20. Nine have died. Police believe the killings are connected to gangs and drugs, hut investigators have been urged not to dismiss the possibility of a hate crime. “We have been very concerned about threats issued by various fringe groups in society over recent months that indicated an intention to perpetrate acts of violence agaiast lesbian and gay people,” said Evert Knoesen of the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project. The victims were tied up and shot at close range, and their throats were slit. Six died on the spot, and three died later in hospitals. Police want to question four white men who were driving an old white three-series BMW with Johannesburg plates. According to the South African Press Asso ciation, one of the men has a tattoo of a curled- up snake on his upper arm and the words “fast gun” tattooed on his right wrist. He has bleached reddish hair and a goatee. T he second man is skinny and fair and sniffs frequently. The third man has a weight lifter build and a shaved head. The fourth man also was described as well-built. T he massage parlor, Sizzlers, is located in Cape Town’s Sea Point neighborhood. South Africa is one of the world’s most violent nations, averaging 55 murders and 1 37 rapes a day. he lead sponsor of Colombia’s civil unions I bill says she survived an assassination attempt Jan. 20 in Medellin. “W hen I was stepping out of my car, four men on two motorcycles shot at us, but fortu nately, we were able to survive after my driver was able to nin over one of the assailants,” Sen. Piedad Córdoba said. She told local media she is a target because she fights for gay, black and indigenous people and is a vocal opponent of President Alvaro Uribe Velez. “This is a way to silence the opposition,” she said. “Those of us who are against the president are automatically accused of being guerrillas. I have even had insults shouted at me in airports.” In 1999, Córdoba was held hostage for 15 days hy Carlos Castaño of the right-wing U n it ed Self-Defense Forces of G ilom hia, after which she spent time in exile in Canada. worker who set up a Web page was lured to a meeting and arrested by undercover cops who had posed as a paramour. In December, a gay dentist was nabbed in the same manner. O n Jan. 25, the second trial resumed in the cases of 50 men who were arrested in May 2001 at a gay discotheque and elsewhere in C airo and charged with the habitual practice of debauchery. In an earlier trial, some of the men were con victed and others were acquitted. Egyptian Pres ident Hosni Mubarak later declared that trial invalid, saying it had taken place in the wrong kind of court. 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He said the grave site a “national treasure and part of the proponents of gay mar national heritage.” The broken gravestone will riage are endangering he pieced hack together, cleaned and placed family values. atop a new granite slab. “It would have Ulrichs was the first person known to have been only OK if they written publicly in defense of gays, in two tracts had only excluded us,” published in 1864— Inelusa and Vindex: Stxial Oscar Atadero, spokes and Legal Studies on Man-Manly Love. O n Aug. 28, 1867, Ulrichs gave what has ; man for ProGay Phili ppines, told Agence been called the first public gay rights speech, France-Presse. “But the addressing the Congress of German Jurists in church cannot leave Munich urging repeal of all anti-gay laws. He well enough alone and was shouted down. is attacking homosexu Ulrichs later emigrated from Germany to Italy. He died in 1895 and was buried among the fami als as against the fami ly, which is not true.” Cardinal Jaime Sin’s comments caused outrage in the Philippines ly plots of his close friend Niccolo Persichetti. T TH E N E TH E R L A N D S A U S T R A L IA he publisher of the Dutch newspaper De Gay Krant is working to han import of the video game Postal 2 because it allows players to sh(X)t dogs, cats, junkies and homosexuals. “It is disgusting. In the Netherlands we have anti-discrimination laws” that protect gays, said Henk Krol, who has asked Parliament to outlaw the game. According to Vince Desi of Running with Scissors, the U.S. company that makes Postal 2, he board of Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade reversed itself Jan. 6 and inserted “Gay and Lesbian” back into the parade’s name. “Given that the change of name had pro voked such a strong response from members of the community, the board decided to revisit this decision and respond to community opinion,” New Mardi Gras co-chairman Michael W< xk 1- house told the Sydney Star Observer. T T *°* outh Africa’s C onstitutional C ourt will decide Feh. 27 whether a lesbian couple who are the biological mothers of twins both will he legally recognized as their parents. O ne of the women was implanted with the other woman’s eggs after they were fertilized hy sperm from an anonymous donor. The Depart ment of Home Affairs refused to register both women as parents. T he women sued, and the Durban High Court ruled in their favor. 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