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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.
Since the 2001 arrests, gay groups, Amnesty
International, the U nited Nations and other
human rights defenders have accused Egyptian
officialdom of an array of anti-gay abuses includ
ing witch hunts, entrapm ent, arbitrary arrest,
lengthy imprisonment without trial and torture.
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activist Karl Heinrich
gyptian
police
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gay
groups
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Church on Jan. 23 after they were excluded
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or sex, Agence France-Presse reported Jan. 9.
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In the most recent case, a 30-year-old hotel
They also decried comments made at the con
A ntonio Di G ian- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
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domenico, who called
dtnal Jaime Sin. 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
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TH E N E TH E R L A N D S
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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.
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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. Now the C onstitu
tional Q u irt must confirm that the High G m rt
ruling is not unconstitutional.
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The video game Postal 2 allows players to shoot dogs, cats, junkies and homosexuals