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rWîTïïïïlneu>s D a v id W. O w e n s P. C. & ASSOCIATES seri'ing passionately Feb. 8 on the hospital series Casualty. An inside source told The Sun it was among the largest number of com plaints the network ever has received. Many viewers were upset that the kiss aired before 9 p.m., after which British broadcasters are allowed to screen sexi er programs. the community since 1975 David W. Owens A t t o r n e y s at L aw Brady M. Ricks Chad E. Schaff Richard A. Crews*t counsel Roger Gray* tlicensed Oregon, Washington, and OoL nado 503 224°3100 ° ❖ C O L O M B IA FAMILY LAW ❖ WILLS & TRUSTS • Domestic Partnerships • Probate & Trusts • Formation & Dissolution • Conservatorships • Adoptions & Guardianships • Advance Directives • Divorce & Visitation C rammy-winning Colombian singer Juanes has come out in support of the nations gay civil unions hill in an interview with Tentaciones magazine. The legislation has passed a Senate committee and is expected to he con sidered by the full Senate this month. The interviewer said to Juanes: “I need to ask you a hard question. What would happen if gay and lesbian organi zations in Colombia ask Juanes to sup- Grammy winner Juanes supports Colombia’s gay civil port the civil unions petition publicly? unions bill Would you do this?” Juanes replied: “I would support them. Why he said he would not have done if prison officials wouldn’t 1? The same way 1 support other com- had warned him of the danger. South African prisons did not provide munities, including mine, I would do the same thing with the gay and lesbian community.... 1 inmates with condoms until 1996. One in five South African adults is HIV-positive. think that every single person can decide what to do with his or her life. 1 think it’s great, as long as there is love and respect between the couple.” lice in Cape Town arrested two men olii The interview appeared in the February Feb. issue. Juanes’ hits include “Fíjate Bien" and “A Fel 13 for the murders of nine men at the Sizzlcrs gay massage parlor. Investigators said Dios Le Pido.” both have confessed. News reports had linked the Jan. 20 massacre Z IM B A B W E to gangs and drug deals, but police said they now ay and human rights activists repeatedly believe the motive was robbery. The victims zapped vociferously anti-gay Zimbabwean were tied up, were shot and had their throats slit. President Robert Mugabe on Feb. 19 and 20, Six died on the spot, and three died later in calling him a murderer and demanding he be hospitals. The sole survivor has been released arrested for torture. from the hospital, after having two bullets As the Franco-African summit opened in removed from his head, and is staying at a safe Paris, the protesters blasted fog horns and house. threw paint at the Zimbabwean Embassy. They also staged demonstrations outside Mugabe’s CANADA hotel and at the Ministry of Justice and the in Vancouver made an arrest Feh. 12 Palace of Justice. I olice < in I i the case of a gay man who was brutally The protesters came from A C T UP, the Pink murdered in a Panthers and the Movement for Democratic cruising area of Change. Several people were arrested, including Stanley Park, well-known British gay activist Peter Tatchell. vChich abuts Tatchell, who has had several high-profile the city’s gayest run-ins with Mugabe through the years, was grabbed by police Feb. 20 outside a Metro sta neighborfuxxl. Aaron Web tion en route to the protesters’ fifth action, at ster was beaten the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. to death with a “We were bundled into a police van and baseball bat or taken into ‘preventive detention’ at a nearby pool cue in late Aaron Webster police station," he said. “ I was told by the senior 2001. Police arresting officer that the interior minister had believe it was a gay-bashing. ordered the arrest of all protesters. We were held The 19-year-old man who was arrested can by the police for nearly two hours, until Mugabe not be named because he was only 17 at the left the Foreign Ministry. On our release, we were trailed by police cars and plainclothes offi time of the crime. Police do not believe he acted alone and said they will make more arrests cers. We were hunted like rats through the streets of Paris. It seems that the whole appara shortly. tus of the French state is organized to protect a human rights abuser such as Mugabe and quash anada’s National Lesbian and Gay Journal peaceful protesters like ourselves.” ists Association has disbanded, Toronto’s Mugabe has said of gays: “What an abomina tion, a rottenness of culture, real decadence of cul Xtra! reported Feb. 6. The paper said the 8-year-old organization ture. [Homosexuals are] repugnant to my human conscience...immoral and repulsive.... Animals in “had mn out of steam the last couple of years." The group’s remaining funds were donated to the jungle are better than these people because at least they know that this is a man or a woman.... 1 the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. In the United States, the association is thriv don't believe they have any rights at all." ing with more than 1,100 members in 19 chap ters. The group’s next national convention is S O U TH A F R IC A Sept. 11 to 14 in Li» Angeles. J D South African man who contracted HIV while imprisoned from 1993 to 1994 Compiled hy REX WOCKNER, who has reported received $132,500 Feb. 12 in an out-of-court for the gay press since 1 985. He has a bachelor's settlement with the Department of Correction- degree in journalism from Drake University and al Services. The former inmate said he caught started his career as a radio reporter. 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