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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.
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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
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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.
HIV by having sex with other prisoners, which
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