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Herzog-Meier Lisa Costello 503 372 3129 - P in o m i VW Consultant Hill area, the Edinburgh Evening News reported March 4. T he perpetrators are believed to he “gangs of drunken young m en” who think gay cruisers “are unlikely to contact police.” “T here may he people who see men who use this area as easy targets,” said C hief Inspector G avin Buist of Gayfield Police S ta tion. “It’s a particularly unpleasant and preda tory crime. T here may he a perception that because this is an extremely well-known cruis ing area, then the victims will he less likely to come forward.” Buist said the stepped-up police presence is not aimed at reducing cruising. “These patrols will continue as long as they’re required and if the resources are avail able at the time; however, it’s im portant to stress we’re not trying to hound members of the gay com m unity away from this area,” he said. “T h e primary reason is to make sure peo ple are safe.” - Drivers wanted. \\- /h vdublisa @ hotmail.com________________ v-X UNITED KINGDOM ritish Member of Parliament Clive Betts, who represents Attercliffe, Sheffield, Eng land, came out Feb. 25. The 53-year-old told The Star: “In the end 1 am going to feel I am easier with myself, more com fortable and will not have to keep wondering whether people are speculating and whether any relationship 1 do have now or in the future becomes the subject of pnirient interest in a way that is unhelpful to me doing my job. I think the fact that public figures have come out shows the public that there are people in responsible posi tions who are gay and helps perhaps to remove the stigmatization. People have been tremendous in their reactions. No one has said it will affect their relationship with me and how they work with me, and I’m extremely grateful for that. People have been very supportive.” f3etts said he is dating a man in his 20s. A n o th er newspaper, The Sun, quickly revealed that his boyfriend is Brazilian “rent hoy" Jose Gasparo, 20, who worked for an escort agency and still is pictured on its Web site. The paper said the two men have known each other for only two months, during which Betts hired Gasparo to work in his House of Commons office. Betts “has signed the [$1571-a-hour rent hoy as a research assistant and is trying to get him a Com m ons pass," The Sun said. “The relationship has sent shock waves through security circles.” F3etts later told The Star that Gasparo has given up both prostitution and the Commons job and that the two will continue their rela tionship. Britain has had 12 other openly gay or bisexual MPs, 10 of whom remain in office. B \ rash of gay-hashings in Edinburgh, Scot- / » land, has led to increased police patrols around Royal Terrace Gardens in the C alton eorgc M ichael was prohibited from wear- J ing an anti-w ar T-shirt during his performance on the Top of the Pops show M arch 7, his spokesw om an told U.K. media. T he gay pop star did a cover of Don M cL ean’s anti-w ar song "The G rave.” “There was a heated discus sion betw een George and the G eorBe M,chael producers,” his spokeswoman said. “He wasn’t happy about this at all.” However, the British Broadcasting Corp. said the story is false. “louring rehearsals and in the recording he was wearing a black sweatshirt with a jacket on top,” a network spokesman said. “A t no point was he wearing one of the [‘N o War, Blair O u t’) T-shirts (that members of his hand wore], he was not asked to rake anything off, and he was not told that he could not wear it.” C •3* ormer Welsh Secretary Ron Davies aban doned his campaign for re-election to the Welsh National Assembly on March 9 follow ing newspaper reports that he had gay sex in a cruisytwixxled area. He originally denied an item in The Sun that he groped a construction worker March 3 at a Bath, Somerset, highway cruise spot called Tog Hill and insisted he had been nowhere near the location that day. After the newspaper rigorously defended its report— and said it had photos other than the one it published, which showed Davies emerging from some hushes— he admitted stopping at the site on more than F
