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They walked from the Monu ment to the Revolution to the Zócalo, the nation’s political epicenter, chant ing, “We aren’t five, we aren’t 10, fucking govern ment, count us right!” At the end “we started running towards the Zóca lo and tcxik over almost the entire magnificent plaza,” said marcher Mon ica Taher of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. “We hugged, screamed and listened to A couple ride their bike toward the Zocalo during Mexico City’s the organizers speak.” First Lesbian March Activists said M exi can lesbians and feminists need to create “How could ‘support democracy in Iraq’ autonomous spaces where they can work with become to mean ‘bomb the hell out of Iraq’ ?” out compromising their ethics to build a society he wrote. “Nobody minded an undemocratic that is critical of heterosexism, neoliberalism Iraq for a very long time, now people have and other fundamentalisms. decided to bomb us to democracy? Well, thank you! How thoughtful.” LEBAN O N In another entry, he stated: “There are no olice raided the Beirut gay club Acid on waving masses o f people welcoming the Amer March 29. Some patrons reported being icans nor are they surrendering by the thou beaten with plastic whips. sands. People are...sitting in their homes hop About 10 people were arrested— effeminate ing that a bomb doesn’t fall on them.” men and people whose clothing, tattoos or piercings signaled to cops that they were devil U N ITED K IN G D O M worshippers, according to kx:al reports. Anoth ritish police let gay activist Peter Tatchell er 30 individuals had their state IDs confiscated off the hook April 2. He was arrested and had to retrieve them from a police station. March 12 for blocking and damaging Prime Minister Tony Blair’s limousine in a one-man TONGA protest of the war in Iraq. I ing Taufa’ahau “The police must have viewed the televi I . \ . Tupou IV banned sion footage and decided there was no case to The Times of Tonga answer,” Tatchell said. “Yet again I walk away a because it reported free man. It is amazing that after nearly 1,500 that the nation’s lead- , . ^ human rights protests over the last 38 years I ers practice sodomy, , have only one conviction.” Police Minister Clive j|| S ig n a t u r e P r o p e r t ie s ! Supreme Court in late v ------- March. The king pro- Taufa’ahau Tupou IV hihited the paper from publishing and forbade Tongans from possess ing it, saying it was seditious and promoted vio lence and disorder. “They are saying that the leaders of this country are sodomites and poofters, that the leaders are sodomizing each other...without mentioning any names.. .which means that peo ple might think that any of the leaders could be doing that,” Edwards shouted. The newspaper is seeking an interim injunction to lift the ban. THE N E T H E R L A N D S he man who murdered gay Dutch politician Pirn Fortuyn told a court March 27 that he did it for the sake of the Netherlands’ Muslim population. Fortuyn, who founded a popular grassroots political party, called for an end to fur ther Muslim immigration because he believed the foreigners had not integrated into Dutch society, which is arguably the world’s most liberal. Confessed killer Volker van der Graaf, 33, told the court Fortuyn was attacking “the weak groups in society to score points with the elec torate” and “scapegoating” Muslims. “I could see no other option than to do what I did,” he said. 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A he partners of gay British soldiers killed in the war with Iraq will be the first same-sex spouses to receive military pensions, The Lon - don Times reported March 20. “The government is aware of the concerns of service personnel whose unmarried partners are currently ineligible for pension benefits,” Junior Defense Minister Lewis Moonie said. “We have concluded that it would be appropri ate to address now the particular risks associat ed with conflict.” The surviving partner can prove the rela tionship existed by producing joint leases, mortgages, wills, children or other evidence of financial interdependence. T T H A ILA N D he Thai military no longer will draft gay men and transvestites, officials said March 25. “The military has to keep them out, which is not because we are prejudiced hut because we fear that the military will collapse,” said Som- dhat Attanand, Royal Thai Army commander in chief. Thai males older than 20 must com plete two years of military service. T SO U TH A F R IC A O outh Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled v 1 March 28 that a lesbian couple who utilized artificial insemination are the “legitimate” par ents of their 18-month-old twins. The court said Section 5 of the Children’s Status Act was unconstitutional in not recogniz ing same-sex couples as legitimate parents. South PHOTO BY GLAAD/MONICA TAHER It’s a you parade.
