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« ?nm I— — [g IWTïïIlneu;s comes right up to me and knocks me cold. My mother, after going out once after Baghdad was taken hy the U.S. Army, decided she is not going out again, not until I promise it looks kind of normal and OK. So 1 guess the ostrich maneu ver runs in the family. "Things are looking kind of OK these days," he sivs. "Life has a way of moving on. Your senses are numhed, things stop shocking you. If there is one thing you should believe in, it is that life will find a way to push on, humans are adaptable, that is the only way to explain how such a fixilish species has kept itself on this planet without wiping itself out." Ivan Shapovalov, 36, was accused of perverting the morals of minors and later reprimanded hy a judge. t.A.T.u. singers Julia Volkova and Lena Katina, Kith 18, have been denounced and banned from televi sion in Britain for kissing and making out on stage— with some critics call ing their antics “pedophile pom .” The 300 extras were clad in t.A.T.u.’s signature school-girl uniforms for a video shoot for last months Eurovi sion Song Contest. “ He threatened the girls’ morality hy seeking to pay them 132 cents] to pauja Ettelbrick (right, with U .S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, addam Hussein’s Iraq quarantined all AIDS pose, ^ a Moscow cop told Britain s The D-N.Y.) says southern Africa Ls singling out queers “ as patients and their families at “a prison of Sun. We wanted to stop him exploit- scapegoats for their countries’ problems” shame and death," the French Press Agency ing these young children. We didn’t reported May 4. know what he was going to do with them.” ings. However, “based on interviews with “The patients and their families were treated t.A.T.u. s biggest hit, “All the Things She Said," numerous individuals and activists, the report like prisoners in guarded secret locations because hit No. 1 in several nations earlier this year. In the concludes that the equality guaranteed (queer) the government decided that there was no AIDS video, Volkova and Katina make out passionately. people is fragile and even endangered by the in the country,” said Dr. Karim Nada, director of The two have said they plan to marry each silence and foot-dragging of political leaders in the quarantine facility. “The families remained other but still have sex with men as well. Russ South Africa,” the groups said. locked up until the death of their relatives.” ian journalists claim that the girls really are het The lbn Zuhur “hospital” was located “on erosexual and that Shapovalov invented the les S O U TH K O R EA the ragged outskirts of Baghdad,” the report said. bian shtick for commercial reasons. n activist with Seoul’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisex ual and Transsexual Human Rights Feder FRANCE C R O A TIA ation committed suicide April 26 in the group’s etired French film actress and former sex- “Queer Zagreb” conference April 25 to 30 office. Okoodang, 19, left a note saying he no pot Brigitte Bardot will he sued by human attracted people from Austria, Britain, longer could live with society’s discrimination rights groups for statements in her new book against queers. Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and elsewhere. “How cruel and anti-biblical it is to discrim Well-known academics Dennis A lt inate against sexual minorities,” he wrote. man of Australia and Jonathan Katz of “After death, I can proudly say I am gay, with no the United States were among the pre need to suffer, no need to hide myself anymore.” senters. Three live cultural perform Okoodang left his savings of $300 beside the ances played to full theaters, although note with instructions that it be used “for the police and security guards were required liberation of sexual minorities.” to protect attendees at a cost of thou sands of euros. A U S T R A L IA The opening-night performance and gay bathhouse in Melbourne is set to begin one day of the conference were picketed advertising on over-the-air television. by evangelical Christians. News cover The ad “is for men who like men and want a age of the events was balanced, partici venue to explore that,” Da pants said. mien Kimber, manager of Wet on Wellington, told The IN TE R N A TIO N A L Melbourne Herald Sun. "The outhem Africa is a hotbed of homo biggest hidden market we phobia, Human Rights Watch and have is men who do not identify with the gay com the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Com mis munity. That is clearly where the advert is directed.” sion said May 14. In a report unveiled in The ad shows two men and two women in a bar. Cape Town, South Africa, the two organizations ac When the women leave, Bill Muehlenberg the men give each other the cused officials in Botswana, Brigitte Bardot (then and now) attacks gays Namibia, South Africa, eye, then depart for the bathhouse. in her new book, A Cry in the Silence Zambia and Zimbabwe of The Australian Family Association is unhap singling out queers “as py about the ad. "It seems like it is really almost a attacking Muslims, gays, unemployed people, scapegoats for their coun recruitment drive,” vice president Bill Muehlen teachers, illegal immigrants, modem art, trash berg said. “They are trying to get new recruits, tries’ problems.” Paula television, politicians and fast food, among fresh blood almost, into the community.” Ettelbrick, IGLH RC executive director, said other things. In A Cry in the Silence, the 68-year-old says of sexual minority “people have been vilified by presidents and political leaders, which has led to N EP A L gays, “They jiggle their bottoms, put their little epalese queers staged a groundbreaking a culture of intolerance." fingers in the air and with their little castrato heauty pageant and fashion show early last voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put The 298-page report— More Than a Name: month at the National Theater in Kathmandu, State-Sponsored Homophobia and Its Conse them through.” Lawsuits are planned by the quences m Southern Africa — details police harass OneWorld.net reported. The event was organ League of Human Rights and the Movement ment, official crackdowns and community vio ized by the Blue Diamond Society, a gay rights Against Racism and for the Friendship of Peoples. group created in September 2001. "We expect justice to hit her hard," move lence. Victims allegedly have been evicted, fired, assaulted, imprisoned, expelled from “Our society has denied the existence of homo ment president Mauloud Aounit said. “We need sexuals for too long,” executive director Sunil a ruling which will dissuade and prevent her school, denied access to medical care and driven Babu Pant said. “This event was to show their exis- into exile or to suicide. from making further outbursts.” "When southern African political leaders tence and work towards building acceptance.” Bardot, an animal rights activist, has been fined previously for inciting racial hatred. In one like President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe Nepalese gays and cross-dressers say they instance, she said France was being overrun by make speeches saying that gays and lesbians are experience widespread societal disapproval and sheep-slaughtering Muslims. ‘worse than dogs and pigs,’ it should be no sur- abuse, including beatings, torture and sexual assaults at the hands of police. JH prise that violent attacks follow,” said Scott Long of Human Rights Watch. R U S S IA he manager of the Russian lesbian pop duo On paper, South Africa is one of the world’s Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported most pro-gay nations: Its post-apartheid consti for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s t.A.T.u. was arrested May 15 in Red Square as he prepared to shoot a video with 300 tution bans all anti-gay discrimination, and it degree m journalism from Drake University and has seen a long string of gay-friendly court rul- started his career as a radio reporter. girls, some of them reportedly as young as 7. 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