« ?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.
BRING IN THIS AD FOR SI OFF ADMISSION PRICES
VAU D TH R U 12/31/03 503.223.1321
A
A
6 o i SE 38th Ave.
Portland, OR 97*14
503.231.39* *
Wed - Sat
A
&
U nique
H ome
&
s
N
T
P R U L M ITCHELL
G arden
A rt ,
G ifts
&M ore
Living By The Garden r
1X2» NK AIbrrla
l'or! lami (51151 ff l-W M
a
egon Camera
Everything Photographic
We have .1 knowledgeable.
friendK staff helping vou find
the right camera, binoculars,
or photographie accessories.
\ ‘ tai ni l \' owned and operated
business since 199" .
582 SW Adam s Avenue
(541) 753*2653
Corvallis, O R 97333 www.oregoncamera.com
J