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IRAQ
alam Pax, the gay Iraqi blogger who capti
vated Web surfers with his reports from
inside Iraq before and during the war, was not an
Internet hoax, as some people had speculated.
Earlier this month journalists identified him
as a 29-year-old, multilingual, middle-class
architect who worked as a translator for free
lancer Peter Maass during the war. Pax’s blog
continues at dearraed.hlogspot.com.
“He’s a lot like us, hut he’s not us,” Maass told
The Los Angeles Times June 4 after learning of his
translator’s other identity. “Salam sees what’s
happening around him— the tragedy or the
absurdity— and he communicates it in a human
voice that most journalists don’t have.”
In a June 3 posting Pax wrote: “I was won
dering when will (Maass] find out [that I am
Salam Pax] and if he will he angry because I did
n’t tell him. I think he isn’t. (In his article about
Pax at Salon.com] he uses words like ‘chubby’
and ‘chembic’ to describe me. Ewww."
D a v id W . O w e n s
P.C. & A S S O C I A T E S
Liberal Democrats John Stewart, 30, and
Neil Fletcher, 38, who represent neighboring
districts, have been together 10 years. They
were elected to their seats in May.
“We are very much in love and would like to
have some type of marriage," Fletcher said. “It
would be great to have some kind of legal
acknowledgment of our relationship.”
Stewart added: “We have never hidden the
fact that we are a couple. We take our careers on
the council seriously, and it seemed like an
appropriate time to make our relationship per
fectly clear. We name each other as respective
partners on the Lib Dems’ Web site, so it is not
rocket science to find out.”
Fletcher said the couple don’t “really go round
the gay scene and only visited a gay club togeth
er for the first time last week.”
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FRANCE
esbian tennis champion
Amélie Mauresmo, 23,
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player on display at the Grevin
wax museum in Paris.
She was on hand as her
likeness was unveiled in late
May. She also recently posed
topless for the cover of Paris
Match and announced, “I’ve
found the woman of my life.”
In the accompanying arti
cle, Mauresmo said she was
“wounded” in 1999 when fel
low player Martina Hingis
called her “half a man" and
competitor Lindsay Davenport
made fun of her “guy” shoul
ders. For a while, she added,
she refrained from showing her Lesbian tennis champ Amélie Mauresmo has shouldered nasty
shoulders in public.
comments from her competitors
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ritish male soldiers might have sexually tor
tured male Iraqi prisoners of war, London’s
Telegraph reported June 1. One man was arrest
ed after dropping off incriminating film for pro
cessing back in Britain, and the other seven
members of his unit are under investigation by
the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal
Military Police.
According to the Telegraph, “(One) picture
showed a pair of white legs and the head of an
Iraqi. The hand of a man behind the Iraqi’s head
appeared to he forcing him to perform a sex act.
[Another] picture showed a pair of bare bottoms
with an Iraqi on his knees on the floor and his
body bent. Another man was pressed behind
him in what seemed to be a sexual position.
(Another] picture appears to show two naked
Iraqis cowering on the ground.”
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advertisements by a Caribbean resort that bars
gay couples, The Guardian reported June 5. Ads
for the Sandals chain state that the accommo
dations are for “mixed-sex couples only.”
London Underground took action after
Mayor Ken Livingstone denounced the ads as
discriminatory. “I am pleased to say London
Underground agreed that it is not acceptable for
a company with such an openly discriminatory
policy to advertise on public transport in this
city,” he said.
A Tube spokeswoman said the ads were “not
appropriate” because they contravened the sys
tem’s “social inclusion policies.” A total of 12
Sandals properties in Antigua, Barbados, Cuba,
Jamaica and St. Lucia allow only heterosexual
couples. The company operates seven other
resorts in Cuba, Jamaica and the Turks and
Caicos Islands that are open to “singles, families,
groups— everyone. ”
CANADA
ovemments will rescue Toronto Pride,
y 365Gay.com reported June 2.
Tire parade has lost sponsors and faces
increased liability insurance premiums. Worst of
all, however, severe acute respiratory syndrome
has caused thousands of canceled hotel reserva
tions for Pride weekend, suggesting attendance
could plummet.
Toronto has more SA R S cases than any city
outside Asia and has seen a resurgence of infec
tions and quarantines in recent weeks. Federal,
provincial and city governments will infuse
about $182,503 to keep the parade afloat, the
Web site said.
Toronto Pride is believed to attract more
than 1 million people to the city’s gay village.