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23 [W Tïïnnew s publicity? If they are going to live together, they can go live together and shut up about it. There is not any need for this nonsense whatsoever, and we should not have to tolerate it in Canada." Wayne also refused to attend Saint John’s first Gay Pride parade this summer, which was organized in response to her outburst. he Catholic bishop of Calgary, Alberta, says Prime Minister Jean Chrétien may go to hell for his support of same- sex marriage. “He’s putting at risk his eternal salvation," Fred Henry said July 31. “He’s making a morally grave error, and he’s not being accountable to God." The Canadian Conference of Fred Henry Catholic Bishops tix>k issue with Henry’s statement. “It’s not the sort of language that the rest of the bishops would employ," Gener al Secretary Monsignor Peter Schoncnbach said. Michael Leshner, half of Canada’s first mar ried same-sex couple, called Henry’s remarks “appalling." “It’s sickening, it’s obnoxious, and it’s got to stop," he told Toronto’s G bbe and M ail. “1 think the bishop has eaten too much mad cow.” new Environics poll found that 57 percent of Catholic Canadians support same-sex couples’ access to full marriage. Same-sex marriage is available now in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, where it was legalized by courts this summer. The federal government is in the process of extending those rulings nationally. Only 38 percent of Protestants polled in favor of gay marriage. Overall, 53 percent of Canadians approve. The survey, taken between June 12 and July 6, also found women more supportive (58 percent) than men (49 percent) and people age 18 to 29 more supportive (65 percent) than peo ple older than 60 (33 percent). The survey’s margin of error is 2.2 percent. With a population of 280,000, the nation is He previously had declared his innocence but believed to have a gay community o f only about fired his lawyers and admitted guilt after officials 1,500 people, but Pride weekend has become threatened to harm his mother. “He can’t do any thing to protect himself while she is still in the one of the year's hottest tourist events. Hotels country because the government keeps threatening fill up, and nearly all merchants along the march route fly the rainbow flag. to harm her," said Sara Moore of the International The parade was followed by a free concert in Gay &. Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Activists believe the charges against Sharipov Laekjartorg, the old town’s historic main square, were concocted to silence his journalistic criti cism of police cor ruption and hu man rights abuses. They also report ed that he has been beaten and tortured while in custixly. “He was prob ably beaten and destroyed as a person if he plead guilty to some thing he didn’t do and was ready Shoppers puckered up Aug. 3 for a kiss-in at a Sao Paulo shopping center to before to fight protest an uptight security guard against,” said his BRAZIL brother, Aleksei. “I don’t even want to think how ore than 1,000 gays staged a kiss-in Aug. 3 they could keep him without fcxxl or do some at Sao Paulo’s Frei Caneca shopping cen thing— maybe say that something can happen to ter in protest against a security guard who had his mother to be able to break his will. I lived forced a same-sex couple to stop kissing. there, and I know that country and [the] Uzbek Mall management supported the event, staged way of deiruxrracy. I every day say thanks to God in the fcxxl court, by blanketing the premises with that 1 had (the] chance to move to (the) U.S.A." In a letter to Uzbekistan President Islam posters of red lipstick kisses. However, a mall Karimov, Reporters Without Borders charged, spokesman said that the original kissing incident “Everything indicates that Sharipov was arrest- had crossed a line by being excessively intimate ed on false and sordid pretenses designed to rid and that the guard made the right call. the authorities of a bothersome, dissident SWEDEN voice.” Only three of the 15 former Soviet ne man was hospitalized after about 30 republics still ban gay sex— Uzbekistan, Tajik skinheads attacked marchers in Stock istan and Turkmenistan. holm’s Gay Pride parade with rocks and bottles Aug. 2. The skinheads reportedly carried ban COSTA RICA gay lawyer has filed suit before Costa Rica’s ners reading, “Crush pedophiles.” A recent ad campaign by gay groups featuring Constitutional Court seeking the right to photos of activists when they were children has marry his lover. caused controversy. Police made about 15 arrests and relocated several groups of skinheads out of the city center for the duration of the parade. M O A FIJI he man charged with hacking to death the I openly gay head of the Fijian Red Cross and his lover was found inniKent of the crimes Aug. 6 by reason of iasanity. Apate Kaisau, 29, will be held indefinitely in a Suva mental hospital, according to the Aus tralian daily newspaper The /Age. Kaisau was charged with murdering John Scott, 53, and his partner, Gregory Scrivener, 39, in July 2001. INTERNATIONAL he head of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has called an unprecedented special meeting of the communion’s 38 primates follow ing the Aug. 6 decision by U.S. Episcopalians to install an openly gay and sexually active bishop in the diocese of New Hampshire. Williams and others fear the highly controversial election of Bishop Gene Robinson will cause the Anglican Communion to break in two. “The anxieties caused by recent develop ments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their conse quences,” Williams said. The meeting is sched uled for mid-October. T Mexico will begin paying for anti-AIDS drugs, President Vicente Fox (center, with President Bush) announced Aug. 5 MEXICO resident Vicente Fox said Aug. 5 that the government will begin paying for anti- A ID S drugs for everyone who needs them. At present, only about 10,000 poor people are receiving the treatments at government expense, reports said. The Health Department estimates that up to 177,000 Mexicans are HIV-positive. P UZBEKISTAN penly gay Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov, 25, pleaded guilty Aug. 13 to sodomy, sex with minors and running a brothel and was sent to jail for 5 1/2 years. O ì When an ordinary R ealtor sim ply won’t do... Yashin Castrillo Fernández launched the action July 20 after a family court ruled against him. In a separate action, the family court deci sion is being appealed as well. Under present Costa Rican law, anyone who marries someone of the same gender is subject to a prison sentence of six months to three years. Castrillo says Article 14 of the Family Code and Article 176 of the Penal Code violate the con stitutional guarantee of equality. A ICELAND bout 30,000 people turned out for Iceland’s fifth Gay Pride parade Aug. 9 in Reykjavik. jn Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's degree m journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. V 3144 SE Belmont Portland, OR 97214 office: 503-238-7617
