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17 . 2003 * IW T ïïn Looking For Q uality On A Budget? “I am a revolutionary, a pioneer,” Gogolev told Reuters. “I am a Russian citizen, an Ortho dox Christian and a homosexual. I simply want ed to marry the man I love.” The church voided the wedding, suspended the priest who performed it and launched an investigation. “Such marriages are strictly for bidden,” said a spokesman for Patriarch Alexy 11, the Russian Orthodox primate. Nizhny Novgorod, previously named Gorky, is 248 miles east of Moscow on the Volga and Oka rivers. It is Russia’s third-largest city. SOUTH AFRICA outh Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that a gay man whose partner was killed in a car crash is eligible for support pay ments from the Road Accident Fund. News reports said the mling effectively extends to gay partners all the financial rights of marriage. Antonie Michael du Plessis and the late Albert Ernest Clack had lived together since 1988 with Clack as the breadwinner. 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Turn Vida Openly gay British talk show host Graham Norton will hit U .S . airwaves next June UNITED K I N G D O M mash British talk show host Graham Norton, who is openly gay, will have a new program on the U.S. cable network Comedy Central next June. The initial agreement calls for 13 epistxles. Norton’s British show, So Graluim Norton, already has a cult following on the BBC Ameri ca channel. He is now on a standup comedy tour of the United States. S UZBEKISTAN penly gay Uzbek journalist Ruslan Sharipov— jailed on what he and human rights activists say are bogus charges of sodomy, sex with minors and enticing minors to anti social activity— saw his 5 1/2-year sentence reduced on appeal Sept. 25. The Tashkent City Court dropped the third charge and cut 18 months from his prison term. Additional appeals are planned. Sharipov arrived at the courthouse with a swollen eye, a facial laceration and broken glass es. Officials blamed a minor vehicle accident in which he was the only one injured. In a Sept. 5 letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Sharipov said he was coerced into pleading guilty via harsh torture and threats that his mother would be harmed. “They put a gas mask on my head and sprayed an unknown substance into my throat, after which 1 could hardly breathe,” he wrote. “They also injected an unknown substance into my veins and warned me that if 1 did not follow their instructions they would give me an injec tion of the A ID S vims. I could not withstand such excesses, and now 1 am writing only a small part of what 1 faced.” Human Rights Watch and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission believe the government targeted Sharipov to silence his journalistic criticism of human rights abuses and police corruption. ISRAEL team of gay people armed with video cam eras has begun confronting Israel Police Force officers who are beating up cruisers in Tel Aviv’s Independence Park and Electricity Park. More than 20 men have been roughed up in Independence Park during what activists say are almost nightly raids. According to GayMid- dleEast.com, several cops were chased out of the park Sept. 20 by chanting activists carrying rain bow flags and anti-homophobia placards, and no violent incidents have been reported since the camera patrols began. JH d jeü in ç a nuM¿p<ye cavi i p u vu l e uvu* petior... A pure life experience Creating ancf M aintaining Outdoor Spaces Wit it an Organic T lair Landscapes * (gardens ♦ O SO UT H K O R E A ell-known South Korean actor Hong V Suk-chon, who was blacklisted from the television industry three years ago after coming out as gay, is appearing in a new program. 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