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“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. The
Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitu
tional Court share the position o f South
Africa’s highest court.
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hugs attacked a gay and lesbian informa
tion kxith at a U.N.-sponsored AIDS
information fair Sept. 21 in Kiev.
The stand, staffed by Our World Gay and
Lesbian Center and the gay magazine One of Us,
was assaulted by about 20 anti-gay hoodlums
who shouted threats, upset a table and tried to
destroy the structure. Police intervened and
quickly ended the attack.
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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.
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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
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television industry three years ago after coming
out as gay, is appearing in a new program. He
plays a gay designer on the S B C network’s
twice-weekly miniseries Perfect Love.
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old told The New York Times. “ 1 was terrible....
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homosexuality in Korea,” Hong added. “ But
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