r n jH i'in e u J S
Conforming
Non-Conforming
of Nizhny Novgorod. “1 simply
wanted to m any the man 1 love,"
Gogolev told Reuters.
T he church quickly voided the
wedding and suspended Enert.
Now it hits stripped him of his
priesthixxl altogether.
“We have decided to expel Father
Vladimir Enert from sacred office
after he voluntarily earned exit this
blasphemexis act," a spokesman said.
W atch said Oct. 6. In the latest
incident, Cairo police blocked
both ends of a bridge known
for gay cruising and arrested 62
men found on the structure.
T hey were held for three
days and released o n bail
after being charged w ith
“h ab itu al practice o f d e
bauchery.” They face up to
three years in prison.
“These arrests are only the
latest m a two-year official
A U S T R A L IA
campaign against homosexual
new study by the New South
conduct,” said Joe Stork, act
Wales state attorney general
ing executive director of
finds that 85 percent of Sydney
Human Rights W atch’s Mid
homosexuals have experienced
dle East and N orth Africa
homophobic abuse, harassment or
division. “M any of those
violence and that half of them have
detained in the past have been
experienced it in the past year.
tortured in detention."
Verbal abuse was the most com A confused Todd G rim shaw homes in to lock lips with Nick Tilsley for
Stork charged police also
mon problem, followed by offensive the first gay kiss in the 43-year history of the U .K . soap Connuittim Street
continue to entrap Internet
gestures, threat of assault and assault.
cruisers and provided details on several men
Gay teens reported feeling most vulnerable.
jailed recently after seeking same-sex part
gay kiss on an evening soap opera that has
The report, Homophobic Hostilities and Violence
ners online.
aired
in
the
U
nited
Kingdom
for
43
years
Against Gay Men aiul Lesbians in NSW, questioned
grabbed 54.7 percent of all television viewers
600 gays and lesbians in Australia’s largest city.
A R G E N TIN A
O ct. 6.
he Association for the Fight for Transves
SW EDEN
About 14 million people tuned in to see
tite-Transsexual Identity was denied gov
wedish gay couples are being recognized as Coronation Street character Tcxld Grimshaw
ernm ental registration Sept. 23.
(Bruno Langley) plant one on Nick Tilsley
v j the parents of their children following a
In rejecting th e application, Justice M in
(A dam Rickett). A total of 16 viewers called in
recent change in the law. A lesbian couple in
istry Inspector G en eral R icardo A ugusto
to complain about the snog.
UmeS are now the legal parents o f a girl who
Nissen wrote: “I consider th a t th e aims listed
was bom to one of the women, and two men in
by {the association] do no t fall into th e c a te
TH A IL A N D
Stockholm are now the legal parents of a girl
gory o f ‘public grxxl’ required of legally regis
study by th e U.S. C enters for Disease
they adopted in the U nited States.
tered organizations under A rticle 33 o f the
C o n tro l and Prevention has found that
C ivil C ode. It does no t seem to me th a t ‘to
17 o f every 100 gay men in T hailand are
M A LTA
fight for recognition o f transvestism as an
HIV-positive.
nder pressure from the European U nion,
identity by both society and the state ’ nor
Tire agency said that’s the highest gay HIV
which it is set to join, Malta banned anti-
‘building
tran sv estite-tran ssex u al c itiz e n
rate
in
the
world.
But
some
Thai
AIDS
experts
gay discrimination in the workplace O ct. 7.
A legal notice published in the G overn believe the C D C study was flawed because it test sh ip ’ offer a valuable framework for the
developm ent of coexistence."
ed men who frequent gay bathhouses and cniisy
m ent G azette stated: “In determ ining w hether
parks, who might have a higher infection rate.
any treatm ent is treatm ent that is justified in a
dem ocratic society, the Industrial Tribunal
N EW ZEA LA N D
shall take into account the provisions of any
directive and/or regulation issued by the insti p a y a and heterosexual couples are now
treated equally under immigration niles,
tutions of the European U nion relating to dis V JL treat«
New Zealand Immigration Minister Lianne
crim ination and particularly C ouncil Directive
Dalziel announced Sept. 29. All couples must
2000/4 3/EC of 29th June 2000 and Council
prove they have lived together in a genuine
Directive 2000/78/EC of 27th N ovem ber 2000
prohibiting discrim ination on the basis of reli and stable partnership for one year when they
seek a perm anent residency application for a
gion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation,
foreign partner.
race or ethnic origin.”
In the past, there was a two-year wait for de
Gay activists welcomed the move but said
they will be happier when the changes are w rit facto and same-sex couples and no wait for
m arried couples. Couples who have been
ten directly into labor law rather than merely
together
less than a year can seek temporary
published as subsidiary legislation.
permits.
About 40 percent of Maltese gays and les
bians report workplace harassment based on
UGANDA
their sexual orientation, according to the Malta
he
Gay
and
Lesbian Alliance of Uganda
Gay Rights M ovement.
has informed the government that gays
will form their own political party if they are
U N IT E D K IN G D O M
A Lithuanian sculptor insists his models are
not granted equal rights, Kampala’s The Moni socialists, not queers
bout 20 percent of gays and lesbians in
tor reported O ct. 6.
Wales are afraid to come out at work, a
“We believe criminalizing us because of our
survey by Stonewall Cymru and Cardiff U n i
L IT H U A N IA
nature is unfair,” GALA
versity has found. A nd 25 percent say they’ve
ithuanian
sculptor
Bronius Vysniauskas
chairm an S.W .l. Lule
been fired for being gay.
said. “If you fail to honor T v wants $300 from the Lithuanian Gay League
A third of those questioned said they’d been
because it snapped a photo of one of his public
our request, we will be
bullied or physically attacked for being gay, and
forced to form our politi sculptures of muscular, square-jawed Communist
a quarter reported harassment or discrim ina
workers and put it on the cover of its magazine.
cal party to represent our
tion at the hands of police. T h e survey was
He says if the group d<x*sn’t hand over the money,
interests.’’
completed by 364 people.
he will sue them for $8,000 for defamation.
In response, Justice and
“I created a monument of two srxrialist work
Constitutional
Affairs
9
ers, not gays,” Vysniauskas said, according to
Minister Janat Mukwaya
ritain is removing more than 300 people Janat M ukwaya
Advrxrate.com. “I don’t know how homosexuals
told The Monitor: “1 would
from its sex offender registry because they
advise them to read the Constitution. I «Jon’t came to the idea my mixlels were gay.” J H
were convicted of crimes that will no longer
think gays have a right in ixir Constitution.”
exist come next May— buggery and gross inde
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
cency between men. T he crimes will disappear
for
the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor's
EG
Y
P
T
when the sex offenses bill now moving through
gypt continues to rtnind up and arrest gay degree in journalism from Drake University and
Parliam ent reaches th e statute book, The
started his career as a radio reporter.
men by the hundreds, Hum an Rights
Guardian said.
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