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