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the Gazeta newspaper reported April 16. The
agency allegedly prevented him from renting
the Russian Theater, which was to he the show’s
venue, after local imams objected to him being
allowed to enter the Russian republic, which is
predominantly Muslim.
“We have canceled the show because Dagestan’s
Culture Ministry refused to offer us concert space,”
a Moiseyev spokesman told Gazeta. “They said that
imams had approached them with requests to keep
Moiseyev from entering the country.”
For its part, the Culture Ministry claimed the
cancellation had nothing to do with imams hut
rather with “organizational problems.” Deputy
Culture Minister Zaripat Salakhbekova said, “ If
they canceled the concert, then they had their
own reasons to do so."
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U N ITED K IN G D O M
ritish pop singer Robbie Williams, 30, is
gay, his former manager says.
According to the April 13 edition of The
Daily Mail, Kevin Kinsella said: “It was clear to
me that he is gay. I think Robbie has the same
problems as [television entertainer] Michael
Barrymore. They know they are gay, they know
what they want to do. But they are controlled
by parameters which say that you can’t come
out and say you are gay because it will affect
your career and sales, and people may not love
you. So what happens is that these demons
inside of them come out in drink and dmgs.”
Kinsella made the remarks in a docu
mentary on Williams’ rise to fame with the boy
hand Take That. Williams’ spokesman declined
to comment on the reports.
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N EW Z E A LA N D
New Zealand child has three parents fol
lowing resolution of a court battle between
a lesbian couple and an Australian gay couple
who donated spenn to them. The unnamed
2-year-old’s parents now consist of his biological
mother, his biological father and his mother’s
female partner.
The hoy was conceived in Sydney by mutu
al agreement among the four friends, hut they
later had a falling-out and the women moved
hack to New Zealand and denied the men
access to the hoy. Auckland Family Court
Judge Sarah Fleming determined the women’s
actions were wrong and gave the father joint
guardianship and seven days of access to the
hoy each month.
directive that extended spousal benefits to gay
employees if their relationship is recognized in
their home nation. Pushed to act by the Vati
can and dozens of Islamic and African nations,
the assembly said it is wrong for Annan alone
to have redefined what constitutes a family.
The United Nations previously has recog
nized only marriages between one man and up
to four women. Several U.N. member nations
accept polygamy.
Saudi Arabia’s representative called same-
sex marriage a “great evil,” according to The Los
Angeles Times. The Vatican’s representative said
same-sex unions “subvert” the institutions of
marriage and the family.
A spokeswoman for Annan said he is not
going to change his mind.
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A U S T R A LIA
ounger Australians are much more gay-
friendly than older ones, the latest Aus
tralian Survey of Social Attitudes has found.
About 65 percent of people younger than
35, and 56 percent of people between 35 and
49, say a same-sex couple with kids is a fam
ily. But only 14 percent of people older than
65 agree with that idea.
Half of people between 18 and 34 say same-
sex relationships should he legally recognized,
hut only 19 percent of those older than 65 sup
port the notion. The survey of more than 4,000
Australians was conducted by the Center for
Social Research at Australian National Uni
versity in cooperation with the universities of
Queensland, Western Australia and Sydney.
“Younger people seem to recognize the
presence of children as defining a family
rather
than
a
heterosexual
relationship...that’s legally sanctioned,” in
vestigator Shaun Wilson told The Australian
newspaper. “The generational differences are
very stark.”
IN T E R N A T IO N A L
he U.N. General Assembly rebelled
April 8 against Secretary-General Kofi An ex-manager has outed U .K . pop star
Annan, urging him to repeal his Feb. 1 Robbie Williams
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