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IWTïmneu’s august 6.2004 * J u s t O Ut|21 sexuality as a pretended family relationship.” It was repealed in November 2003. Tens of thousands of queers also marched July 3 in Cologne, Germany. more,” the schcxil’s registrar, Posa pom Promprakai, told The Associated Press. “T hey’re much happier.” C RO W N M emorial C enter ♦ C remation a B urial ^ MALTA he European island nation of Malta, which is located south of Sicily and east of Tunisia, saw its first Gay Pride parade July 22. A “rela tively small” number of marchers walked down Republic Street in the capital, Valletta, said The Malta Independent daily newspaper. “We are here.... We are visible now, and we have a right to he ourselves just like any other taxpaying citizen,” co-organizer Sandro M an sion told the paper. Prominent attendees included Malta Labor Party MPs Evarist Bartolo and Helena L>alli, Edu cation Minister Louis Galea and representatives from the Altem attiva Demokratika, Alpha and Moviment Graffiti political parties. "1 am here because the parade is lobbying for a fundamental human right,” Bartolo told the Independent. SWEDEN Pentecostal Movement preacher in Borgholm : was jailed for one m onth June 29 for making anti-gay statements. Áke G reen was found guilty of agitating against an « I dtt I AM ethnic minority for saying that homosexuality results from “evil powers” and vio lates the Bible’s story of cre ation, that gays are a tumor on society and that AIDS is caused by gay sex. T he Kalmar district court ruled that the right of gays to he protected from such lan Christian fundamentalists in the Bahamas protested a cruise for gay guage outweighed G reen ’s families arranged by Rosie O ’Donnell (right, with spouse Kelli) VENEZUELA right to make homophobic ore than 300 people marched in the Gay statements in the name of religion, the A/iton- Beenie M an’s June 24 concert at the London Pride parade July 11 in Caracas. hladet daily newspaper said. nightclub O cean was canceled after club owners They carried balloons, rainbow flags and Sweden’s National Federation for Sexual expressed “concerns for public safety following signs denouncing mistreatment of queers by Equality commented: "Freedom of religion should discussions with M etropolitan Police” about the police and televisiun broadcasters. Jesús Medina never imply agitation against persons. It is this artist’s lyrics. of the organizing group Lambda said activists type of agitation that foments hate crimes against also seek access to marriage and want a “nation homosexual, bisexual and transgender persons." INDIA al advocate" for homosexuals within the office ozens of gays, lesbians and “gender of the People’s Advocate. THE DAHAMAS activists” protested June 30 in New Delhi osie O ’Donnell’s cruise for gay families and against the nation’s ban on gay sex, the Hindu their kids was met by about 100 Christian stan Times and New Kerala newspapers reported. fundam entalist protesters when it docked They marched around the Jantar M antar obser July 16 in Nassau. vatory waving banners and shouting slogans. They carried signs reading, “Gay ways are Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code reads, not G txl’s ways” and “If you are openly gay, stay “W hoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse away.” Police prevented the demonstrators from j against the order of nature with any man, getting t(X) close to the gay families. woman or animal shall be punished with impris- In a statem ent, the local U.S. embassy onm ent for life or with im prisonm ent...for a defended the right of queer Americans to visit term which may extend to 10 years and shall the Bahamas unmolested. also be liable to fine.” Jaya Sharma of Voices Against 377 told the Times, “A t a time when JAMAICA even a country like C hina has removed the uju Banton, one of several Jamaican dancehall criminal tag from homosexuality, India contin- music stars whose lyrics urge listeners to kill ues to adhere to the Victorian prohibitions.” gays, will be ques tioned in connec tion with a violent survey by the Humsafar Trust and the Indi attack on several an Market Research Bureau has found that gay men, Britain’s 17 percent to 20 percent of men who have sex The Guardian re with men in Mumbai (Bombay) are HIV- ported July 17. Sev positive. The survey of 240 men also found that eral witnesses iden 27 percent of those questioned are married to a tified him as part of Buju B anton woman and that 47 percent had sex with a woman in the past month. a group of armed The men reported an average of four sexual men who broke into house June 24 in the Singapore banned the Taiwanese film Jamaican capital of Kingston and heat up the occu partners a m onth, down from 11 in a similar sur Formula 1 7 because it “ creates an illusion of pants while hurling homophobic verbal abuse. vey conducted in 2000. Abou, 92 percent meet a homosexual utopia” Jamaica is considered to he one of the world’s male sex partners at cruising locations, 81 per most overtly anti-gay nations. T he country’s cent at railroad stations, 69 percent in public toilets and 56 percent through friends. most prominent gay activist, Brian Williamson, SINGAPORE ingapore’s Film Appeals Com m ittee upheld was knifed to death June 9 at his apartment in NEPAL an apparent hate crime. July 22 a ban on the gay-themed Formu beat gays protesting outside the prime la 17— Taiwan’s top-grossing movie this year. m inister’s office in K athm andu, The The teen-age romantic comedy encourages Himalayan Times reported July 6. Members of homosexuality, the committee said: “[Itj creates he campaign by the British gay group Out- the gay Blue Diamond Society were protesting an illusion of a homosexual utopia, where every Rage! to halt concerts by Jamaican dance- “police atrocity” and “human rights violation.” one, including passershy, is homosexual and no hall music stars who advocate the murder of gay "The police heat them up and ordered people is escalating across Europe. ills or problems are reflected.... It conveys the [them l to leave th e place, saying staging Bounty Killer’s September performance at message that homosexuality is normal and a n at protests around Singha Durbar was banned,” the Krakrock Festival in Avelgem, Belgium, has ural progression of society." the paper said. Blue Diamond called for an been canceled because of the artist’s violent “ im m ediate end of sexual oppression and anti-gay lyrics. “Hateful people are not welcome THAILAND assault on sexual minorities from the police he 15 transvestites at the Chiang Mai Tech at the festival,” organizer Bert Breda said. and society." J H In late June, Beenie Man and Capleton were nology Schtxal in Thailand have been given allowed to perform at Brussels’ Couleur Café their own toilet because they didn’t feel welcome Festival only after they promised not to use Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported in the men’s or women’s restnxims. The “Pink homophobic lyrics. Both singers were threat for the gay press since 1985. 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