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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was repealed in November 2003.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.”
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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. He has a bachelor's
Lotus Bathroom" has intertwined male and female
degree m journalism from Drake University and
ened with arrest under Belgium’s hate crime
symbols on the door, four stalls and no urinals.
started his career as a radio reporter.
laws
if
they
broke
their
vows.
“They don’t get teased in the bathroom any-
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