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The event featured more than 200 competi the alteration after legislation permitting such tive events in 26 sports including, for the first changes took effect July 16. time, “wheelchair dancing.” More traditional Under the law, people diagnosed by two doctors competitions included swimming, wresting, soc as having a psychological makeup that is at odds cer, fencing and rowing. with their biological sex can revise their registra The venue for the games was the 1972 Sum tion if they are at least 20 years old, unmarried and mer Olympics site. Athletes came from 17 coun childless and no longer have working reproductive tries, mostly in Western Europe, but participants organs. Around 8,000 Japanese have “gender iden also came from Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey. tity disorder,” said a spokesperson for the organiza Some 20,000 spectators attended the games, tion Gid.jp, which broke the news of the case. which are staged hy the European Gay and Les bian Sport Federation. German Justice Minister JAMAICA Brigitte Zypries spoke at the opening ceremonies. amaican dancehall music star Beenie Man issued an apology Aug. 2 for his violent lyrics -5- advocating the murder of gay men. But the he leader of Germany’s Free Democrats British gay group OutRage!—his main neme political party came out July 24 in an inter sis—denounced the move as “insincere." view with Der Spiegel. “It has come to my attention that certain Guido Westerwelle also lyrics and recordings I have made in the past may told the magazine that have caused distress and outrage among people i whose identities and lifestyles are different from gay couples should have full adoption rights and my own," Beenie Man said. “While my lyrics are the same tax breaks as very personal, I do not write them with the married couples. intent of purposefully hurting or maligning oth The government is ers, and I offer my sincerest apologies to those planning to extend addi Guido Westerwelle who might have been offended, threatened or tional marriage rights this hurt by my songs. As a human being, I renounce year to same-sex couples who register under the violence towards other human beings in every nation’s 3-year-old partnership law. The statute way and pledge henceforth to uphold these val withholds rights in areas such as adoption, pen ues as I move forward in my career as an artist.” sions, inheritance, taxation, financial support, Those lyrics include “I’m dreaming of a new court testimony and social welfare benefits. Jamaica, come to execute all the queers” and “1 cannot change whether my life pleases the “Hang queer women with a long piece of rope.” people or not—whether my life [as a gay man J OutRage! pooh-poohed the statement. brings [vote] increases in large cities or whether “Beenie Man’s so-called apology is so vague it possibly causes rejection in rural regions," that it does not even mention what he is apolo Westerwelle told Der Spiegel. gizing for,” the group said. “It contains no explic The government reported July 28 that 6,000 it regret for his incitements to murder gay people same-sex couples have made use of the partner and no specific affirmation of his respect for ship law since it was enacted in 2001. homosexuals.... He is opportunistically issuing this statement to save his career from collapse.” A T CRAIG QUIRK DVM STEPHEN KOCHIS DVM 809 SE Powell Blvd 232-3105 UNITED KINGDOM he British Broadcasting Corp, upheld a complaint July 28 against one of its rughy commentators who called an altercation between two players a “gay slap.” A total of 10 viewers complained about announcer Brian Mixrre’s remark made during February’s Scotland vs. England match. The BBC said the phrase violated guidelines con cerned with “hurtful or inaccurate stereotypes.” J ♦ * 503-226-6678 FREE HIV TESTING ^Rose City ¡I I I 2330 NW Flanders Suite 207 he government of Hong Kong will survey the population to gauge its support for a host of gay rights measures, The South China Morning Post reported July 27. On the agenda are an anti-discrimination law, recognition of same-sex relationships and matters related to taxation, education and health. “I don’t think the Hong Kong SAR [special administrative region of China] government will try to impose something like this on the community without at least 50 percent support," said Stephen Fisher, deputy secretary of the Home Affairs Bureau. Gay activists said they are confident that at least half of the population supports equality. In an editorial, the Morning Post endorsed the pro posed changes. “The absence of laws protecting the gay community from discrimination sits uneasily with Hong Kong’s claim to he a world city,” it said. “It undermines our community’s claim to he fair-minded, tolerant and diverse.” I ¡I JAPAN n a first, a Japanese postoperative transsexual was allowed to change her gender in the gov ernment’s “family register" July 30. The Naha Family Court in Okinawa Prefecture approved CHILE bout 64 percent of Chileans believe gay cou ples sh<xild have access to legal civil unions, a Fundación Chile 21 poll has found. But 65 per- A
