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noïember 19.2004 • ju s t o u t 23 riT i];H iln e u A S Ä-- - MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei said visitors ch(X)se a masseur from a catalog of photos of Southeast Asian men. “The masseurs are young and soft, and their mannerisms and movements arouse suspicion,” he told The Kuwait Times Oct. 23. “I consider these parlors to he windows of evil and corrup tion, and they must he closed.” Parlor owners told the Times the allegations are false and an insult to alternative medicine. S O U T H A F R IC A The Smith Africa Constitution may have been the first one in the world to ban discrimi nation based on sexual orientation, but the peo ple of South Africa still overwhelmingly dis approve of same-sex relationships, Afrol News reported Oct. 21. About 78 percent of 5,000 people surveyed by the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa said homosexual relationships are “always wrong.” Less than 7 percent said they are “not wrong at all." The results varied by race. About 81 percent of blacks said gay sex is always wrong, compared with 76 percent of Indians, 70 percent of whites and 64 percent of what South Africans call “col oreds," or mixed-race people. Geography is also a factor. Disapproval was highest in Limpopo and Eastern Cape provinces, around 90 percent, and lowest in the Free State and Western Cape, around 75 per cent. Cape Town, South Africa’s gay capital, is in Western Cape province. TAIWAN Taiwan is tracking 15 HIV-positive gay men and their sexual partners after the sero positive men attended a sex party at a private home, the Department of Health said Oct. 20. Officials said that if the men are found to have engaged in unprotected sex, they could be jailed for seven years. HIV diag noses jumped - 40 percent in Ì Taiwan during l the first 10 months of 2004 i Ì» compared with Despite police tracking of 2003, The HIV-positive gay men. Pride China Post said. went on as scheduled Nov. 6 Last January, in Taiwan Taipei police raided a “gay orgy” at a private apartment, detained 92 men and force-tested them for sex ually transmitted diseases. A total of 28 tested HIV-positive and 46 had syphilis, officials said. The seropositive men were added to the gov ernment’s official list of people with HIV. UNITED KINGDOM One man was killed and four were injured Oct. 30 in an apparent gay-bashing spree against people leaving Heaven nightclub near Royal Fes tival Hall in London’s Charing Cross district. David Morley, 37, died in the hospital after emergency surgery. He was a survivor of a 1999 nail-bomb attack on the gay Admiral Duncan pub, where he worked. Three people died and 73 were injured in that explosion. On Nov. 6, police charged Barry Lee, 19, and two 16-year-old boys with Mor- ley’s murder. A fourth hoy and a 14-year-old girl were charged Nov. 9. They also were charged with attempted griev A vigil was held for hate crime ous hodily harm victims in London of two other vic tims, robbery, vio lent disorder and conspiracy to com mit robbery. “That David should survive one David Morley instance of hate crime against London’s gay population only to then be killed in a later attack makes this week end’s appalling incident even worse,” Ben Sum- merskill, head of the gay rights group Stonewall, told the British Broadcasting Corp. Li t er ar y Arts Presents Marc Ac i t o 7 pm, Nov. 30 ^ a t S t . H e l e n s Book Shop 1550 Columbia Blvd., St. Helens 503-397-4917 www.sthelensbookshop.com Don’t Miss the Rate Train! Your Schedule IlfS IS M About 60 percent of sailors and 75 percent of Royal Marines are uncomfortable with the Unit ed Kingdoms open policy toward gays in the mil itary, London’s Sun newspaper reported Oct. 30. Polling conducted by the military also found that 29 percent of ships’ hands and 47 percent of commandos object strongly to the policy. Liberal I\'mix:rat defense spokesman Paul Keetch told the paper “If we want a 21st centu ry fighting force, some of the 20th century atti tudes need to be tackled. Just like our society, our armed forces have some way to go before there is full acceptance of human differences.” Me • • • • is My Schedule Free Consultations Interest Only No Down Payment Options First Time Home Buyers Russell Leggroan • cell: 503-750-3350 • Lrussell5@msn.com 503-722-3842 • 888-635-5446 415 17th Street, Suite 5, Oregon City, OR 97045 Me too NEW & USED CARS & TRUCKS JOHN MYERS UZBEKISTAN Uzbek gay journalist Ruslan Sharipov, 26, has been granted asylum in the United States, the World Association of Newspapers reported Oct. 25. Sharipov was imprisoned in Uzbekistan in 2003 for 5 1/2 years tor stxlomy and for what he and international human rights organizations said were trumped-up charges of sex with minors. He had written extensively about alleged human rights abuses by Uzbek authorities. This past June, Sharipovs sentence was changed to two years of communi ty service in the city of Bukhara, 345 miles from his home in Tashkent. I fled the coun try before his trans fer to Bukhara Uzbeks protest the deten- bon of Ruslan Shanpov Ucc |n a 2(X), ^ to U .N . Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Sharipov said he was coerced into pleading guilty via harsh torture and threats that his mother would be harmed. "They put a gas mask on my head and sprayed an unknown substance into my throat, after which I could hardly breathe,” he wrote. “They also injected an unknown substance into my veias and warned me that if I did not follow their iastruc- _ , . . ,, Ruslan Sharipov tioas they would give me r an injection of the AIDS virus. I could not with stand such excesses.” In its announcement, the newspaper associa tion said: “We are relieved that Mr. Sharipov is beyond the reach of the Uzbek authorities, and we hope that he can one day return to a free and democra tic Uzbekistan.” Sharipov is now in Sacramento, Calif., and is planning to write ahxit his prison experience. j n àmJ, Compiled by R ex WtXXNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1 985. He has a bachelor’s degree m journalism from Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. ¿0“ * V 3 RUG A \y I n 'S W/nulerfut Ktiçs. 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