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auflusl 5. 2005 - jUSt QUt21 I ¡in mews I Vasco Pereira da Gama, 33, and Dorival de Carvalho Jr., 41, a couple for 13 years, operate a M ore L esbians T han G ay M en beauty shop and a modeling agency in rhe city of M arry in C anada Cantanduva in Sao Paulo state. They also write Initial statistics on same-sex marriage in two social columns for local newspapers. Canadian provinces show that more female than In granting the adoption, Judge Julio César male couples have gotten married—even though Spoladore Dominguez said the Federal gay men outnumber lesbians. Psychology Council has determined that Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide I “homosexuality is not a sickness, a disturbance July 20 but has been legal in some provinces and or a perversion.” one territory for up to two years. Lesbian couples account for 63 percent of MIDE AST/AFRIC A same-sex marriages in Saskatchewan and 57 per cent in British Columbia—despite the fact that N igerian G ay M an S entenced Statistics Canada says only 46 percent of to D eath by S toning Canadian homosexuals are women. A 50-year-old man irt northern Nigeria has According to Saskatoons StarPhoenix news been sentenced to death by stoning for having paper, nobody can explain the numbers. gay sex, the United Nations said July 8. Theories cited include the fact that Canadian Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on lesbians are five times more likely than gay men arbitrary executions, called for an immediate to have children living with them who need review of rhe Shariah law sentence. The man legal protections and the stereotype that women had been acquitted of having sex with a younger are acculturated to dream of their wedding day. man but admitted to the judge, when asked, that Meanwhile, in Alberta, one of Canadas most he had had gay sex in the past, which led to the conservative provinces, marriage commissioners sentence. have been told they don’t have to marry same- There is a reasonable possibility the U.N. sex couples if they don’t want to. intervention will prevent the execution. Several The provincial government likely will add Nigerian women sentenced to death for adultery additional commissioners to guarantee that have been spared after international outcries. everyone who wants to marry will be able to. Calgary, the province’s largest city, has 26 mar I ran E xecutes G ay T eens riage commissioners, but many smaller commu Two male teen-agers were hftnged July 19 in nities have only one. Mashhad, Iran, for having sex with each other, The opt-out clause does not apply to reg the Iranian Students News Agency reported. istries, the government offices that issue mar The report was translated from Farsi by the riage licenses. British gay rights group OutRage. The teens, one 18 and one younger than 18, M exican A ctivist M urdered reportedly were convicted by Court No. 19 A prominent Mexican gay activist was mur under Islamic Shariah law, which punishes dered in what appears to be an anti-gay homosexual acts hate crime, Amnesty International said with death. They July 14. were identified Octavio Acuña worked for the only as “M.A.” Quereteran Association for Sexual and “A.M.” Education in Querétaro and ran a con The reports dom shop. He was found bleeding to said the couple death from multiple stab wounds inside acknowledged the shop June 21. Nothing had been having sex but said stolen. they didn’t realize In 2004, Acuña and his partner it was a capital filed a complaint with the State offense. They also Human Rights Commission alleging testified that most that municipal police officers had Iranian boys have stopped them in a public park and told sex with each them “their sort” should not be there. other. A few weeks ago, he publicly criticized Another re the commission’s failure to act on his port, by Iran Focus, complaint. claimed the two César Cigliutti, shown with partner Local human rights organizations say Marcelo Suntheim, is pleased with were hanged not another gay activist was drugged and the Argentine Senate. for engaging in gay beaten the weekend after Acuñas mur sex but for sexually der, in another suspected homophobic attack. assaulting a 13-year-old boy. Neither the Iranian Students News Agency report nor a report from A rgentine S enate R ecognizes the National Council of Resistance of Iran G ay R elationship reported this information, OutRage said. Argentina’s Senate granted spousal rights to However, The Times of London reported it one of its employees who registered his relation July 22. The paper said: “Iran’s religiously con ship under Buenos Aires’ Civil Union Law, local servative judiciary determined that the pair had media reported July 13. raped the 13-year-old boy at knifepoint while he Eduardo Gabriel Crimi will receive 10 days was out for a bicycle ride in the northeastern off for his honeymoon. The Senate also formally province of Khorassan.” asked the Ministry of Work’s Social Security OutRage’ expressed skepticism concerning Secretariat if Crimi should be granted the special the rape claims. bonus employers give people who get married. “The allegation of sexual assault may either “The Senate’s decision sets a key legal prece be a trumped-up charge to undermine public dent because through an administrative act, sympathy for the youths—a frequent tactic by dated and numbered, the Senate of the nation the Islamist regime in Iran—or it may be that has affirmed the [city’s] Civil Union Law on the the 13-year-old was a willing participant but national stage,” said César Cigliutti, head of that Iranian law...deems that no person of that Comunidad Homosexual Argentina. age is capable of sexual consent and that there fore any sexual contact is automatically deemed B razil A llows G ay A doption in law to be a sex assault,” said OutRage’s Peter Brazil allowed a same-sex couple to adopt a Tatchell, who broke the story in the English- child together for the first time July 7. language media. AMERICAS “This is just the latest barbarity by the Islamo-fascists in Iran,” Tatchell said. “The entire country' is a gigantic prison, with Islamic nile sustained by detention without trial, torture and state-sanctioned murder. “According to Iranian human rights cam paigners, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the ayatollahs seized power in 1979,” he said. “Altogether, an estimated 100,000 Iranians have been put to death over the last 26 years of clerical rule.” OutRage urged the international community to begin treating Iran “as a pariah state” and to “break off diplomatic relations, impose trade sanctions and give practical support to the dem ocratic and left opposition inside Iran.” The group also suggested people protest to their nearest Iranian embassy or consulate. Iran’s capital offenses include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious dnig trafficking, repeated stxlomy, adultery, prostitu tion, treason and espionage, according to the French Press Agency. P olice S hoot R ubber B ullets , J T ear G as at AIDS P rotesters Police in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, broke up a demonstration by AIDS activists with rubber bullets and tear gas July 12, Human Rights Watch said. Forty protesters were injured. The demonstrators, organized by the Treatment Action Campaign, were protesting the government’s px>r record in providing anti retroviral drugs to people with HIV. In December, the Eastern Cape Health Department stopped accepting new HIV patients and referred those already on treatment to Frontier Hospital in Queenstown, which is caring for fewer than 200 of the approximately 2,000 people in need. More than 50 AIDS patients have died while on the hospital’s treat ment waiting list. 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More than 300 people were searched. “Besides finding ecstasy pills all over the dance fkxir, police were also amazed to discover many tiny blue Viagra pills,” the Post said. www.Dharma-Rain.Org P hilippine S upremes R ule for L esbian M others The Philippines Supreme Court ruled last month that an allegedly lesbian mother can keep her child—possibly the first such ruling in the nation. The decision overturned a Court of Appeals ruling granting custody of the 4-year-old boy to his father, Crisanto Gualberto, who claimed his wife, Joycelyn, is gay. “To deprive a wife of custixly, the husband must clearly establish that her moral lapses have had an adverse effect on the welfare of the child or have distracted the offending spouse from exercising proper parental care,” the court said. jn Compiled by R ex W<X .KNER, who has reported for the gay press since 1 985 . 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