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S yphilis E pidemic H its S ydney G ays
The syphilis rate among gay men in
Sydney, Australia, has increased tenfold since
2000, according to a report in The Medical
Journal of Australia.
Most of the approximately 200 annual
cases are occurring among HIV-positive men.
Syphilis had almost disappeared
from Sydney’s gay community in
the 1990s, hut now, experts say,
many HIV-positive men have
returned to riskier sex practices.
Syphilis also can be spread by
oral sex.
Similar increases have been
reported in some U.S. and
European gay communities.
but activist groups claim to have information
that the rape charge was bogus and that the
two were hanged solely for being gay.
The Iranian exile gay group Homan
reportedly claims that 4,000 homosexuals
have been executed in Iran since the 1979
Islamic revolution.
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About 100 people took to the
streets of Mumbai, India, Aug.* 16 to
protest the nation’s ban on gay sex,
New Delhi Television reported.
“A large number of countries
have repealed this law,” said lawyer
Anand Grover, one of the
marchers. “In fact it’s a condition
for entry into the European Union.”
Punishment for violation of
Section 377 ranges from a fine to
prison.
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Protesters marched in Sydney and Melbourne on Aug. 13,
Australia’s first anniversary of the national ban on same-sex
marriage.
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The 64-year-old Roman Catholic bishop
R ussian C ity P rohibits P ride P arade
of Santiago del Estero,- Argentina, resigned
The government of Tyumen, Russia, Aug. 19 after a videotape circulated showing
refused a permit for the city’s first Gay Pride him having gay sex with a 23-year-old man.
parade Aug. 15, saying organizers had violat
Diocesan authorities claimed Juan Carlos
ed procedure by requesting the permit more Maccarone stepped down for health reasons,
than 15 days prior to the event, Interfax but the resignation came just two days before
reported.
the prominent daily newspaper Clarín publi-
The parade had been scheduled for Sept. 5 ■ cized the tape.
on the city’s main thoroughfare, Republic
Santiago del Estero is 600 miles northwest
Street. Organizers said they were expecting up of Buenos Aires.
to 700 marchers.
Tyumen, population 600,000, is located in A ruba M ust R ecognize
south-central Russia just north of Kazakhstan, G ay M arriage
about 2,000 miles southeast of Moscow.
The Caribbean island of Aruba must rec
ognize and register a marriage between a local
A ctivists P rotest G ay I ranian ’ s
woman and a Dutch woman, the island’s
E xpulsion from the U.K.
Superior Court ruled Aug. 23.
British Home Secretary Charles Clarke is
“Since Aruba is part of the Kingdom of the
being asked to halt the pending expulsion of Netherlands, it must comply with demands of
an Iranian gay man back to his homeland, The the Kingdom,” the court declared.
Observer reported Aug. 21.
The Aruban government said it will
appeal the ruling, taking it to the
Netherlands’ Supreme Court, local
media reported. A spokesman for
Aruban Prime Minister Nelson Oduber
said he considers it a moral issue.
Kingdom law mandates that Aruba,
the Netherlands and the Netherlands
Antilles recognize each other’s legal
documents. But it also grants Aruba
self-rule.
Charlene and Esther Oduber-
Lamers got married in rhe Netherlands
in 2001, shortly after it became the first
nation in the world to legalize same-sex
marriage. They then settled on Aruba.
In 2004, facing harassment after
they
sued for recognition of their
These Iranian teen-agers allegedly were executed for
union, they moved to the Netherlands.
being gay.
Tile couple also were faced with
In making its request on behalf of the Aruban immigration rules that prohibited
unnamed 29-year-old man, the gay group Esther, the Dutch partner, from spending more
Stonewall pointed out that Iran has a death than half of each year on the island. And
Charlene’s government employer had refused
penalty for gay sex, and uses it.
TTie man fled Iran and sought asylum in to graht Esther spousal health coverage. JF1
England after police seized a video of him and
a friend kissing and arrested the friend, he Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
for the gay press sinte 1985. He has a bachelor’s
said.
Iran recently executed two gay teen-agers. degree in journalism fróm Drake-University and
The government said they raped another boy, started his career as a radio reporter.
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