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Lesbian Organization has posted graphic photos on its Web site of an Iranian gay man who escaped Iran after being beaten by the police because of his sexuality. The photos can be seen at pglo.t >rg/ pglo- web/engl ish/inde x. h t m. “Amir" said an undercover policeman made a date with him via the Internet, then arrested him when they met. A week later he was sentenced to 100 lashes, which were administered in jail. I Amir said the police told him that if he is apprehended again, he will be hanged like the two male teens recently executed in the city of Mashad. The government claims those teens were hanged for raping a boy, but some human rights groups say they have information that the teens were executed solely for being gay. “Iranian homosexuals are...subjected to oppression, injustice and death, and it is likely that only a small fraction of it comes to light,” the Persian gay group said. “The largest part of such disaster gets left [in] silence behind the curtain of fear—or many of (those cases] get mixed with...accusations so that the main story gets disguised.” | I I I Take a stroll through our 4 acres of display gardens. M2 $W Mans Aram reporters the marchers were “not against gay people^’ “We oppose ideologic homosexual ism...the imposition of deviant behavior upon society as if it were normal,” he said. In other Portuguese news, a citizens petition calling for same-sex marriage will be presented to the government Nov. 7, reports PortugalGay.PT. For more information about the project visit www.casamentoc iv il.org. MIDE AST/AFRIC A (503) 642-9992 1-800-356-1884 Aloha Market Centre 20455 SW TV Highway www. westsideflori st. net I taly I s B othered by G ay P osters A gay and lesbian Web site posted photos of Amir after he was allegedly beaten by Iranian police because of his sexuality. EUROPE L atvian P arliament V otes for M arriage B an Latvia’s parliament, the Saeima, voted pre liminarily to amend the nation’s constitution to T urkish O fficial T argets G ay G roup ban same-sex marriage, the Itar-Tass news The deputy governor of Ankara, Turkey, has agency reported Sept. 15. The measure faces launched a court action to shut down the 11- three more votes in parliament and approval by year-old group Kaos GL Gay and Lesbian special commissions before it could come into Cultural Research and Solidarity Organization. ' force. The group incurred Selahattin Ekremoglu’s Fifty-five of the Saeima’s 100 members sup wrath when it applied for and received official ported the amendment, which was introduced registration as a nongovernmental organiza by the right-wing Christian First party, a member tion from the ministry of the interior. He said of the governing coalition. the group’s existence violates Turkish Civil At Latvia’s first Pride parade in July, about Code articles prohibiting organizations that 150 marchers were targeted by about 1,000 anti- threaten morality. gay protesters who hurled insults, bottles and Banning the group likely would violate rotten eggs; blocked the streets; and forced the European law. procession to be rerouted. The demonstrators “We would like to remind the Turkish author chanted “No sodomy” and “Gays fuck the ities about their obligation to provide freedom of nation.” In the end, police formed a human association under their own constitution as well chain around the marchers to keep them safe. as under the European Convention on Human Rights and accession negotiation pr<x:ess with U.K. G ov ’ t L aunches the European Union,” said Patricia Prendiville, C ivil P artnership P ublicity D rive executive director of the European branch of the The U.K. government has begun advertising International Lesbian and Gay Association. the new Civil Partnership Act in the gay press and elsewhere. W oman A ttacked “It is ridiculous that we have had a system at J ohannesburg P ride that does not recognize the relationship of a gay A lesbian on a float at the Pride parade couple who may have lived together for 20 Sept. 24 in Johannesburg, South Africa, was years,” said deputy equality minister Meg Munn pierced in the neck with a broken bottle hurled as she launched the publicity drive. “One from a high-rise apartment building, The Cape partner could be excluded from the funeral if the Times reported. other died, or lose their joint home because of “Blood spurted from her neck,” said fellow inheritance tax.” participant Paula Cobum. “I ripped open some Same-sex couples will be able to register their packets to get T-shirts out to try and stop the relationships starting Dec. 21. The act takes blood, then I phoned the paramedics.... We effect Dec. 5, but requires couples to give were terrified. The bkxxJ was spurting out in big advance notice of their intention to tie the knot. clots, and she looked as if she was having a fit.” Registered partners will receive all the rights The 18-year-old victim, who asked not to be and obligations of marriage—in areas such as identified, was stitched up and released from the accident compensation, life insurance, immigra hospital two days later. tion, inheritance, intestacy, pensions, taxation, “I’m much better now,” she told the Times. tenancy, spouse and child support and workplace “But my right hand doesn’t want to work. I am benefits. Couples who have entered a legal same- not going to change because these people have a sex union overseas will not need to reregister in problem with me. I’ll be back next year.” the United Kingdom to be recognized. There The woman was riding with Fomm for the will be a formal, court-based process for Empowerment of Women, which had the only dissolution of a civil partnership. float in the parade that carried a political mes sage, the newspaper said. It was the target of L isbon N eo -N azis M arch homophobic abuse all along the route from A gainst G ays Constitution Hill to the Heartland gay village in About 200 neo-Nazis marched against “the the Braamfontein district, the report said. gay lobby and pedophiles” Sept. 17 in Lisbon, Several thousand people—most of them Portugal. The protest was organized by the white—ttxik part in the 16th annual march. National Renovation Party with support from This year’s theme was “The Right to Be, the the far-right National Front. Renovation President José Pinto Coelho told Freedom to Express." Family values organizations in Italy are upset about new billboards for the Ra-Re clothing line that show a man clutching another man’s crotch and a man pulling his boyfriend on top of him for a kiss, London’s The Observer reported. A spokesman for the Italian Parents Movement called the ads “vulgar” and “crass.” Photographer Oliviero Toscani, 63, defended his work. “It’s just two men having fun together,” he told the newspaper. “These parents who are complaining—their kids already know about this stuff. The Vatican is not too happy with me either, but the church is an anachronism in the world today.” L esbian MEP M arries G irlfriend German European Parliament member Lissy Groner, 51, married her girlfriend Sept. 10 in Brussels, Belgium. Mayor Freddy Thielemans conducted the ceremony. Germany has a domestic partnership law for same-sex couples, but Belgium allows gay couples access to regular marriage. “In Belgium, the law offers the same statute to hetero and homosexual couples. That is a positive signal for Europe,” Groner said. Full marriage also is available to gay couples in Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and Massachusetts. G ay P op S tar to M arry Newly out pop star Mark Feehily of the British boy band Westlife says he and boyfriend Kevin McDaid of the boy band V are getting married, The Belfast Telegraph reported Sept. 10. Coming out was “the best thing 1 ever did, like a massive weight off my shoulders,” Feehily told the newspaper. “My family and friends always knew who I was, but now I don’t have to hide my identity anymore.” Feehily came out in an interview with London’s Sun newspaper Aug. 19. “I am gay, and I’m very proud of who I am,” he said. “I’m not asking for any sympathy or to be a role model to anyone else.” Westlife has released five multiplatinum albums, with worldwide sales of 34 million. The band has had 12 No. 1 singles in the United Kingdom and has won two Brit awards and an MTV Europe award, according to The Manchester Evening News. G ay M ovie W ins V enice F ilm F estival The gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain won the Venice Film Festival’s “Golden Lion” for best film Sept. 10 in Italy. Set in Wyoming, the movie by Ang Lee tells the 20-year story of two cowboys in love. It stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal and was adapted from a short story by Annie Proulx. M uscovites P lan P ride P arade Moscow gays and lesbians are planning the city’s first Pride parade for May 2006, according to Nikolai Alekseev ofProjectGayRussia.ru. The parade will occur in conjunction with a conference for International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), scheduled for May 24 to 28. “Already some European politicians confirmed their participation, including European Parliament deputy Michael Cashman," he said.
