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Economic and Social Council. “I was deeply troubled to learn that the U.S. government, presumably at your direction, sided with some of the most undemocratic, anti-human rights regimes in the world in voting against con sultative status for two international organizations, solely on the grounds that they represent gay and A particularly bad strain of chlamydia not usually seen in the United States appears to be spreading among men who have sex with men. It is an infection that can increase their chances of lesbian people,” Frank said in a letter to Rice. getting or spreading the AIDS virus, Florida’s Sun- Sentinel newspaper reported Feb. 6. ________________________ ■ MASSACHUSETTS Called LGV chlamydia, this sexually transmit Hatchet-Wielding Murderer ted disease has caused an outbreak in Europe. Turns Gun on Self Diagnoses confirmed by U.S. health officials still Jacob Robida, 18, of New Bedford, Mass., who are low—just 27 since they warned a year ago that was accused of going on a rampage at a gay bar and the strain was headed here. later killing two people, fatally shot himself in the The Centers for Disease Control and head in a gunfight with Arkansas police Feb. 4 after Prevention already was counting an 8 percent killing a West Virginia woman who was in his car, increase in HIV among gay and bisexual men said Bristol County, Mass., District Attorney Paul between 2003 and 2004 before LGV’s arrival was Walsh Jr. recognized. Its symptoms are difficult to detect, and diagnosis often requires expensive testing. Symptoms differ from regular chlamydia: swollen lymph nodes in the groin, genital or rectal ulcers, and painful bowel movements and other gastrointestinal symptoms that might mimic inflammatory bowel disease. Such symptoms leave patients particularly susceptible to HIV infection if they also encounter that virus. Because testing is difficult, no one knows how prevalent LGV truly is. The CDC is encouraging doctors who spot LGV symptoms to contact their local health department for help in finding a near by testing lab or in shipping samples to the CDC Jacob Robida, 18, killed himself after attacking for testing there. three others at a gay bar in New Bedford, Mass. Anti-Gay Congressman Wins Majority Leader Post U.S. Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, was elected majority leader Feb. 2 in the House of Represent atives. Queer advocacy groups say he’s no friend of theirs; the Human Rights Campaign recently gave him a score of 0 on gay issues that came before Congress. Boehner has voted across the board against gay rights bills and for anti-gay bills and amendments, according to a compilation of his voting record by HRC. He has repeatedly declined to sign a pledge not to engage in discrimination based on sexual ori entation in his congressional office, according to The Washington Blade. Police had searched for Robida since Feb. 2, when they say he used a hatchet and handgun to wound three men at the Puzzles Lounge in New Bedford. Walsh said the suicide confirms his early suspicion that Robida remained dangerous. Police in Massachusetts, who are investigating whether Robida had an accomplice in the bar attack, searched his room and discovered a hand written note in which he bid his mother goodbye and suggested he would again resort to violence. The contents of the note were not released. It was unclear whether Robida left the note before or after the nightclub attack. NORTH CAROLINA Gay Tax Resisters Practice Civil Disobedience uireci/ueii: 503.347.5477 E-mail, rogermosser^comcast.net www.buysei.biz Charles Merrill, a 71-year-old artist, and his partner, Kevin Boyle, announced Jan. 30 they will not pay federal or North Carolina income tax on more than $2 million worth of stock sales and income for 2004 because of unfair discrimination in the federal and state income tax codes. “I have no intention of paying federal and state income taxes because my same-sex partner and 1 cannot be legally married and receive the same tax benefits as other mar ried couples,” Merrill said. “By not paying John Boehner, R-Ohio, Tom DeLay's replacement as majority leader in the House of Representatives, has taxes, this is a deliberate act of civil disobe voted across the board against queer rights. dience towards a president that wants to make an amendment to the Constitution to only allow marriage between a man and woman, Frank Blasts U.S. Vote at United Nations Whderrn^ Uftratermere/Cronin Cl Caplan Realty Group. Inc. 825 NF M. ltrwnah St . Suite 120 Portland Oregon 97232-2IS« Openly gay U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Feb. 3 to explain a U.S. vote in the United Nations to block two gay rights group from admission to the rather than two people who love each other, and that discriminates against us as full citizens of the United States.” Merrill and Boyle are founders of a group called Citizens Against Discrimination. In 1996 they