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JULY 21, 2006 JUStlOUt 19 TIRED OF YOUR OLD WINDOWS? Congress Blasts Russian Gay-Bashing Fifty members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote June 30 to Russian President Vladimir Putin “to express our dismay over the riots and violence against gay and lesbian marchers in Moscow during a Gay Pride parade in late May.” “We believe that the mayor’s public statements and his banning of the parade itself—as well as the fact that provocative and violently anti-gay statements by religious leaders and others went unrepudi ated by elected officials—helped create a situation in which violence against gay and lesbian people was in fact more likely to happen, if not inevitable,” the lawmakers said. “Given reports that some police stood by while gay and lesbian Activist Peter Tatchell marched in London at EuroPride, marchers were attacked, it is diffi carrying a poster depicting the pope in drag. cult for us to believe that the police brutal floggings imposed by courts as punishment, were unable to protect the marchers, but instead and torture and ill treatment, including sexual abuse, were simply unwilling to do so.” in police custody." The letter was organized by gay U.S. Rep. For more details, visit Irelands blog at Barney Frank, D-Mass., and signed by several direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/06/ House leaders on international affairs and human global_protests.html. rights issues. The small May 27 march—an attempt to lay ASIA/PACIFIC flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then Korea OKs Gender Change walk a few blocks for a rally across from Moscow City in Official Records Hall—resulted in violence, injuries and arrests. The South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled June 22 marchers were attacked repeatedly by neofascists, that postoperative transsexuals can change their skinheads, militant Christians and riot police. About gender in the government’s all-important family 120 people from both sides were detained. registry. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov said he banned the “Gender should be decided by not only physical march because Russia’s “morals are cleaner” than appearance but also the person’s mentality and those of “the West.” He called the attempt to lay psychology, and society’s attitude to that person,” the flowers a “desecration...a provocation [and] a court said, according to a translation by The Korea contamination.” Times. “This means that gender is decided by diverse “People burst through, and of course they beat factors, and that a person’s mental and social gender, them up,” he said. which he or she did not recognize at birth, can he A quarter of Moscow’s police force—1,000 found during his or her social life.” officers—was assigned to prevent the march from taking place. © The court said bureaucrats should look at five criteria before changing a record. The person needs to have felt that he or she belonged to the opposite R ex WocKNER has reported for the gay press since sex throughout adulthood, must have undergone 1985. He has a bachelor’s degree m journalism from counseling and surgery, needs to be living bio Drake University and started his career as a radio reporter. logically and socially as a member of the new gender and must be recog nized as such by family and friends. When those conditions are met, the registry will be modified, and the individual will obtain all rights and obligations of the new gen der, including, in the case of female-to-male transsexuals, vulnerability to the draft. However, any legal obli gations acquired prior to the change in status will persist. 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