JULY 21, 2006
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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. A married man with
children who becomes a
woman will still legally be a
Activist« have organized International Day of Action Against
husband and father to her
Homophobic Persecution in Iran to mark the first anniversary of the
hanging of teenage boys Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni.
wife and children.
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