JANUARY 19, 2007
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Gay pop star George Michael faced unfit driving
charges Jan. 11.
parentage of one of his mothers. Without a decla
ration of parentage or some other order, the surviv
ing partner would he unable to make decisions for
their minor child, such as critical decisions about
health care.”
The Institute for Canadian Values denounced
the ruling as “naked judicial activism.”
Gloria Trevi, Released from Jail,
Makes Comeback
“Mexico’s Madonna,” flamboyant gay icon
Gloria Trevi, has made a full comeback with her
public, including hordes of gay fans, since being
released from prison in late 2004.
• Her rebound single, “Everybody’s Watching
Me," hit No. 1 in Mexico. It chronicles a gay man’s
emergence from the closet. The album, How the
Universe Was Born, went platinum in the United
States.
In 2000, Trevi, her manager and a backup
singer were arrested in Brazil on charges of sexu
ally molesting young girls they allegedly enticed
into their inner circle by dangling promises of
stardom. After extradition to Mexico and nearly
five years behind bars, Trevi, 38, was acquitted of
rape, kidnapping and corrupting minors.
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horrified and “jumped back" as soon as the man
came out to him.
Akinoia supports draconian anti-gay legislation
that is expected to pass Nigeria’s National Assembly
this year. The measure seemingly could outlaw
things such as belonging to a gay group, reading a
gay book, watching a gay movie, visiting a gay
Internet site and socializing by two or more gay
people. For good measure, the bill also bans same-
sex marriage. Violating the proposed law would
result in up to five years in prison.
The bill states, in part: “Publicity, procession
and public show of same-sex amorous relationship
through the electronic or print media physically,
directly, indirectly or otherwise are prohibited in
Nigeria. Any person who is involved in the regis
tration of gay clubs, societies and organizations,
sustenance, procession or meetings, publicity and
public show of same-sex amorous relationship
directly or indirectly in public and in private is
guilty of an offense and liable on conviction to a tenn
of five years imprisonment."
Gay sex already is illegal in Nigeria. It is
punished with death in Muslim areas of the nation
and with jail time in Christian sections.
Akinoia denies he has violated Anglican rules
prohibiting bishops from controlling parishes out
side a bishop’s territory. He says the convocation
was formed to serve theologically conservative
Nigerian Anglicans living in the United States and
that it then began attracting conservative
American Episcopalians.
The Anglican Communion is a confederation
of national churches that have a total of 77 million
members, more than 15 million of them in Nigeria.
There are 26 million Anglicans in England, 8 mil
lion in Uganda, 5 million in Sudan, 4 million in
Australia, 2.5 million in Kenya, 2.4 million in the
United States, 2 million in Tanzania, 800,000 in
Canada, half a million in New Zealand and small
er numbers in numerous other nations. ©
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Twenty-one Episcopal churches around the
United States have disaffiliated from the Episcopal
Church USA, part of the worldwide Anglican
Communion, and linked up instead with the
powerful, anti-gay Anglican Primate of Nigeria,
Archbishop Peter Akinoia.
The U.S. parishes, now members of Akinola’s
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North America, oppose the Episcopal Church’s
consecration of openly gay New Hampshire Bishop
Gene Robinson and its support for blessing same-
sex relationships.
Akinola’s growing power—Nigeria has more
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In a recent interview with The New York Times,
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be a man’s companion? Or better still, why didn’t
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