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JULY 20. 2007 Great Healthcare... Happy People! In Guayaquil, Ecuador, the second annual Festival of Art and Diversity brought 300 people to the Kennedy Mall district June 28 under the theme “The problerp is not homosexuality hut rather homophobia.” Stage performances ran from 6 p.m. to midnight. The third Pride parade in Panama City took place June 30 on Argentina Way, ending at Andrés Bello Park. Some 260 participants carried signs demanding equal rights and urging tolerance and safe sex. Organizers also announced 10 winners of their new Pink Egg prize, awarded to people who “have committed the most acts of discrimination against the GLBT population of Panama.” jUSt|OUt 19 P . w/'l Bridge City.,. Your Clinic That Cares! 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New Buenos Aires Mayor The protesters said Luzhkov doesn’t deserve to Was Once Anti-Gay visit the EU because he has twice banned Moscow’s Newly elected Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Gay Pride parade, calling it “satanic.” Macri once told a daily newspaper that gay people Police halted the protest and arrested its appar are sick. ent leaders even though the activists had a permit In a 1997 interview with Página/12, Macri was for the event. They were charged with “breach of asked if he’d accept gay players on the Boca Juniors a street demonstration order.” soccer team he owns. “The formal reason {for the police action! was He answered: “This situation hasn’t come up. the construction which had suddenly appeared in It’s a complicated situation. It’s a sickness. This is front of European Commission office just a day not a 100 percent healthy person. It’s an undesir ago,” said gay activist Nikolai Baev. “The police able deviation." argued it could not protect demonstrators in this The interviewer responded that seeing homo situation.... There was no construction technique, sexuality as a sickness is “a bit of an old-fashioned just two holes digged on a huge and enclosed area. idea." Perhaps this ‘construction’ will disappear in few And Macri replied: “Would you be happy if days as suddenly as it appeared.” your son were homosexual? Please. The world has The picket had received approval from city made us so we join with a woman. Why are we officials June 25. The people who requested the going to join with a man?” permission were not known to the city as gay By last month, however, Macri had moderated activists. But the media then reported that the his stance. Answering a candidate questionnaire picket was related to Luzhkov’s anti-gay actions. from the organization Argentina Homosexual On June 26, the organizers received phone calls Community, he said, “Society as a whole needs from officials saying the picket could not be held public campaigns that discourage and condemn all because of street construction. On June 27, the types of violence and discrimination, and that authorities announced they could not guarantee includes sexual orientation.” the safety of the protesters. On June 28, at the pick But Macri was otherwise cautious in answering et itself, police then produced a document banning several specific questions, choosing to speak against the event. discrimination in general and not committing to “Activists applied [for] this picket as a demon any other specific actions on behalf of gay people. stration which formally was not related to the ASIA/PACIFIC Moscow gay community,” said Baev. “Among pick Gays to Be Protected et organizers was no one who was known by the in New Thai Constitution homophobic authorities as gay or lesbian activist. Therefore, the picket was originally approved in The Thai government’s Constitutional Drafting such an easy way. But as soon as mass media Assembly reportedly has agreed to include queer announced the picket as a demonstration of LGBT people in the new constitution, adding a clause people, the Moscow authorities decided to cancel protecting “those of other sexual identities” from the rally.... This is a very clear example of homo- discrimination. phobic discrimination which is practiced by the The vote by the 100-member committee was Luzhkov administration." unanimous. The draft constitution will be put to The picketers did manage to deliver a letter to a national referendum in August. the European Commission office demanding that The current Thai government was installed by Luzhkov’s EU visa be revoked. Addressed to EC the military after a coup d’état in September 2006. © President José Manuel Barroso, the letter detailed Luzhkov’s “homophobic... violations of freedom of R ex WOCKNER has reported for the gay press since assembly.” 1985. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from For the past two years, attempts to stage banned Drake University and started his career as a radio Pride events in Moscow have ended in violence reporter. and bloodshed. In Your Life, In Your Investments E3<&rREED financial Advisors'* Investing. With a plan? 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