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OCTOBER 19.2007 IU StiOUt MIDEAST/AFRICA Saudi Men Sentenced to 7,000 Lashes Coventry Cycle (/Works Two Saudi men convicted of sodomy have Let me earn your business Portland Metro Real Estate Steve Buchert Residential Broker received the first set of 7,000 lashes in punishment, 14 years experience helping buyers and sellers in Portland the Okaz daily newspaper reported Oct. 4. The public whipping took place Oct. 2 in the southwestern city of Al Bahah, rhe paper said. The Recumbento Folding Biked ...and dlore! men were not named. After the beatings, they were returned to prison to await further sets of whippings. The report did not specify how many lashes are meted out each time. A crowd of Columbia University students laughed and booed when President Ahmadinejad said Iran has no gays. Open Tuesday-Sunday (503) 230-7723 2025 SE Hawthorne President Ahmadinejad: Iran Has No Homosexuals 503.970.3801 Buchert@Hassan.cbzn fflljiHrnHHnnnruniji HASSON Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sak Tverskoi District Court Judge Natalya Dyatlova the demonstrators had Sept. 24 that there are no homosexuals in Iran. violated Answering students’ questions at Columbia Article 20.2 of the Code on Administrative University in New York City, he said: “In Iran, we Offenses by staging an unauthorized public event. don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We Only protest organizer Alexey Davydov received don’t have that in our country. In Iran, we do not the higher fine. have this phenomenon; 1 don’t know who’s told determined Russia banned gays from donating blood in you that we have it.” 2001. The general prosecutor’s office has since The audience laughed and booed. determined that the ban is illegal, but the ministry Arsham Parsi, head of the Toronto-based has failed to lift it, said Nikolai Alekseev of Project Iranian Queer Organization, posted a reply online GayRussia.Ru. that said: “Mr. Ahmadi Nejad, please tell me...who “We are going to appeal the court decision (and I am?” if] necessary, we are ready to take the cases of those International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights activists up to the European Court of Human Commission executive director Paula Ettelbrick Rights,” he said. commented: “The Iranian president’s stark denial of our reality reflects his government’s ongoing AMERICAS Guatemalan Bill Targets Gay Families Legislation pending in Guatemala’s Congress Our professionals urid arrange your delivery YOUR DOMESTIC PARTNER Don Duncan owner refusal to recognize the basic human rights of LGBT people. 1GLHRC and other human rights Teleflora (503) 642-9992 1-800-356-1884 Aloha Market Centre 20455 SW TV Highway www.westsideflorist.net DHARMA RAIN ZEN CENTER 2539 Southeast Madsion, Portland. OR 97214 503 239 4846 wwwdharma-rain.org organizations have documented widespread and systematic violations of the rights of members of The Integral Protection for Marriage and ese said: “Today’s assertions.. .would be simply absurd Family Act would bar single parents and same-sex were it not for the fact that international human Roger Mosser couples from the definition of “family” and punish rights watchers have long documented some of the Real Estate Broker any Guatemalan official who publicly contradicts most horrific acts of persecution and violence the definition. committed against gay people in Iran. These acts of would define “family” solely as a father, a mother and their child or children. the...LGBT community in Iran.” Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmon- “Family essentially originates, exclusively, from tenor have included incarcerations, beatings and the conjugal union between a man and a woman... brutal executions. Ahmadinejad’s denial that there through marriage or through a legally declared de are gay people in Iran shows the extent to which he facto union and other social forms, such as a religious devalues the lives of the many citizens his govern ceremony or ritual, custom or cultural practice, as the ment has and continues to violate.” only natural design,” the bill states. Scott Long, director of Human Rights Watch’s Human Rights Watch denounced the measure LGBT Rights Program, called Ahmadinejad’s denial Oct. 1, saying it “would declare that nearly 40 per of the existence of Iranian gays “a sick joke,” affirm cent of Guatemalan families.. .are not families at all.” ing that Iran tortures gays and that the penal code “This bill takes aim at lesbian and gay couples, but it has almost half of Guatemalan children and parents in its sights,” said HRW gay rights researcher punishes sex between men with the death penalty. The Columbia Queer Alliance, however, had The alliance’s executive board issued a letter to caregivers in the name of a political agenda is not its members Sept. 23 that contained this admoni only unjustifiable, it is morally reprehensible.” tion: “We would like to strongly caution media and campus organizations against the use of such words as ‘gay,’ ‘lesbian’ or ‘homosexual’ to describe people in Iran who engage in same-sex practices and feel The International Gay and Lesbian Football same-sex desire. The construction of sexual orien Association held its 10th World Championship tation as a social and political identity and all of from Sept. 23 to 29 in Buenos Aires, drawing 500 the vocabulary therein is a Western cultural idiom. soccer players from 28 teams around the world. As such, scholars of sexuality in the Middle East Argentina’s Los Dogos defeated reigning champ generally use the terms ‘same-sex practices’ and Stonewall Fcx>tball Club from London in a 1-0 shut ‘same-sex desire’ in recognition of the inadequacy of Western terminology.” © out Sept. 29 to capture the gay soccer world cup. Anniversary Partyl TVdat cutt Mg next? FINALLY WE NAVE A VIABLE MAYORAL CANDIDATE! s A A0 A M A Y Ì 1 a different take on the matter. Juliana Cano Nieto. “Targeting children and their Gay Soccer Championship Held in Buenos Aires Open House (Warmmg) and z Sunday, Nov 4 2-6 pm . 6234 N. Greeley * It was the first time the event, which received substantial support from the Argentine Ftxitball R ex WocKNER has reported for the gay press since Asstxziation, had been held in Latin America. Other 1985. 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