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DECEMBER 21. 7007 |UStOUt 21 Auto, Home, Life, Health & Business executions carried out solely for the crime of consensual adult gay sex. The group also believes executions solely for gay sex are taking place out of the public eye. “Our suspicions [are] that their current practice really is to rid society of lesbians and gay men,” the organization said in July. epb&b “Your Independent Insurance Agency" insurance Elliott, Powell, Baden Ac Baker, Inc. ® a Kyrgyzstan Sees First Gay Pamphlet The first-ever Kyrgyz-language pamphlet on gay issues has hit the streets of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, the British Broadcasting Corp, reported. Syinat Sultanalieva of the local lesbian, bi sexual and transgender group Labrys said 5,000 copies of the brochure were printed. It “aims at providing objective and open information about homosexuals and calls for an understanding attitude toward them,” she said. Although gay sex is illegal in Singapore, U.S. Christian singers Jason and deMarco were given “The cases when such people are subjected to permission to play a show there after insisting that discrimination and beatings are not far apart. In our their focus was HIV prevention and education. country the plight of those outside of traditional quoted Ettelbrick as saying, “This is a stunning victo sexual orientation does not seem to touch anyone. ry for human rights and a reminder of the power of They are considered outcasts.” global protest.” Sultanalieva hopes the pamphlet will educate In the e-mail, Long said: “Announcing publicly society on gays’ lives, inner thoughts and feelings, bow international pressure has swayed Iranian and sorrows. Labrys head Anna Kirey told the net authorities often backfires and makes different fac work that-open homosexuals are rare in Kyrgyzstan tions in the confusion of Iranian politics deter because gay people “are afraid of those surrounding mined to show that international pressure hasn’t them.” swayed them. Saying a ‘homosexual’ had been par doned very possibly didn’t help.” U.S. Gay Singers Perform Gay sex is punishable with the death penalty in in Singapore Iran. U.S. Christian singers Jason and deMarco, who “We should not be speculating willfully that— are a gay couple, received permission to perform though he may be innocent of one crime—he’s Dec. 13 in Singapore. guilty, before Iranian law, of another," Long said. The decision was a surprise given that the “What is the benefit in that.7 How does that help government has been on a gay-ban spree this year, him? ...Please, please, think before acting, and let prohibiting a gay photo exhibition, a gay story us not put our egos and our identity politics before reading event, a forum on gay legal issues and a young man’s life.” a speech by Metropolitan Community Churches In an interview, 1GLHRC communications founder Troy Perry. Gay sex is illegal in Singapore coordinator Hossein Aiizadeh responded that all of and punishable with two years in prison. the group’s actions in Mouloodzadeh’s case were But Jason and deMarco, who were banned as coordinated with, and approved by, Mouloodzadeh’s recently as 2005, got a green light this time after attorney, Saeed Eghbali. organizers convinced the Media Development The group has become increasingly vocal in the Authority that “the aim of the concert is AIDS past six months about Iran’s ongoing executions of education and HIV prevention...targeted at the teens and men accused of engaging in sodomy, even high-risk groups,” a spokesperson for Media Development Authority said. © though in nearly all the cases that have been pub licized, the individuals were accused of other crimes R ex W cx .KNER has reported for the gay press since as well, such as rape. The organization has said it suspects that other 1985. 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