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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.
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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. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from
Drake University and started his career as a radio
charges often are tacked on to sodomy cases to
prevent the public outrage that would accompany
reporter.
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