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South African AIDS Leader Marries
Well-known South African AIDS activist
Zackie Achmat and his activist boyfriend, Dalli
Weyers, were married Jan. 5 near Cape Town.
South Africa is one of six nations where same-sex
couples have access to full marriage.
Hundreds of people attended the wedding,
including Mayor Helen Zille. Gay High Court
Judge Edwin Cameron conducted the ceremony,
sporting eye glitter for the occasion.
The wedding cake was a chocolate brownie
tower with a king and a cowboy on top.
Achmat, 45, is the founder and chairman of the South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat took
Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa’s lead­ advantage of the country's full marriage equality
and wed his same-sex partner Jan. 5.
ing AIDS activist organization.
“We decided that the marriage statement as
AMERICAS
a same-sex couple was a profound one, and we
Brazilian Gay Activist Murdered
want the union to be seen as equal,” Weyers told
The Sunday Times before the wedding.
Brazilian gay activist Francisco Tecio de
Same-sex marriage also is legal in Belgium,
Oliveira Soares was stabbed to death Jan. 3. His
Canada, the Netherlands, Spain and the United
naked body was found in the hair salon he ran in
States (Massachusetts only). Numerous nations
the northeastern city of Crato.
(and eight U.S. states and the District of
Police have speculated the killing was a crime
Columbia) offer civil unions or registered partner­ of passion, given that nothing was stolen from the
ships that grant same-sex couples some, most or all
salon. Tecio, 38, organized several local Gay Pride
of the rights and obligations of matrimony.
parades and had been involved in gay activism for
more than two decades.
Homosexual Convictions
of Six Moroccans Upheld
A Moroccan appeals court Jan. 15 upheld the
convictions of six men from Ksar el Kbir who were
jailed for homosexual acts in late November after
a YouTube video showing them at a supposed same-
sex wedding celebration provoked public outrage.
The 10-month sentence against the party’s
alleged organizer, who also was charged with selling
alcohol, was upheld in full, while the other five
men saw their sentences reduced from between four
and six months to between two and four months.
Amnesty International says the men are prison­
ers of conscience, and the men’s lawyers claim that
prosecutors have presented no evidence that any
crime took place.
Morocco’s Penal Code Article 489 bans “lewd
or unnatural acts with an individual of the same
sex” under penalty of six months to three years in
prison and a fine of $15 to $150.
Human Rights Watch has said the men were
convicted “without apparent evidence.”
“The men’s rights to privacy and freedom of
expression have been violated,” said North Africa
programs director Sarah Leah Whitson. “They
should be set free.”
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Dutch Artist Receives Death
Threats Over Gay Muslim Photos
Dutch artist Sooreh Hera, an Iranian exile, has
received death threats and gone into hiding after
a museum in The Hague planned to display her
photos of gay men wearing masks of the prophet
Muhammad.
“They said to me, ‘We’re going to burn you
naked or put a bullet in your mouth,’ ” Hera, 34,
told London’s The Times. “They condemn homo­
sexuality, but in countries like Iran or Saudi Arabia
it is common for married men to maintain relations
with other men.”
The municipal museum later decided not to
mount the photos because, said director Wim van
Krimpen, “certain people in our society might per­
ceive it as offensive.”
Hera accused van Krimpen of “censorship” and
caving in to “pressure from Islamists” and withdrew
the rest of her pictures from the exhibition.
A museum in Gouda then said it will put up the
photos. The director of that institution has
received death threats and is under police protec­
tion, The Times said.
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