SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
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us do the work for you.
by the colonial government on
view a 90-second black-
the more tolerant traditions
and-white art film of two
of India. Through laws like
men kissing.
Section 377, the British im
The vandals smashed
posed Victorian ideas of mo
the window.
rality that have come back to
The following day,
haunt us in the form of rising
openly gay Mayor Klaus
India's
Prince
Manvendra
Singh
HIV rates among queer men
Wowereit joined a dem
Gohil, who is gay, called for the
who are forced to have sex
onstration at the site,
decriminalization of consensual gay
in secret and unsafely, in the
saying: “An attack against
sex Aug. 16 at the Queer Freedom
form of persecution of hijras
this memorial is clearly
March.
[eunuchsj who are treated as
directed against homo-
unnatural despite their ancient history in India,
sexuals—that can be said without waiting for further
and in the form of the suppression of the lives of police investigations. We must show our condemna-
women who love women.”
tion of this act of intolerance and homophobia.”
Ironically, the $942,000 box—designed by the
Section 377 bans gay sex under penalty of up
to 10 years in prison. An ongoing court case could
Danish-Norwegian duo Michael Elmgreen and
see the law “read down” so it no longer applies to
Ingar Dragset and paid for by the federal govern
consensual sex between adults.
ment—is accompanied by a plaque that reads, “A
simple kiss could land you in trouble.”
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Bashkortostan to Name Street
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Ufa, the capital of the Russian republic of
Bashkortostan, will name a street after the late bal
let great Rudolf Nureyev.
The decision by the City Council comes after
two years of deliberations—a delay that activ
ists said was caused, in part, by discomfort over
Nureyev’s gayness. Nureyev, who grew up in the
republic, died of AIDS complications in 1993.
Berlin Gay Holocaust
Memorial Vandalized
Berlin’s new memorial commemorating the
tens of thousands of gays persecuted by the Nazis
was damaged by vandals Aug. 16.
The large, gray rectangular block—11.8 feet
tall and 6.2 feet wide—is breached only by a small
window on one side through which visitors can
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ballet great Rudolf Nureyev, who died of
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persecuted because of their sexual identity, ho
mosexual love is a criminal offense and a kiss can
spell danger,” it says.
The memorial, unveiled May 27, sits in
Tiergarten Park, half a block from the Brandenburg
Gate across from the Memorial to the Murdered
Jews of Europe.
Some 54,000 gays were arrested by the Nazis,
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