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14 Global Q-NOTES • MARCH 13 . 2004 Sat March 13 Double the Leather Party with Rogues of Va St Capital Leathermen Sat March 20 Adult Film Star - DC Chadler www.dcchandler.com with country night early^ Sat March 27 Fetish Party hosted by Tarheel Leather Club SEE^jEijaaa ews notes from around the globe National > Ellen show a hit minus the politics NEW YORK, N.Y. — Ellen DeGenercs’ syndicated daytime talk show is a hit despite what she admits is a lack of person al interest in Topic A for some other TV comedians — the Democratic presi dential primary. “1 haven’t even been paying atten tion. I’m not a political per son. ... 1 don’t know enough about what’s going on to say any thing,” DeGeneres tells Time magazine in the Feb. 23 issue. DeGeneres said it was “probably fair” to say she will support the Democrat chosen to challenge President George W. Bush, “but that being said, I real ly don’t know who it will be.” Seven years after a Time cover story in which the standup comic revealed that she was gay, DeGeneres said she considers that “the best thing 1 ever did for myself,” even though it caused temporary damage to her career. “That hurt my feelings in many ways. But once all that settled, I’m able to be exactly who 1 am and 1 have nothing to hide any more,” she said. Jackson: Gay marriage not big issue CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, in appearances at Harvard Law School and Holy Cross, supported equal protection for gay couples, but predicted it would not be a dominant issue in the 2004 presidential campaign. “Gays deserve the right of choice to choose their own partners,” Jackson told an overflow crowd at Holy Cross In Worcester. “If you don’t agree, don’t participate and don’t perform the service. In my culture, marriage is a man-woman rela tionship,” Jackson said, “but under the law, people have a right to choose their own part ner.” Earlier at Harvard before an audience of several hundred people, Jackson disputed those who equate the gay marriage cause with the civil rights movement. “The com parison with slavery is a stretch in that some slave masters were gay, in that gays were never called three-fifths human in the Constitution ... and in that they did not require the Voting Rights Act to have the right to vote,” Jackson said. “What is the same is that we all as citizens have the right to choose our partners.” At a luncheon during his Harvard visit, Jackson, responding to a question, said the gay mar riage issue could be treacher ous territory for the Democratic Party this election season. “It will not be the dominant issue in the 2004 campaign the right wing wants it to be," Jackson said. “It’s a Republican tactical strategy to distract from such issues as foreign policy and education.” International > King comments on gay marriages PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — After watch ing TV images of gay weddings in San Francisco, Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk said that homosexual couples should be allowed to get married. Since the Cambodian government chose in 1993 to be a “liber- . al democracy,” it should allow “marriage between man and man ... or between woman and woman,” the king said in a signed state ment in French posted on his website. The king, currently on a medical visit to Beijing, also said that transvestites should be “accepted and well-treated in our national community.” Sihanouk is a constitutional monarch with no executive powers but is highly respected in his country. Gay couples are not allowed to marry in Cambodia. Melbourne in the pink with tourists MELBOURNE, Australia — Melbourne is emerging as a must-visit destination for the world’s gay travelers. The city’s bars, the aters, cuisine, parks, skyline and gay-friend ly attitude have landed it the No. 2 spot on a list of top 10 international destinations. “With its tree-lined boulevards, intimate restaurants, thriving theater scene, Victorian architecture and a nightlife that easily rivals Sydney’s, Australia’s second city should come first on every antipodean visitor’s itin erary,” the gay.com website said. The site lists emerging destinations for gay tourists who are “fed up with following the well-trod lavender road to the end of that boring old rainbow.” Melbourne was nudged out of the top spot by Buenos Aires, Argentina, and came in ahead of Fort Lauderdale in the U.S., Vancouver in Canada and Hong Kong. Sydney, which hosts the annual Gay Mardi Gras, did not make the top 10. Joseph G. Jemsek, M.D. J. WesleyThbrripson, P.A.-C. Christine Fi.^ F.N.P. THE iPMSsEK CLIN 1C OF HUNT^SVILLE, NC General Internal Medicine Infectious Disease Women's Health Complementary & Nutritional Health HIV Care & Research "Serving the gay, lesbian, b'isexijial and transgender community." Board Certified: Infectious Disease & Internal Medicine Extended houris Wr.your convenience 16630 Northcross Driye]. Suite 102 (1-77, exit 25) Huntersville,,NC 28078 (704) 987-2111
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