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DVD News - TV-series on DVD

When your favorite TV series come out on DVD and you decide to buy them, you’d expect to get the complete series, of course. “Seinfeld,” for example, is still being released new and popular DVD-boxes. So we were excited when the first seasons of “The Golden Girls” were released. However, after season 3 they all of a sudden stopped. All seven seasons of “The Golden Girls” have been available on DVD in America for years already and they’re easily ordered from Amazon.com.

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Pink Point - Is Nothing What It Seems Anymore?

To The Point - True stories from Pink Point, the gay and lesbian info kiosk at the Homomonument. See http://www.pinkpoint.org

Now that I’m already in my seventh season of volunteering at Pink Point I’ve got a nice collection of anecdotes for this column. I often return home from a day’s work at “the Point” with stories of which you later think: that can’t have really happened. Is my mind playing tricks on me or did fate really bring these people onto my path?

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Gay Arabs Begin To Organize In Israel

A rare gathering of openly gay Arab activists will be held in Israel shortly, drawing the ire of religious conservatives. Headlined “Home and Exile,” the March 28 meeting is meant to spark discussion of homosexuality among Israel’s one million Arab citizens. The conference is being organized by Aswat, an Arab lesbian group based in Haifa. Around 100 to 150 people are expected to show up. With homosexuality a taboo topic in much of the Arab world, the meeting is important simply because it is taking place.

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Roze Wester Festival At The Homomonument

Queen’s Day Eve – Queen’s Day

“And the Winner is... Amsterdam!” Miss Jennifer Hopelezz is proud to announce that the fourth international Drag Queen Olympics have been awarded, yet again, to the City of Amsterdam. Amsterdam edged out other competing cities such as London, Berlin and Barcelona to secure the Games once more.

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Time For The NOW Man - The Second Passion Of Photographer Johan van Breukelen

Johan van Breukelen is known in gay Holland as a photographer and artist, and his photos are now on display in Mr. B, the leather and rubber shop on the Warmoesstraat. Van Breukelen’s erotic photos appear to be more painting than photo. He calls his photos “painting with light” and he considers himself more of a visual artist than a photographer. In 1995 he also was joint founder of the Men’s Work Foundation (Stichting Mannenwerk), which gives (gay) men the chance to meet each other in a different, more intense, setting than is usual in the pubs and clubs. A conversation about the unfamiliar side of this respected (men’s) photographer.

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Fasion - DK Man by Dyrberg/Kern

The Scandinavian label Dyrberg/Kern is proof that jewelry is not just for women anymore. The clean and Scandinavian design, with fashionable and sexy details, is again expressed in an extraordinary collection for men. The cool modern luxury with a rebellious look was the main source of inspiration this time. The collection contains gadgets such as colliers, hangers with leather cords, chains and rings, but also essentials such as the money bills clip, cufflinks, and a credit card holder.

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Michael Jackson Upset By Gay Porn Connection

Michael Jackson tried to fire the man he hired to produce a benefit recording for victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks after learning the associate once directed gay porn movies, according to the entertainer’s former lawyer. Zia Modabber testified early July that he broke the news to Jackson about F. Marc Schaffel’s background, showing him a video of Schaffel at an adult film shoot. “I think he didn’t want to believe it was real or true,” said Modabber. “He appeared angry, upset.”

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Travel - Gay in Turkey

Turkey lies in between Europe and Asia. The Aya Sophia and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul face each other as symbols of Christianity and the Islam. The Americans think the European Union should accept Turkey as a member state because it’s a bridge between Europe and Asia, East and West, the Islam and Christianity. In Europe we haven’t made up our minds yet. The Turkish gays and lesbians welcome a possible membership of the EU because they see it as a chance to further their struggle, the European gays and lesbians are wary of new member states like Poland, Rumania and Turkey because they could shift the balance within Europe towards conservative moral convictions.

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DVD News - O Fantasmo Obsessed By A Motor Cyclist

It may be shocking for some but this is a very erotically charged movie. The breakthrough for director Rodrigues? He’s made two documentaries and two short movies before. “O Fantasma” is a film about primal lust. Sergio (a beautiful character by Ricardo Meneses) is a garbage collector in Lisbon. His great (and only) friend is his dog Lorde. There’s a female colleague who’s interested in him (and who wouldn’t be), but Sergio prefers anonymous sex adventures with men (for example at a public toilet and a rape of a tied up police officer). Until he gets obsessed by a motor cyclist.

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More And More Gays Take The Backdoor

In 2003 the Schorer Foundation, together with the university of Maastricht, launched a first monitor research of gay and bisexual men in Amsterdam. Volunteers set out almost 900 questionnaires at gay meeting spots like bars, saunas, sex parties, the COC and sports clubs. The questionnaires were filled out and returned by 482 men.

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World Aids Day - LoveDance 2004

On Wednesday, December 1, a wide range of organizations presents the second edition of LoveDance, the spectacular final manifestation of the action week Take Care - Living PositHiv. Last year the coalition was united for the first time, to make the Night following World Aids Day a memorable event. After the huge success of last year this second LoveDance will again be an unrivaled party with performances and lots and lots of music.

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Homostudies - Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden

The major accomplishment of Jens Rydström in his study on Swedish bestiality and homosexuality is the confirmation of Michel Foucault’s theory of the change from a legal system of forbidden acts to a medical system of marginalized identities in the first volume of Histoire de la Sexualité (1976). Swedish courts routinely condemned “unnatural fornication” (as male and female homosexuality and bestiality were called since the law reform of 1864) as a criminal offense till the early twentieth century.

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Film News

At the cinema (soon)

Edge of Seventeen

From Boy George to the Eurithmics and from fluoresce shirts to rock hard hair gel: the summer of 1984 was as eighties as the eighties ever could be. The seventeen year old Eric Hunter from the provincial town Sandusky, Ohio, is completely trapped in it. Together with his girlfriend Maggie he temporarily changes his brown polyester school uniform for a summer job at the fast food restaurant of the local amusement park.

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Pink Point Chit Chat

A series of interviews with people at Pink Point, the gay information kiosk at the Homomonument.

When the Homomonument Foundation called for submissions in 1980 for a new monument to commemorate "the oppression of homosexuals, as well as to inspire future generations in their struggle against discrimination," they received 137 proposals. Artist Karin Daan's design was the unanimous winner.

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Pink Point Chit Chat

The last month was a busy one at the Homomonument. Not only were there two huge parties (the annual Roze Wester Festival on Queen's Day and Liberation Day) and a Remembrance Ceremony at the monument, but also a spontaneous demonstration on April 24th. The demonstation was a protest against the book "The Way of the Moslim" published in 1964 and found recently in the El-Tawheed Mosque in Amsterdam West, in which a passage called on Moslims to "throw homosexuals head down from the highest building and then stone them." Following are quotes from five of the main speakers on that day

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Life Behind Bars For Gay Massage Parlour Slayings

In March, the two men responsible for the brutal slayings at Sizzlers, a gay massage parlour in Capetown, on January 19 last year, where each sentenced to nine life terms in prison. They were found guilty on nine charges of murder and one of attempted murder. Former waiter Adam Woest, 27, and taxi driver Trevor Theys, 43, both admitted that they were involved in the gruesome deed, but they blamed each other for the killings.

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Poet Thom Gunn Dies At 74

On April 25 the poet Thom Gunn died at his home in San Francisco, his adopted hometown. Thomson William Gunn was born on August 29 1929 in Gravesend, Kent, England and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote his first poem for a student magazine, and its success prompted him to adopt that medium to express himself.

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Europride Held in Hamburg

Between June 4th and 13th Europride, the pan-European version of the Pride celebration will be held in the German town Hamburg under the motto "Love Breaks Barriers". After a week filled with activities, the event will come to a climax during the weekend of June 11th to 13th. On June 12th a Street Party will be held on Jungfernstieg, Hamburg's finest boulevard.

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Leather Pride Netherlands Calls Amsterdam Tourist Board to Account

In our April issue we reported about the strange refusal of the Amsterdam Tourist Board to distribute the free Gay Map Amsterdam, because they prefer to sell their own map, although this hardly contains any gay information. Our article prompted Leather Pride Nederland (LPN), a joint venture of Black Body, Rob, and Mister B., to call the Amsterdam Tourist Board to account in a letter dated April 29.

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Feuilleton - Come on, Marquis, jump

Although Strato of Sardes was not asked for at the final examinations for grammar school, Joris Vescht, third year art-history student and swotting at the Sorbonne for two semesters, knew what he was doing when he went aboard the TGV no 435 with destination Montélimar, local authority of the department of the Drome and capital of nougat.

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US Protests 'Torture' of Gay Murder Suspects

On March 19, the lifeless body of 42-year-old Mexican newspaper reporter Roberto Mora was discovered. He had been stabbed twenty-six times. On March 26, American Mario Medina, 23, en his partner Hiram Oliveros, 28, were arrested by the police. Police and prosecutors claim that Medina stabbed Mora in a misplaced fit of jealous rage, because he believed his domestic partner was having an affair with the married father.

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Faubourg - Wim van Gerven & Fanny Kiezenberg

From March 21 until April 10 the Faubourg Gallery shows recent works by Sacrevoir. This is the pseudonym of the German artist Heiko Noack, who knows how to capture with extreme sensitivity the vulnerability and subtle beauty of adolescence. On April 18 the opening of an exhibition with recent works by Wil van Gerven will take place.

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Gays in macho occupations

'I consider my crocodiles and boa constrictors to be my friends'

Not all gays are occupied as hair dresser, nurse, flight attendant or model. Also in the typical men’s world you’ll meet gays, who will tell their story in this column.

Ferry Torrez is a strong, big, tough, 35-year-old artist, who’s internationally performing under the name Les Torrez, it’s a show with his huge boa constrictors (pythons), crocodiles and bird spiders.

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How gay-minded is the Amsterdam Tourist Board?

How the Amsterdam Tourist Board (formally and nationally known as VVV) completely fails when it comes to providing gay information, which is completely free available in large amounts; but instead they provide gay tourists with a map which costs two euros which contains no gay information at all, and next to this they also act up as moralists. Here is the sad story of two tourists who were looking for gay information in Amsterdam.

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Short News

Many Gay Youths in Northern Ireland Have Attempted Suicide

A recent survey commissioned by the Department of Education in Northern Ireland shows that almost a third of gay youth have tried to kill themselves. The survey involved 362 persons under the age of 25, from both rural and urban areas. They were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire on-line or on paper.

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Rare New Infection Disease

Twenty-five men from the party scene in Amsterdam and Rotterdam have caught the sexually transmitted infection disease LGV (Lymphogranuloma Venereum). According to medical experts we are dealing with a rare situation, in Holland we never had a break out of this rare infection before. The decision has been made to act up together and to fight this disease. In all cases, it has occurred among men with homosexual sex contacts, mainly in the party scene.

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Homosexuality Among Animals Is Common

In this election year in the United States, the discussion about gay marriage seems to become more important every day. As we all know President Bush is vehemently opposed against the idea, and also his Democratic opponent, John Kerry, doesn't want to grant gay couples to right to marry although he want's them to have all the benefits married couples have. Outside of Washington the battle continues. In an increasing number of cities and states gay marriages are more or less officially celebrated.

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Short News

HIV Vaccin Trial

The Health Department Amsterdam is one of the participants in a trial for a HIV vaccin. Testing starts in March and will take eighteen months. The study will inquire into the safety of the vaccin and try to determine the most effective dose. The researchers will also look into the immunoreactions the vaccin might cause. The possible vaccin, HIVA.MVA, is designed as a preventive treatment. It's intended to protect against an infection with HIV.

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The hidden pleasures of Geneva

In memories of days gone by Geneva, at the gorgeous Lac Léman (or, as we foreigners call it, the Lake of Geneva), lingers on as an impressive city, very wealthy, smart, but also a bit too tidy. A world-class city due also to the international organisations which of old have favoured the neutral politic status of the Swiss nation. But also a city that never managed to show similar grandeur in its nightlife. Too much capital has put the breaks on developing a bustling nightlife, it seems. But everything changes, even Geneva.

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‘t Bölke in Enschede

Since 12 years now Frans Loohuis (41) and Hans Oudeheuvel (39) are the proud owners of bar/disco/restaurant/sauna ‘t Bölke’ in Enschede. One year ago the whole place underwent a complete transformation and was re-opened on December 12 last year with a grand party.

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Marc Bessange's French Affair

Contemporary male photography in France is on one side dominated by the glam pictures of "par excellence" Pierre & Gilles, while other photographers prefer to capture street urchins in all their unchiseled beauty

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