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Kandahar: Closely Watched Pashtuns. (Essay).(media coverage of homosexuality in Afghanistan)
SOON AFTER American troops entered Afghanistan following the events of 9/11/2001, reports began to appear in major press outlets documenting a phenomenon that had previously received scant attention: widespread homosexual activity among Afghan men, in particular among the Pashtun of the southern region of Kandahar. It seemed that Western forces sent into Afghanistan to liberate Afghan women had unwittingly liberated Afghan homosexuals, and Western journalists weren't sure what to make of that. The idea of homosexuality among rugged Afghan fighters was treated--often within the same article--both as a cultural curiosity and as an instance of abusive pedophilia. In the end, ...
- Consensual Homosexual Activity in Male Prisons.(Statistical Data Included)
- Newspaper article from: Corrections Compendium Hensley, Christopher January 1, 2001 700+ words
...attention and debate than consensual homosexual activity in prison literature (Bowker...focused on the amount of consensual homosexual activity in male prisons (Saum, Surratt...prison had engaged in consensual homosexual activity while incarcerated. Unfortunately...
- Homosexual activity outlawed.(Zanzibar)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight January 1, 2005 700+ words
Zanzibar's parliament has passed a bill outlawing homosexual activity with prison terms of up to 25 years for "gay" relationships. Zanzibar is a semiautonomous island in the Indian Ocean that forms part of Tanzania. It is mainly Muslim (CBC, April 14, 2004).
- Health, wealth and homosexual activity.
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight John B. Shea September 1, 1996 700+ words
...a public statement that there was no scientific evidence to back such a claim. This raises two questions: is homosexual activity healthy and does it contribute to the economy? Health facts 1. Health Canada reported March 31, 1996, that...
- Virginia law makes homosexual activity a crime. (Originated from Newport News...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Blattner, Bob September 8, 1993 700+ words
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. _ Virginia law clearly forbids homosexual activity. ``Crimes against nature,'' or sodomy, is a Class 6 felony punishable by up to five years in the state penitentiary. The...
- Call of conscience: what is not morally acceptable is the legal approval of...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight May 1, 1996 700+ words
...does so because every human person is worthy of respect. What is not morally acceptable is the legal approval of homosexual activity. Being understanding towards the sinner who is unable to free himself from this tendency is not the same as lessening...
- RUSSIA: ANTI-GAY BILL CRITICIZED...(initiative of the People's Deputy group to...
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database April 25, 2002 700+ words
...faction and Russian Regions group have criticized the initiative of the People's Deputy group to criminalize homosexual activity, Interfax reported on 23 April. Russian Regions head Oleg Morozov said, "Let them have a hearty talk with...
- OBU officials reject 2nd visit by gay group: Activists target university for...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK) March 7, 2007 700+ words
...allowed in the university's student center to talk to students individually about OBU's policies forbidding homosexual activity by students. This year, they'll be asked to stay off campus -- or risk being arrested, OBU spokesman Marty...
- Effects of AIDS on homosexual activity reported to conference by Dr. David G....
- Press release article from: PR Newswire June 18, 1984 700+ words
CHICAGO, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The surge in cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the last few years has led to a significant reduction in the frequency of sexual intercourse and types of sexual activities of homosexual men, researchers said today. Results of a study done at the
