Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 14:26:32 +0200 (MSZ)
From: Bj|rn Skolander <Bjorn.Skolander@nordiska.uu.se>
Subject: Bulgaria: Homosexuality Banned from TV 


OMRI DAILY DIGEST
No. 143, Part II, 25 July 1995


BULGARIAN TV CHIEF CANCELS ENTERTAINMENT SHOWS. Ivan Granitski, director
of Bulgarian National Television, announced on 23 July he is canceling
two weekly entertainment programs, international media reported the same
day. The two programs are a beauty contest and a game show. Granitski,
who was appointed by the Socialist majority in June, said he will ban
programs "propagating, violence, *homosexuality*, prostitution, gambling,
and drug addiction" as part of his "struggle for higher professional and
artistic levels of programs and against those [who] oppose national
interests." Prosecutor-General Ivan Tatarchev said he fully supports
Granitski's move because "national interests" require it. A commentator
for the independent weekly 168 chasa called the move "sheer nonsense."
-- Stefan Krause, OMRI, Inc.