Canada's Anglican bishops apologized October 30 for having been nasty to gays but then went on to insult them.

A pastoral statement issued at the bishops' national convention said: "The story of the Church's attitude to gay and lesbian people has too often been one of standing at a distance, even of prejudice, ignorance and oppression. All of us need to acknowledge this and to repent for any part we may have had in creating it."

But the statement added that gay candidates for ordination must "shape their relationships so as to provide a wholesome example to the people of God. Exemplary behavior for persons who are not married includes a commitment to remain chaste."

The Royal British Legion denounced the London gay group OutRage! November 2 for laying pink carnations at the Cenotaph Memorial.

OutRage!'s "Queer Remembrance Day," in honor of gays who served and died in the military, preceded by one week Britain's official Remembrance Sunday commemoration.

"Actions of a political nature at a national memorial, especially at a time of remembrance, are bound to be distasteful to many people," the veterans' group said. "It is also bound to offend many former soldiers."

Britain bans homosexuals from its armed forces but the policy likely will be struck down as a result of lawsuits winding their way through both the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.

The new Ukrainian gay magazine Our World sent a free copy to 81 media outlets and only got one bite back.

"The magazine has appeared absolutely unclaimed by the mass media," said Editor Andrei Maimulakhin.

In other news, the Ukrainian gay magazine One Of Us has split into two publications after the publisher, the Demetrios agency, and the editor, Leonid Nefedovich, had a falling out.

The last issue of the magazine was distributed free to 43 gay organizations across the Ukraine and others in Belarus and Moldova.

In yet other Ukrainian news, the free acquaintance service Gay Rose has shut down temporarily while its founder serves a two- year sentence for using photocopied postage stamps.

Our World magazine may be ordered from P.O. Box 62, 348051 Lugansk, Ukraine. E-mail: editor@ourworld.lugansk.ua