Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1992)
just out ▼ January 1002 ▼ 5 w orld b rie fs ARGENTINA: The Supreme Court o f Ar gentina, in a 7-2 ruling, refused to legalize the country’s only gay-rights group, Comunidad Homosexual Argentina, leaving the group unable to rent an office, open a bank account, accept donations or conduct other routine business. AUSTRALIA: The lower house of the Tas manian parliament, the House of Assembly, passed a measure last month to ban discrimination against gays in employment, accommodations and the provision of goods and services. AUSTRIA: Following government promises to repeal laws that ban gay organizations and the promotion of homosexuality, activists have tar geted the nation’s final anti-gay law, which sets a higher age of sexual consent for gay men. BELGIUM : The groundbreaking Interna tional Lesbian and Gay Association will lay off its only employee Dec. 31. The group is $13,000 in debt and appeals for contributions and new members have failed. V ▼ V A European Community document has ad dressed gays and lesbians for the first time. New EC guidelines entitled “Protecting the Dignity of Women and Men at Work: A Code of Practice on Measures to Combat Sexual Harassment” note that “lesbians....are disproportionately at risk. Gay men and young men are also vulnerable to ha rassm ent” The pro-gay swing follows a meeting between EC Social Affairs Commissioner and representatives of the International Lesbian and Gay Association. CA N A D A : G ay-ghetto voters elected Toronto’s first openly gay city councilor. Kyle Rae joins the three-man Canadian club of Gordon Price in Vancouver, Raymond Blain in Montreal and Grant Murray in Winnipeg. Xtra! ▼ ▼ ▼ New Brunswick is expected to add “sexual orientation” to its human rights act. Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and the Yukon Territory already protect gays and lesbians from discrimination. ▼ ▼ ▼ Calgary, Alberta. Mayor A1 Du err and the City Council will not declare Gay Rights Week this year because last year’s proclamation caused Duerr “the most difficult time I’ve ever gone through.” FundamentalistChristians opposed the proclamation. Duerr said he “still strongly supports) rights for the gay community-equal rights before law, which they do not presently enjoy.” ?▼ ? After a year o f controversy, members of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Nova Scotia voted that no one may dance shirtless at its club. Rumours, Halifax’s leading gay establishment. Lesbians had argued the club discriminated against them by letting men but not women dance shirtless. During Pride Week, a large number o f lesbians illegally danced topless in protest GALA also formed a Shirtlessness Lobbying Committee to urge the Liquor License Board and the provincial government to allow women to go topless in public. CHINA: The way to control AIDS is “to eliminate deviant behavior,” the official Xinhau News Agency quoted Guangdong Province offi cials saying last month. COLOM BIA: “Socialclean-updeathsquads” have murdered hundreds of gay men in the past seven years, the International Lesbian and Gay Association reported last month. Amnesty International has implicated the Co lombian government in the death-squad killings. And ILG A charges that the murders are not inves tigated because of “police and military complic ity.” ENGLAND: Gay and Lesbian Motorcyclists of Europe is a new federation of biker clubs from Britain, Holland and Switzerland. It has 500 members. Write GMBCC, c/o Gay Switchboard, 31a Mansfield Road, Nottingham NG1 3FF, En gland. FRANCE: ACT UP/Paris staged France’s largest AIDS demonstration to date on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. About 2,000 demonstrators marched through the Marais gay district, chanting for gays in bars to come out and join the fight against the disease. The activists hung a 50-square-meter banner from the second floor of the Beaubourg Museum proclaiming,“SIDA: Decretezl’etatd ’urgence!” (“AIDS— Declare a State of Emergency!”). Pro testors also collapsed in a large “die-in.” G R EEC E: The lesbian editor of Greece’s oldest gay magazine was sentenced to five months in prison and a $300 fine last month for publishing material that is “indecent and offensive to public feeling.” The magazine had received requests from heterosexual men looking to meet lesbians, so Petropoulou published an announcement re minding straight men they “have nothing in common to share in bed” with lesbians. JA PA N : OCCUR, the leading gay group, continues its groundbreaking campaign against the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which will not rent overnight rooms at Tokyo Youth Centers to gay groups. A lawsuit-Japan’s first gay rights suit-is pending. V ▼ V Under pressure from OCCUR, the publisher of Japan ’ s most authoritative dictionary has revised its inaccurate definition of “homosexuality.” The “Kojien” dictionary had defined homosexuality as a “perversion of being attracted to members of the same sex.” Homosexuality was also an ex ample under the entry for “perversion.” NETHERLANDS: The Ministry of Defense announced that gay soldiers sent to foreign countries may take their lovers with them. ▼ T V The Second European Conference on Homo sexuality and HIV is Feb. 14-16 in Amsterdam. N IG ER IA : A previously unknown gay group has contacted the International Lesbian and Gay Association-making Nigeria the fifth African nation known to have developed a gay movement. Nigerian Gentlemen Alliance parties havebrought together as many as 1,500 gay men. NORW AY: Gay activists last month de nounced new immigration rules for unmarried partners. For a foreign lover to be granted resi dency, a couple now must prove they have lived together for two years. It is impossible for a mixed-citizenship gay couple to live together for two years anywhere in the world without violat ing immigration laws. Previously, Norway only required couples to prove they had known each other for 12 months. Blikk. RUSSIA: The NAMES Project AIDS Memo rial Quilt visited Moscow in October. Hundreds of Muscovites viewed the indoor exhibit of 128 panels, according to AP. Quilt officials and Moscow employees of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission distributed condoms, buttons and safe-sex material. ▼ V V The first Russian gay biker club has formed, reports Out of Pittsburgh. The eight members of Cossacks MC wear studded leather jackets, tight jeans and high-top biker boots. But there’s a problem: the group only has one motorcycle, a vintage World War II Harley Davidson, for whiefy they have no battery. SOUTH AFRICA: ACT UP has arrived. The group is fast becoming as universal as gay bars and cniisy parks. New Year's Resolutions t . fêcuitcv IffiUX inW UM Ct CMCULgl 2 . *i> aunt ifô m fo lieU u f 3. VUelgt ffO/mfintA fo <fM% faowUtt c/uvüttf 610 S.W. Broadway Portland • Oregon 97240 INSURANCE AGENCY. INC. (503) 228-8327 Unleash Your Sexual Energy Joseph Kramer’s Celebrating the Body Erotic SEATTLE. MARCH 7-S PORTLAND: FEB. 29- MAR. 1 Two days of erotic explorations based on Tantric, Taoist and Native American traditions Enhance and prolons orgasm Re-learn sex as sacred, playful, non-addictive, and non-stop Seattle - Tom Hammond (206) 324-1808 Portland - Lou Miles (503) 233-915& BODY ELECTRIC (510) 653-1594 Warm Wishes for a Wonderful New Year Thanks to everyone in the community for your continuing support. 0 Sue Davis Janyce Bender W atch this Space! #
