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jus* owt ▼ m a rc h 1 9 0 2 ▼ 5 w orld new s AUSTRIA: The Ministry of the Interior an nounced in January that “persecution on the grounds of sexual orientation can, according to the Geneva Convention, constitute a reason to flee from a country and thu&can be a reason to be granted political asylum in Austria.” “This is good news,” said Kurt Krickler. “Now it is official that persecuted gays and lesbians can seek asylum in Austria.” Netherlands catch up with Denmark, where gay marriage has been legal since October 1989. The spread of HIV w orldw ide surpasses predictions AIDS CASES •U.S., Canada: 1 million •Latin America, Caribbean: more than 1 mil- lion •Western Europe: 500,000 •North Africa, Middle East: 50,000 ▼ ▼ ▼ The government said Thursday that it would propose creating a new law and amending an old one to make it easier to prosecute crimes such as advocating Nazi ideas or denying the Holocaust. Jewish leaders, human rights monitors and other officials in Austria welcomed the proposals, which are expected to be presented to the parlia ment next week. The proposed law would also make it a crime • “to deny, grossly minimize, praise or justify through printed works, over the airwaves or in any other medium the National Socialist genocide or any other National Socialist crime.” The Politics of Ambition by John Sawatsky. COSTA RICA: Alda Facio, daughter of the Costa Rican ambassador to the U.S. is an open lesbian, says The Advocate. The father and daughter do not communicate with each other, the magazine said. DENMARK: The European Community has granted the International Lesbian and Gay Association’s Lesbian Visibility Project $53,000 to make lesbians visible to each other and to EC policy makers. ▼ ▼ ▼ A freedom-of-speech case brought by the leading gay organization. Homosexual Initiative Vienna (HOSI Wien), has been accepted by the European Human Rights Commission. In 1988, Vienna police confiscated and de ENGLAND: A survey by the Gay London stroyed a HOSI banner during a ceremony un Policing Group found that 40 percent of gay men veiling a monument against fascism. The banner and 25 percent of lesbians have been physically read, “Thousands of homosexual victims of con assaulted because of their sexuality. Most of the attacks happened near gay bars. centration camps are still waiting for recognition/ compensation.” Half of the victims had been attacked more than HOSI appealed to the European Commission, once. which accepted the case in December 1991. The Austrian government must respond this month. FRANCE: The hierarchy of France’s Roman Catholic Church supported the pro-Nazi govern CANADA: Someone tossed a bomb in the ment of Vichy France, according to a Jesuit stairway to Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium theologian’s report discovered after nearly ahalf- century in a private archive. in Vancouver last month. There were no injuries, but the explosion Historians are concluding that, despite indi knocked books off shelves and damaged the stairs vidual acts of bravery and heroism, much of the and walls at the gay-oriented shop. church hierarchy collaborated wholeheartedly. It was the third bombing at the store since This comes just weeks after a church-appointed panel of historians issued a 400-page report con 1983. ▼ ▼ T cluding that for decades French cardinals, monks Prime Minister Brian Mulroney ’ s brother Gary and nuns helped one of France’s most notorious is gay, according to the new biography Mulroney: Nazi collaborators, Paul Touvier, elude justice. M U c x ÿ . 0 Bans/ PC > Suite 102 Touvier, 76, faces charges of crimes against humanity for commanding a pro-Nazi militia unit based in Lyon during World War II. The force hunted down Resistance fighters and Jews. GERMANY: Berlin’s new gay antiviolence hotline recorded 200 bashings during its first year. M any of the attacks were carried out by “groups of very young people” and skinheads, according to the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Antigay violence is on the rise across Ger many and has become particularly serious in the East. In Leipzig, the city’s first gay club closed following repeated threats and bashings. Meanwhile, about 150 neo-Nazis gathered in Kassel to bury the ashes of neo-Nazi leader Michael Kuhnen, who died of AIDS. An equal number of demonstrators turned out, leading to what Gai Pied termed “a pitched battle between the Nazis, the unaffiliated and the police, which left many wounded.” TURKEY: Amnesty International has ac cepted the case of Ramazam ‘Demet’ Demir, a gay activist and transvestite who was taken into custody in August during a raid on alleged brothels in theCihangir area of Istanbul’s Beyoglu district. He was reportedly beaten with a steel pipe at the Beyoglu police station by the police chief, who has repeatedly vowed to cleanse the neigh borhood of transvestites. According to Amnesty, police told Demir they arrested him because of his homosexuality. Demir pointed out that homosexuality is not illegal. Police asked what he meant. Demir said that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modem Turkey, decriminalized homosexuality. Demir was then charged under law 5816 for insulting the ▼ ▼ ▼ memory of Ataturk. The new draft constitution for the former East Said Amnesty: “Demir is a prisoner of con German state of Brandenburg bans discrimina science. Amnesty International is appealing for tion against homosexuals-a first in Germany. his immediate and unconditional release.” Lesbia Translations by Charlie Fineman (Danish, NETHERLANDS: Thirty Dutch cities now Norwegian, Swedish), Bliss Frings (German), allow gays and lesbians to register their relation- Dave Kelly (Dutch), Jussi (Finnish), Bob Miller ships-and even conduct marriage ceremonies-at (Italian), L.Rich(Czech),C harles Smith ( French), City Hall, even though there is no provision in John Styber (Polish, Russian), and Rex Wockner federal law for lesbian and gay marriage. (Spanish). On Feb. 6,250 cities presented Justice Minis ter Hirsch Ballin with a petition demanding the Specializing in: •Relationship issues •Addiction and codependency recovery •Spiritual issues and meditation training •Tai Chi Classes Portland. OR ...J u s t blocks from Clscksms Tom Center INSURANCE First computer? Replacing a system ? 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