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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1992)
world briefs 8 ▼ o c to b «r 1982 T just out ARGENTINA An estimated 300 gay men and lesbians marched through the streets of Buenos Aires on the evening of July 3 in the culmination of the first-ever gay prids celebration in Argentina. Representing seven gay, lesbian and transsexual organizations, they paraded from the Govern ment Palace to the Congress carrying pink ban ners and placards demanding equal rights. AUSTRALIA More than 10,000 people walked through Melbourne’s chilly streets for the Ninth AIDS Candlelight Vigil in late July. Lord Mayor of Melbourne Richard Meldrum lit the first candle and Victoria state Premier Joan Kimer was the featured speaker. ▼ ▼ ▼ The Anglican archbishop of Perth in western Australia has ordained a professed homosexual to the priesthood in a private ceremony. It is be lieved to be the first time an openly practicing homosexual has been ordained in the Australian Anglican Church. Archbishop Peter Camley, who ordained Australia’s first women priests in a controversial service in March, performed the private ceremony in the chapel of his official residence 10 days ago. News of the ordination, which broke Thursday, immediately provoked controversy. CANADA The Ontario Court of Appeal last month up held a ruling that the Canadian Human Rights Act is unconstitutional because it doesn’t protect gays. The act covers federal employees, military per sonnel and people who work in federally regu lated sectors such as air and rail transport and banking. The Canadian military bans gays. Specifically, the court said the act violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which states that “every individual...has a right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination.” CHILE The gay movement has come back to life with the birth of Movimiento de Liberación Homo sexual. According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association, “the group has developed a strong structure and working basis and started setting up links with gay life in Santiago,” the capital. CHINA An underground organization, the Sizhou Gay Group, has established contact with the Interna tional Lesbian and Gay Association, marking the first Western link with a Chinese gay group. The groups said that although homosexuality is not illegal, gay men are taken to police stations, beaten, deprived of food and water, then sent to insane asylums. possible 15 points in the test, Thailand’s a three and Brazil’s a five. Condoms less than one-half millimeter thick were automatically rated “poor.” Consumerboard favors the Dutch condom Duo PUERTO RICO About 300 people marched for gay pride, many representing gay bars or one of a dozen community groups. Despite what Caribbean Heat termed “a tor rential downpour of rain,” the group gathered afterward in Quinones Park for speeches, music and other entertainment RUSSIA Eleven gay groups from around the former U.S.S.R. met in Moscow recently and formed an information center that will publicize the repres sion of gays in the Commonwealth of Indepen dent States and the Baltic nations. SCOTLAND Two thousand queers from around the country turned out for Lark in the Park, Edinburgh’s pride celebration, at Princes Street Gardens. The day was long on live music and short on political speeches, according to Gay Scotland, whose reporter took special note of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’s exorcism of the demons of homophobia, sexism and racism. SOUTH AFRICA Soweto’s Township AIDS Project holds its first regional AIDS Conference for Lesbians and Gay Men OcL 8-9 in Johannesburg. Leading gay activist Tseko Simon Nkoli in vites foreign groups to fax greetings to (011) 27- 11-982-5621. The Gay and Lesbian Organization of Witwatersrand, founded by Nkoli, is also busy organizing South Africa’s third gay pride march on OcL 10. SWEDEN Commissioned to draw a cover for the re gional phone book for Ystad, in south Sweden, artist Stig Sjblund sketched himself and his buddy Jan Sbrman talking on the phone wearing full leather. And he threw in a German safe-sex poster in the background. VATICAN CITY Keven Calegari, president of the U.S. gay Catholic group Dignity, was vacationing in Eu rope when word broke of the Vatican’s new demand that American bishops declare war on gay liberation. So Calegari got acopy of the directive, marked it “Return to Sender,” went to Rome and nailed it ▼ ▼ ▼ to the Vatican’s front door-taking inspiration ▼ ▼ ▼ Consumerboard, a consumer-advocacy group, from Martin Luther, who launched the Protestant City Councillor Paolo Hutter married nine gay tested condoms from Brazil, Indonesia and Thai Reformation in 1517 by nailing “95 Theses” to couples and one lesbian couple June 26 in front of land-popular Dutch tourist destinations-and rec the Catholic Cathedral in Wittenbergy, Germany. La Scala, Milan’s famous opera house. ommended travelers not use them. About 1,000 people attended the mass wedding. Indonesian condoms scored a one out of a Compiled by Rex Wockner. Copyright Outlines News Service. Secret gay organizations meet in priv ate. homes, SGG reported, changing their meeting places regularly for safety. SGG said AIDS does not seem to be a big concern. “Though most gay men know about safe sex, and condoms are very cheap and easy to get here in almost every drugstore, only very few put it into practice,” the group noted. ENGLAND Twelve OutRage members invaded the Wimbledon residence of Vatican Apostolic Nun cio Archbishop Luigi Barbarito in August, pro testing Rome’s new demand that U.S. bishops oppose equal rights for gays. They carried signs reading: “Stop Crucifying Queers,” “Papal Bull Shit" and “Vatican = Preju dice & Hate.” A week later, 15 OutRage members disrupted mass at Westminster Cathedral. Four protestors prostrated themselves in the sign of the cross while activist Martin Harrington delivered a ser mon. GERMANY More than 250 lesbian and gay couples de scended on city halls in 50 cities Aug. 19 and demanded marriage licenses. They were turned down. The action set the stage for a Supreme Court challenge on the issue. Activists previously pres sured Parliament without success. Among the applicants were TV star Hella Von Sinnen and her lover, Cornelia Scheel, daughter of former West German President Walter Scheel. Gay marriage is legal only in Denmark. In Holland, officials in about 40 cities perform gay weddings and keep a gay-marriage registry in hopes the weddings will be considered legal once the federal government OKs gay marriage, which it is expected to do soon. ITALY Rome Gay News Editor Massino Consoli has challenged leading composer Franco Battiato to a duel over his new opera, Gilgamesh. The 4,000-year-old poem on which the opera is based contains what may be the oldest known depiction of same-sex love, but Battiato left it out of the opera, saying, “I don’t care about it.” Lesbians and gays have loudly protested the omission, gamering a fluny of supportive news reports. In other news, state television has bucked the Vatican and started running condom advertise ments. Outrage 9/92 "O VOTE NO ON 9 Vatican spokesman Cardinal Silvio Oddi de nounced the event as “open disrespect to God and to human dignity,” and city officials are investi gating whether Hutter broke any laws. ButMayor Piero Borghim told LaRepubblica: “If Hutter’s initiative...draws attention to some thing we can no longer pretend doesn’t exist, that’s great. I just hope it doesn’t lead to unnec essary exhibitionism.” LATVIA The parliament of Latvia, which legalized sex between men earlier this year, is now considering domestic-partnership legislation, Denmark’s gay paper PAN-Bladet reported last month. A representative of the Latvian parliament told gay activists that legislators are considering following the example of neighboring Scandanavian countries by introducing the legis lation. MEXICO Gay and AIDS activist Martin Balesca Dominguez, 22, is the latest victim in a wave of anti-gay violence sweeping the southern state of Chiapas. He was beaten, stabbed and left for dead last month near the town of Arriaga. At last report, he was in critical condition. At least 12 Chiapian gays and nine prostitutes have been assassinated in the past year, most with high-caliber rifles, in or near the capital, Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Police have not solved any of the killings and have described them to the press as mere crimes of passion or vengeance. Gay lead ers report police harassment as a result of public ity about the murders. Leaders of Mexico City’s Círculo Cultural Gay have given the National Human Rights Com mission documentation on the assassinations and have demanded an investigation of the “system atic and often silent genocide” of Mexican gays. Increased violence against gays and transves tites has also been reported in Mexico City and the states of Oaxaca and Jalisco. NETHERLANDS Lesbian Irene de Kok, 26, of the Netherlands won the bronze medal in judo on July 28. She was competing in the 72 kilogram (159 pounds) weight class. John Blankenstein, an openly gay Dutch man, took part in the Olympic soccer tournament, serv - ing as a referee. According to the British Gay Times, Blankenstein said the Dutch soccer fed eration always invites his male partner to dinners and other functions. REPORT HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE Acupuncture «Chiropractic «Massage Counseling «Naturopathic Medicine -1 703 Oregon's funniest women and men in a benefit for NO ON HATE A Metropolitan grassroots campaign working to defeat ballot measure 9 with hope and hum or. ( 503 ) 230-0812 Brooke Winter, L.Ac. AN EVENING OF BRAIN SURGERY With the OCA (Oregon Comedians Association) Jan Corwin, DC Kip M. Hard, DC \ Valerie M. 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