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COSTA RICA
The highest court in Costa Rica has found
that the Universidad Internacional de las Ameri
cas violated the country’s constitution when it
expelled men with long hair because they do
not uphold traditional Costa Rican values.
Charges that the school dismissed students and
faculty for being gay or lesbian, however, could
not be proven in court because no gay or lesbian
person was willing to speak publicly about his
or her experience. The school has defended its
policy of expelling gays and lesbians—and
men who wear earrings or lycra shorts, or have
long hair—because it has an obligation of up
holding traditional values. Letters of support
for the students and faculty are encouraged.
The address for the school is: Lie. Miguel
Angel Gutierrez Alvarez, Rector de la UIA,
Apdo. Postal 1447-1002, Paseo de los
Estudiantes, San Jose, Costa Rica. The address
of the Ministry of Education, which oversees
the school, is: Lie. Rafael Garzona, Secretario,
CONESUP, Ministerio de Education Publica,
1000 San Jose, Costa Rica.
EUROPE
Various neo-fascist groups are forming in
Europe that have connections with similar
groups in the United States. Der Einblick, a
publication from the “anti-antifa” (or “anti
anti-fascist”) movement, contained the names
and addresses of 250 anti-fascists, including
trade union leaders and journalists, and their
organizations and meeting places. In Germany,
the neo-Nazi groups Freihcitliche Deutsche
Arbei-tcrpartci and Gcsin-nungsgcmeinschaft
der Neue Front have established ties with the
group Combat 18 in Great Britain and another
neo-fascist group in Denmark. The GDNF
also has ties with a neo-Nazi group in Nebraska
which considers itself the successor of the Ger
man Nazi Party.Combat 18 was formed with
the help of Harold Covington, who lives in
North Carolina and whose post office box has
served as the U.S. contact for Combat 18.
Covington was a leader of the Confederate
Knights of America, which praised the 1979
assassination of five Communist Workers Party
members by neo-Nazis in Greensboro, N.C. In
Der Einblick, the top leadership of the German
neo-Nazi network calls on followers to “neu
tralize all anti-German, anti-nationalist” forces
and urges them to “stop squandering the enor
mous violent potential” of the neo-Nazi move
ment.
the guilty," said Jorge Cortinas, program direc
tor of the International Gay and Lesbian Hu
man Rights Commission. Chiapas is the site of
an uprising earlier this year by the Zapatista
Army for National Liberation, brought on, in
part, because of lack of trust in the Mexican
government regarding human rights.
T T T
A permit for the Miss Gay Tijuana beauty
contest, planned for Dec. 18, has been denied
by the Tijuana city council. The council justi
fied the denial by saying that the local sexual
minority community does not “contribute to
the development of our community,” and that
the council has a responsibility to preserve the
“harmony” of the city. Activists say the denial
is a violation of the basic right to assemble.
ROMANIA
The Romanian Senate changed the country’s
ban on gay and lesbian relationships to allow
only those that do not cause a “public scandal.”
The Romanian Penal Code calls for a prison
sentence of one to five years for anyone in a
same-gender sexual relationship. Activists say
that the senate’s change is only a cosmetic one
INTERNATIONAL
and that it will not end the government’s perse
The International Lesbian and Gay Associa cution of sexual minorities. The Romanian
tion will hold its 16th annual world conference government maintains that the law is not en
in June 1994, in New York City, in conjunction forced. Human rights activists, however, say
with ihcGayGames and Stonewall 25. In 1993, that at least 57 people are currently in prison for
the group became the first lesbian and gay engaging in consensual sex with a partner of the
organization to have consultative status with same gender. Cosmin Hutanu, a 21-year-old
the United Nations. Conference topics include man, is serving a one year and two months’
AIDS, lesbian visibility and regional activism. sentence for engaging on one occasion in pri
For more information, write to Center ILGA vate and consensual sex with a man. Along with
Committee, c/o Lesbian and Gay Community adding the “public scandal" clause, the senate
Services Center, 208 W 13th St., New York, also made it a crime to publicly or privately
NY 10011, or call (212) 620-7310.
promote homosexuality, punishable with one
to five years in prison.
MEXICO
In Chiapas, an official of the state’s police
RUSSIA
force was arrested earlier this year on charges
The destruction by fire of a Jewish syna
of trafficking arms, kidnapping and murder. gogue in Moscow is fueling fears that anti-
Among the murder victims arc some 25 gay Semitism is on the rise in Russia. “There is
men and transvestites, who were killed be reason to be concerned because of the political
tween June 1991 and February 1993. The Gay situation (in Russia],” said Rabbi Bcrel Lazar,
Cultural Circle, a Mexico City-based group, an Italian-born Lubavitcher who has been work
has suspected the man, Ignacio Flores Monticl, ing since the fall of communism to rebuild
of directing the murders in Chiapas. The group Russian Judaism. Ultra-nationalists have gained
is skeptical, however, of the effectiveness of scats in recent Russian parliamentary elections.
the arrest because of past human rights viola Two other Jewish institutions, a school and a
tions and cover-ups. “Local authorities have let warehouse, have also been partially destroyed
crucial evidence go unexamined, have pro by fire.
moted judges who participated in the cover-up,
and have convicted innocent people to protect
Compiled by Pamela Lyons