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4 ▼ m ay 20, 1004 ▼ just out just out has recently changed its publication schedule to the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month. Calendar entry deadline is the Thursday before the 1st and 3rd Friday for the next issue. Classified and display ad deadlines are the Monday after the 1st and 3rd Friday for the I simply do it better! Whether it's listening to your wants and needs, developing a presentation of properties, or negotiating your transaction, be assured that your satisfaction is my ultimate objective Call me at Bridgetown Realty — because there is a difference Donald Falk Million Dollar P roducat B ridgetow n Realty ( 503 ) 287-9370 ( 503 ) 655-8015 world news AUSTRALIA In April, the Australian government gave non governmental organizations in Indonesia more than $13 million to develop community anti- AIDS efforts. The projects will begin in Indonesia’s eastern provinces and expand elsewhere, if they produce good results. Indonesia has about 200 reported AIDS cases and an estimated 20,000 HIV-positive citizens, but officials say there could be as many as 500,000 infections by 1995, if prevention education ef forts aren’t begun soon. “Gays and lesbians in China have not yet set up any similar society to ours, although under ground forums are often held where they discuss anxieties and worries,” Lo said. ITALY Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace stated in New York Newsday that he is gay. “I don’t think a gay person has to be afraid,” Versace told the paper. “You don’t have to go with a flag and say ‘I’m this’ or ‘I’m that,’ but I cannot be a liar.” “I’m more interested to know the real person ality of a gay man or a straight man, not to know a gay man who wants to be straight or a ‘straight’ man who’s gay,” Versace continued. “We are what we are. And, I don’t think we’re in bad company [with] all the creative persons who are gay.” According to the Newsday article, other gay fashion designers of note include Isaac Mazrahi, Todd Oldham, John Bartlett, Marc Jacobs and Jean-Paul Gaultier. Portland's Most Important Mall 307 N.E. Holladay Portland. OR 97232 (503) 232-6619 Open 7 days (10-5) SEE US FOR ALL YOUR COLLISION REPAIR NEEDS 2454 E. B U R N S ID E • P O R T L A N D . O R 97214 Family Owned & Operated Since 1952 G O LD CLASS PWC3FES0OMALS AIDS activists unfurled a banner and threw fake money into the Ontario legislative chamber April 26, to protest the government’s failure to launch a promised drug-funding program for people with catastrophic illnesses. One of the protesters, AIDS Action Now co chair James Earlinger, told reporters, “Every day there is further delay. People are not accessing the drugs they need to keep themselves healthy.” Canadians with AIDS who can afford the drugs spend up to $2,000 a month, Earlinger said. Ontario Premier Bob Rae later told reporters the province is working to create a program for people who need expensive drugs. MEXICO AIDS is out of control in Tijuana, says Emilio Velasquez, founder of Organización SIDA, the queer newspaper Frontera Gay, and the civil rights group FIGHT (Frente Internacional para las Garantías Humanas en Baja California). Velasquez claims that government inaction at all levels, combined with lack of AIDS-related funding and the relatively high rate of bisexuality among males, is allowing the disease to spread. He said that as gay and lesbian leaders struggle to cope with the epidemic, crucial civil rights / n m ON BROADWAY 2300 NE BROADWAY • PORTLAND 284-2300 THOMAS M. BARRETO, O.D. • Eye examinations • Contact lenses • Contemporary eyewear "See w hat you've been missing" EUROPE European gay men and lesbians are gearing up for a summer of pride events, including the third- annual EuroPride, held this year in Amsterdam. Paris pride week is June 10 to 19. Events will include a leather get-together, exhibits at the Ho mosexuality Salon, a national activists conference, three tea dances, a queer soccer meeting, a fashion show against AIDS, a film festival, and, on June 18, the parade and a bash at the Mutuality Palace. In Holland, EuroPride begins June 15, under the motto "The Dutch Way of Gay.” Following parties, exhibitions, lectures and other activities, the EuroPride parade steps off June 25. Some 80,000 marchers are expected. Irish pride day is June 25, with events sched uled in Dublin, Galway, Belfast and Derry. Swedish pride week is July 31 to Aug. 7. In England, Brighton’s Lesbian, Gay and Bi sexual Pride March is May 28. Pride week in Finland is Aug. 8 to 14. In Belgium, Pink Saturday was May 7. Events included church services, a parade, an outdoor concert and parties. HONG KONG Hong Kong’s leading gay and lesbian group, the Ten Percent Club, is ready to move from social to political endeavors, co-chair Jack Lo told the South China Morning Post in April. “Up to 10 percent of the total population in Hong Kong is gay— that means about 600,000. We will use these votes as the bargaining power for our rights,” Lo said. Lo said the group’s “ultimate goal is legaliza tion of homosexuality.” He noted, “Gay couples can’t apply for the Home Ownership Scheme because domestic partnership is not yet recog nized. I would like to see our rights protected through legislation.” The club also hopes to make Hong Kong a support base for gay men and lesbians in China. China will assume the administration of Hong Kong from Britain in 1997. V *1 V, • < » •. vv U j V Twenty-six of 60 openly gay or lesbian candi dates who ran for local office in Holland’s recent nationwide elections won, reported the newspa per De Gay Krant. The paper attributed the results in part to its “Do Your Duty, Elect a Fruity” (Ken uw Plicht, Kies een Nicht) campaign to get out the vote. In Amsterdam, AnnemarieGrewel was elected to the City Council and former Member of Parlia ment Peter Lankhorst won a seat on the Bos en Lommer District Council. Only one other woman was among the win ners. SWEDEN Sweden moved one step closer to being the third country to allow gay marriage April 29, when the proposed legislation passed a key par liamentary committee. As in Denmark and Norway, married gay men and lesbians would have all the rights of hetero sexual couples—except the rights to adopt chil dren, receive artificial insemination, or force the state church to perform the ceremony. Compiled by Rex Wockner