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PORTLAND AREA Asspçtfflpgfr The committee’s recommendations are ex Gay activists in Sydney have persuaded 170 pected to play a significant role in legislation on hotels, caterers and bars to boycott products from alternative insemination that will be presented by Tasmania, the only remaining Australian state Italy’s right wing government. that bans same-sex relations. JAPAN Despite six years of continuous controversy, OCCUR, Japan’s leading queer rights activist Tasmanian leaders still support the ban, even after group, has declared war on the nation’s psychia losing a case before the United Nations Human Rights committee this year and facing strong try textbooks, which still label homosexuality as pressure thereafter from the federal government. “sexual deviance” or "sexual abnormality.” The activists are also demanding that the Japa The activists, calling themselves Buy-Right, nese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology state its have targeted large Tasmanian producers such as King Island Dairies, Cascade Brewery and Cadbury position on homosexuality. One leading textbook, which is typical, ac Chocolates, said the Melbourne Star Observer. They also published long lists of purveyors of cording to group members, says: “[T]he most Tasmanian seafood, produce and dairy products. serious cases of sexual crimes other than exhibi McDonald’s French fries made from Tasmanian tionism and pedophilia are of a homosexual na ture. Often they follow other more serious crimes. potatoes are also a no-no. Homosexuals are often seen as falling into lives of larceny, fraud and prostitution, but it is not un GREAT BRITAIN In June a Manchester judge granted joint cus usual for the complications of the breakdown of tody of a baby to its lesbian mother and her female homosexual relationships to lead to more serious partner, British newspapers reported. Identified crimes, such as murder. “Generally, if the homosexuals are young, if only as "Debbie” and “Julie,” the mother and her partner are believed to be the first lesbian couple their tendency for homosexuality is weak and in Britain to win joint custody of a child. High self-heterogenic, and if there is a desire for medi Court Judge Douglas Brown said he made the cal treatment, there is a possibility for a cure. In ruling with the child’s welfare as the “first and five cases where homosexuals made efforts to paramount consideration.” “Debbie” was i mpreg- control their homosexual practices and were helped nated by a surrogate father, and her son is now to fit into heterosexual society, three successfully married.” nearly two years old. AUSTRALIA INTERNATIONAL 4526 SE Hawthorne, Portland OR %e y ° u r 1*" c * ance ' world briefs For information and advertising rates call 220-0366. Ad Deadline is August 30, 1994. Make new contacts! Have a fabulous time networking at our monthly meeting, August 8th. For information and reservations call 223-2984. Guest speaker: City Club of Portland, presenting its study on homosexuality. The Vatican doesn’t want lesbians to get preg nant—via artificial insemination or sex with men. A June 22 editorial in the Catholic Church’s official newspaper stated, “No child loves being known as the child of an unmarried mother, even less so of a lesbian mother.... Every child has the right.. .to be conceived by the union of two human beings who love each other and make up a nuclear family.” The editorial was a response to Italian gyne cologist Giuseppe Ambrassa’s June 21 announce ment that he artificially inseminated one partner in a lesbian couple. She is six months pregnant. “Homosexuals have as much love to give to children as heterosexuals,” Ambrassa told Reuters. ITALY MEXICO Twelve Mexican gay and lesbian activists met with and issued demands to officials of the Mexi can mission to the United Nations on June 27. The leaders, who were in town for the Stonewall 25 march, insisted that Mexico’s U.N. officials reveal their position on the International Lesbian and Gay Association’s controversial U.N. consul tative status; press Mexican police to launch a more thorough investigation of the recent murders of up to 25 gay men and transvestites in the state of Chiapas; and urge Mexican education authorities to improve teaching about homosexuality in schools. According to Alejandro Garcia of Tijuana, one of the activists who attended the meeting, the U.N. officials promised to pass on the demands to Mexico’s secretary of state, prime minister, attor ney general, and secretary of public education. “This is a major step for the gays and lesbians of Mexico,” said Jose Navarro of Tijuana’s Grupo ¿Y Que?, who also attended the meeting. The leader of Italy’s largest gay organization has called for a boycott of the country by foreign governments. Franco Grillini, president of the group Arcigay, urges a boycott “until we have assurances that the presence of fascists in govern ment won’t affect democratic rights.” TAIWAN Grillini spoke as part of a protest march through Embracing the notion that sometimes you’ve Bologna. About 1,000 marchers joined the pro just got to ask for what you want, Taiwanese gay cession to lay a wreath at a monument to gay men activist Chi Chia-wei went to the Ministry of the and lesbians killed in Nazi concentration camps. Interior on July 14 and formally requested the The call to boycott is a response to comments right to marry his boyfriend. by neo-Fascist politician Piero Buscaroli, who He later told reporters there are at least 1 million said he believes queers should be sent to concen gay men and lesbians in Taiwan, and they deserve tration camps. Buscaroli is a member of the Na full rights. Taiwan’s population is 21 million. tional Alliance Party, which has five ministers in “I have never heard of this,” said Tsai Tsai- Italy’s new right wing coalition government. fung, the official who handled Chi’s request. “Marriage is a matter of public order and good T ▼ T custom.‘When you say marriage, that means a Italy’s National Committee for Bio-Ethics rec man and a woman. The law is very clear.” ommended in June that alternative insemination Taiwan has no laws regarding homosexuality, be restricted to “adult couples of different sex according to the Reuters news service. The who are married or at least bound by a stable and Spartacus International Gay Guide, however, loving relationship.” The guidelines follow on the claims, ‘Taiwanese soldiers who have been con heels of a controversy over an Italian lesbian who verted to homosexuality face the death penalty.” gave birth to a baby girl after being inseminated by semen from a sperm bank. 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