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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.
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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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