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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1994)
ju st out T M ptam bw 10, 19<M T 9 world briefs The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set ▼ T ▼ An immigration tribunal in Vancou ver granted refugee status to a 25-year-old gay man who was persecuted in China because of his sexual orien tation, reported XTRA!, a gay newspaper. The man, who is withholding his name to protect his family in Beijing, testified that he was once picked up in a park by Beijing police and sexually assaulted. Chinese police can impose sentences without going through the courts. According to Amnesty International, gay men are often sent to re-educa The group, Lesbians and Gays in Transkei, is tion camps for two years or forced into psychiat based in the capitol city of Umtata and has seven ric hospitals. members, according to The Weekly Mail and Guardian newspaper. INTERNATIONAL “There has been no single moment in my life Lesbians from numerous countries are work where I have felt good about myself,” Vera ing to create lesbian visibility at the fourth World Conference on Women, to be held in Beijing, Vimbela told the newspaper. “I thought we should start changing people, changing attitudes, mak China, in September 1995. Committees were formed in New York dur ing people proud to be who they are.” ing Stonewall 25 week to handle events, publica TAIWAN tions and fund raising. In the first use of its AIDS Control Act, Taiwan will prosecute three men who allegedly IRAQ The government has begun testing visitors knowingly infected several male partners with and citizens returning from abroad for HIV, the HIV, European news services reported. If convicted, the men face up to seven years newspaper Al-Ra 7 reported Aug. 22. A special facility has been set up at the Trebil border in prison. Taiwan’s Disease Prevention Bureau criti crossing with Jordan, the main port of entry. cized the action, saying public lawsuits sacrifice Those who test negative get an “AIDS-free an HIV-positive person’s anonymity and thereby certificate” good for six months. cause other HIV-positive people to fear seeking The report did not mention what kind of HIV test is administered, where people wait while the treatment. test is run, how long the results take, or if visitors Compiled by Rex Wockner and Jann Gilbert who test positive are barred from the country. i i • ' * • • * * R S V P V a ca tio n s O l i v i a C ru ises B ra zil '9 4 1939 SE Hawthorne Blvd 232-5944 OFFERING A SAFE PLACE TO GET CLEAN AND SOBER £ t 8:30-6 Mon-Fri 8:30-5:30 Sat. | • Dog and Cat Grooming {S • Pet Supplies | • Cat Boarding £ f 1411 SW 14th Ave. Located next to & s £ Anim al | M edical Clinic | V»S 3’LL 241-4051 T»d 3’LL Pfet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set The Pet Set AUSTRALIA ITALY The Australian government said Aug. 22 it The Vatican has denounced the draft of a will pass federal laws to supersede Tasmanian document intended for a September United Na state laws banning same-gender sex. Tasmania is tions population conference in Cairo, Egypt. remaining state to prohibit same-sex According to The Washington Blade, the U.S.- relationships. backed document has received a papal thumbs “There is no role down because it supports equal rights for sexual for police looking minorities and abortion on demand. through bedroom win The new right wing government in Italy sup dows,” Attorney Gen ports the Vatican’s stand, according to the Catho eral Michael Lavarch lic News Service. Poli Bortone, Italian secretary said after Prime Min of agriculture, said in a statement that the docu ister Paul Keating’s ment “encourages the formation of homosexual Cabinet approved the couples.” proposed legislation. The federal move MALAYSIA will bring Australia The state television network has banned gay into compliance with men and cross-dressers from its broadcasts, re the United Nations’ ported The Star newspaper in Kuala Lumpur, the International Cov nation’s capitol. enant on Civil and “Any artist who is proven to be a gay will Rights, to which it is a signatory. come under the ban. We do not want to encour In a case brought by Tasmanian gay activists, age any form of homosexuality in our society,” the U.N. Human Rights Committee ruled in April said Information Minister Mohamed Rahmat. that Australia was in breach of the covenant, The Information Ministry controls two of saying discrimination on the basis of sexual ori Malaysia’s three television channels. entation is a form of sex discrimination. MEXICO T T ▼ TijuanaGeneral Hospital routinely turns away The Australian Bureau of Statistics will count people with AIDS who are very ill. The director gay and lesbian couples as families in the August recently told reporters she doesn’t want the hos 1996 census. pital to become an “AIDS hospice.” The move, which several church and “family” “It happens all the time,” said Alejandro organizations opposed, overturns a policy under Garcia, head of AIDS Project Tijuana. “She which computers were programmed to catego wants patients who get better faster. They refuse rize self-reported same-sex couples as “invalid” [people with AIDS] until they’re dead or in a families, according to local reports. coma.” In recent weeks, some people with AIDS CANADA were admitted to the hospital only after Garcia’s Thirty-five HIV/AIDS groups in the province organization fed articles about specific cases to of British Columbia have called for a boycott of newspapers. the 1996 International Conference on HIV/AIDS, SOUTH AFRICA to be held in Vancouver, B.C., to protest cutbacks A lesbian who was lashed as a teen-ager for in funding of HIV/AIDS organizations by the saying she was gay has launched the first lesbian provincial government. According to the magazine Gaezette, many and gay civil rights group in South Africa’s support organizations for people with HIV/AIDS Transkei region, formerly a black homeland. had to lay off staff this year after receiving only 36 percent of the $7.l million they requested. 13J 3’LL T»S 13«I 3'LL Buying or Selling? 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