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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1995)
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The Sunday Times did not report the zap, but the rival News o f the World stunned the Avengers with an objective half-page story. CANADA The province of British Columbia has cleared the way for gay men and lesbians to adopt chil dren, reported the Toronto newspaper Xtra! The Ministry of Social Services quietly issued a directive Feb. 6 that removed “restrictions re lated to marital status, the capacity to have a biological child, or the number of children in the fam ily.” HUNGARY The country’ s Constitutional Court legalized common-law same-sex marriage March 8. Common-law and formally married couples have all the same rights. Any couple that lives together permanently and has sex is considered married under common law. —^ - - . B b WT o w N ow f Later. Once you've owned a Hot Spring spa , life without one seems crazy. 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Paradoxically, the court also ruled that formal, civil marriages are for heterosexual couples only. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are the other countries where same-sex couples have the same rights as married people, under “registered part nership" laws. JAPAN Japan has its first English-language gay news paper. “Outrageous Tokyo is a forum to exchange ideas and opinions, learn more about what’s go ing on in Tokyo, and work toward creating a more vibrant and cohesive gay community,” said editor Anthony Fox. The paper is also available on the Internet W orld W ide W eb; its ad d ress is http:// shrine.cyber.ad.jp/~darrell/outr/hom e/outr- home.html NETHERLANDS The city of Amsterdam has put up $610,000 for its part in bringing the 1998 Gay Games to the city. It is the first time the gam es w ill be held outside of North America. Organizers are expecting 12,000 athletes and 100,000 spectators to attend. The budget for the games is reportedly $8.5 million. SOUTH AFRICA Five hundred HIV-positive people from 82 countries gathered in Cape Town from March 6 to 10 for the seventh annual International Confer ence for People Living with HIV and AIDS. It was the confab’ s first appearance in Africa, which has three-fourths of the world’ s 4.5 million AIDS cases, according to the Associated Press. At the opening plenary session, South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki called on indus trialized nations to help the rest of the world fight AIDS. The European Union’ s South African en voy, Erwan Fouere, responded with $14 million for South African AIDS programs. ▼ ▼ ▼ Famed gay British Shakespearean actor Sir Ian McKellen met with South African President Nelson Mandela during a recent visit to South Africa and said Mandela assured him he w ill fight to see that the sexual minority rights clause in South A frica’s new interim constitution makes it into the permanent constitution. South Africa is the only country in the world to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation in its constitution. The final document w ill be finished in two years. McKellen also raised $80,000 for South Afri can gay and lesbian groups with performances of his one-man show A Knight Out. SOUTH AMERICA Gay men and lesbians here have high hopes that the continent’ s first world conference of gay activists w ill help their cause by attracting signifi cant media coverage. For the first time in its 17-year history, the International Lesbian and Gay Association will hold its annual confab in South Am erica— in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from June 18 to 25. ILGA comprises leaders of 400 gay organiza tions from around the world. They w ill strategize, mingle and network. The event, to be held at the Rio Palace Hotel in the famed Copacabana sector, w ill culminate with R io’ s first gay pride march. To attend, write: ILGA Committee, Caixa Postal 4305, 20001-970 Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Bra z il; phone: 0 1 1 -5 5 -2 1 -3 2 2 -4 1 5 0 ; fax : 011-55-21-254-6546. THAILAND Thirty HIV-negative heroin addicts are being injected with an experimental HIV vaccine in Thailand, reported Thai Health M inister Arthit Urairat. The GP-120 vaccine, made by U.S.-based Genentech Inc., is given at three-month intervals for a year. If it works, the addicts w ill become immune to HIV. Brazil also has expressed interest in the trial study. ZIMBABWE The country’ s president, Robert Mugabe, re cently denounced gay men, reported the German wire service Deutsche Press Agentur. “Let us have no more talk of prostitutes’ rights or of homosexual rights, and recognize their ac tivities for what they are— a threat to the morality and health of our growing nation,” M ugabe said while visiting a hospital in the city of Bulawayo. The president’ s remarks cam e amid a cam paign by the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimba bwe to overturn the law that bans sex between men. Compiled by Rex Wockner
