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Residents described her as a pragmatist who assists in childbirth, extracts teeth, takes care of children at the local day care center and gives public talks on the dangers of AIDS. MEXICO Saturday, June 10, 9 am-5 pm The AVP presents WomenStrength Musi pre-register LCP Offke: 223-0071 Sunday, June 11,3-5 pm Sandy/Gresham Lesbian Potluck Cat Jennifer for Info: 761-3347 Saturday, June 17, 8 pm-1 am The 6th Annual Lesbian Pride Dance & Silent Auction Portland Conference Ctr, 300 NE Multnomah She lives openly with her gay “husband,” 28- year-old farmer Benervaldo Francisco de Assis. Gay activists in Rio de Janeiro hailed Tapeti’s election as a big victory for gay rights, the News said. $10 advaate, $12 door; free ddldmel A membership organization...join today! (503) 223-0071/TDD Fax 242 1967 P.O. 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There were no arrests. Socarides, a professor at Albert Einstein Col lege of Medicine in New York, is a leading propo nent of therapies designed to turn homosexuals straight. He testified as a medical expert when the U.S. Congress held hearings on lesbians and gay men in the military. Dykes and Fags Gone Mad spokesman Fernando Guasch told the audience of psycho therapists that Socarides’ lecture could not be seen as a mere academic exchange of ideas. “For 35 years this man has fought against equal rights for lesbians and gay men,” Guasch said. “He has damaged untold numbers of people. This man ’ s work is part of a political war against the gay community. For this man to be invited to speak by prestigious British psychotherapeutic institutions is an insult to lesbian and gay people.” Socarides was originally scheduled to give the annual lecture to the National Health Service’s Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy but he was replaced after protests from APP members. Socarides’ son Richard, a member of President Clinton’s White House staff, is openly gay, the press release stated. BEAVERTON: 10367 SW Canyon R d .Just East of 217, 643-5002 GERMANY SALEM: 3966 Silverton Rd. NE, Just West of Lancaster, 363-4000 Germany’s Green Party demanded on May 4 that the government apologize to gay men arrested between 1935 and 1969 under a Nazi-era law that banned homosexuality. BEND: 61249 S. HWY. 97, Just South of Factory Stores, 388-0905 ' Wt m m m The party also insisted that compensation be paid to gay men who were placed in concentration camps. Gay Green Member of Parliament Volker Beck said, “The 50th anniversary of the liberation from fascism should be an occasion to have homosexual victims of National Socialism finally get justice.” During the 34-year period, about 50,000 gay men were prosecuted, according to Reuters news service. More than 5,000 homosexual men were sent to Nazi concentration camps, where an esti mated 3,000 of them died wearing the pink tri angle, Reuters said. One of Mexico’s leading gay and AIDS activ ists, Jorge Romero Mendoza, died in late April of AIDS complications in Guadalajara, his home city. Romero attended many world conferences of the International Lesbian and Gay Association as well as the International Conferences on AIDS. He co-organized the 1991ILGA conference in Mexico. Romero’s ashes will be spread around the Homomonument in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, his favorite place. He is survived by his lover of 10 years, Arturo Leal Lopez, and his best friend, Pedro Preciado Negrete. NETHERLANDS The 1998 Gay Games organizers in Amsterdam have gone on-line and are seeking help in cyberspace to construct their World Wide Web page. E-mail elich@gaygames.nl. ▼ ▼ ▼ Bucking national law, an Amsterdam court last week let a single woman adopt a 7-year-old Brazil ian girl who has lived with her for six years, reports correspondent Bert Schuur. The move violated a 1986 Dutch Supreme Court ruling that only married heterosexual couples could adopt. “Single parents alsocan provide a stable home,” the Amsterdam court decided. “Developments in society demand change in this area.” The state is not expected to appeal. POLAND The decision by the committee drafting Poland’s new constitution to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation has provoked heated opposi tion. reports The Warsaw Voice. “Does this mean that intercourse with animals or a corpse will also be protected?” asked President Lech Walesa’s representative on the parliamen tary committee, Wladyslaw Kulesza. Catholic Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek called the plan “an example leading toward extremes which cannot be accepted by any normal society.” Gay activists seemingly have embraced the old notion that there’s no such thing as bad press. “This is a real psychological breakthrough,” said Piotr Brodacki, president of Lambda Warsaw. “We want people to see that we do exist.” The constitutional committee voted 16 to 6 with 7 abstentions to protect lesbians and gay men from discrimination. The final document must be approved by both houses of parliament and a vote of the citizenry. SPAIN Spain’s parliament in April banned discrimina tion based on sexual orientation, according to a sketchy report posted on the Internet by the Barcelona gay group Coordinador Gai-Lesbiana. “We don’t have the final version of the law, but the important thing is that for the first time in Spanish history we will have a law which will punish discrimination against lesbians and gays,” the e-mail posting said. Reported by Rex Wockner. Translators for this column are Guido Gaietta, Mario Inchiosa and John Styber.