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BRAZIL
An openly gay transvestite has been elected to
the City Council of Colonia do Piauf in the Brazil
ian state of Piauf, reported Denver’s Rocky Moun
tain News.
The state, Brazil’s poorest, is in the country’s
northeastern region.
Katia Nogueira Tapeti, 42, campaigned on foot
and by bicycle “and became the most popular
politician in the state’s history,” the News said.
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.
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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.
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London gay men and lesbians invaded a pres
tigious school of psychotherapy April 29 and halted
a speech by controversial U.S. psychiatrist Charles
Socarides, according to a press release.
About 20 protesters calling themselves “Dykes
and Fags Gone Mad” stormed the podium at Re
gents Park College and sprayed Socarides with
luminous sticky pink foam while blowing whistles
and fog horns. Socarides was led away by guards;
after 10 minutes, police removed the demonstra
tors. 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.
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Germany’s Green Party demanded on May 4
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between 1935 and 1969 under a Nazi-era law that
banned homosexuality.
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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.
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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.