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4 ▼ July 2 1 . 1 0 9 5 ▼ j u s t o u t G&M Automotive PDX Automotive 6006 E Burnside, Portland 231-8486 5934 NE Halsey, Portland 282-3315 “Mechanics with a Conscience’ Free ride to MAX CERTIFIED M EC H A N IC S Complete automotive service of foreign and domestic cars and tight trucks Gerard Lillie To d d Connelly NIA Technique® The Rosas world briefs AFRICA Famed African novelist Marcel Sony Labou Tansi died of AIDS complications June 14 at age 48, reported the Associated Press. The news service said Tansi was renowned for his satire and criticism of colonialist Africa and the dictators who followed independence. His best- known books are The Shameful State, The People Before, and Life and a Half. Tansi was elected to the Congo National As sembly in 1993 but refused to attend any sessions in defiance of the government, AP said. AUSTRALIA The South Sydney Council has announced plans to protect Oxford Street’s gay identity in the same way it guards Chinatown’s Chinese identity, re ported the Melbourne Star Observer. A spokesman said the council will support gay public-art projects and require new development to be consistent with the street’s atmosphere. BRITAIN The neo-fascist British National Party jammed London’s first gay radio station during its first week of broadcast earlier this summer, reported London’s Capital Gay. BNP pirates flooded Freedom FM’s frequency with transmissions of their own, the newspaper said. Authorities halted the interference after a les bian ham-radio operator used tracking equipment to locate the illegal transmitter. Freedom FM had a special license to transmit experimentally for one month. The station’s appli cation to return to the air for a second month is under consideration by the Radio Authority. ▼ ▼ T Non-Impact Aerobics Mon. Wed. Fri. 5:30 - 6:30 Taught by Lisa Mirante. 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The Judicial Studies Board said the new mod ule in its three-day training course will encourage sensitive questioning of defendants and witnesses and discourage unwitting outings. The change came following input from the bar association’s Lesbian and Gay Group. CANADA Toronto’s new Triangle Program is the country’s first public high school for gay and lesbian stu dents, reported Wayves, a Nova Scotia gay news paper. Special instruction will be offered in gay and lesbian history, literature and experience. The Toronto Board of Education said it created the program because too many gay and lesbian teens quit high school in order to escape homophobia and heterosexism. GERMANY A monument to gay victims of the Nazis was erected June 24 in downtown Cologne by the 0TV trade union, following lobbying from its Gay and Lesbian Working Party, according to a press re lease. The memorial is near Hohenzollem Bridge, a popular gay cruising spot before and after World War II. Cologne Chief Mayor Norbert Burger and gay Member of Parliament Volker Beck spoke at the unveiling. Other cities with such monuments include Amsterdam, The Hague. Bologna. Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. There are also monuments at the Mauthausen and Neuengamme concentration camps and in Berlin’s Nollendorfplatz subway station. GREECE Omikron (the first letter of the Greek word for “homosexual”) is a new gay magazine in Greece. It is published by EOK, the Hellenic Homosexual Community. Each issue contains an English summary sec tion. To subscribe to the publication, send e- m ail to eok@acrogate.ath.forthnet.gr. MACEDONIA The bar association in Macedonia (formerly part of Yugoslavia) voted June 7 to ban homo sexuals and alcoholics from becoming lawyers, reported the newspaper Dnevnik. It said the public doesn’t trust them. Gay men and lesbians who already are licensed to practice law will be allowed to continue. NETHERLANDS The Netherlands will legalize same-sex mar riage this summer, reports Henk Krol, editor of De Gay Krant, the country’s leading gay newspaper. ‘T he minister of justice and the secretary of state for internal affairs have announced that the marriage rules will be changed,” Krol said in an e- mail message. “Their new rules, that will include gays and lesbians without any restrictions, will be sent to Parliament be fore the summer holi- Cj days. “Only [the] CDA [party] and sm all Christian groups are £ against it,” Krol said. ^ “We have 150 mem- [ bers of Parliament— b 42 are against, 14 don’t know yet, 94 will pass the new bill!” M ore than 100 Dutch cities and towns already allow gay men and lesbians to record their relationships in a symbolic “marriage register.” Krol says that when same-sex marriage is legal ized, the 800 couples that have signed these regis ters will automatically be legally married. The registers were created following lobbying from the Friends of De Gay Krant Foundation, Krol said. Same-sex marriage is legal in Denmark, Nor way and Sweden, but it is technically “registered partnership” and does not include the rights to adoption, church weddings, artificial insemina tion or in-vitro fertilization. The Netherlands will be the first country to allow lesbians and gay men to marry under the exact same laws as heterosexu als. ▼ ▼ ▼ De Gay Krant is now available on the Internet, sponsored by Apple, The Netherlands and Dynamac Eindhoven. Point World Wide Web browsing software at http://www.bart.nl/~gaykrant.html. The service includes news in English. TURKEY Gay men, transvestites and prostitutes are or ganizing in Turkey’s red-light districts for self- protection, reported Brazil’s IPS wire service. The campaign was launched in the western city of Izmir by brothel owner Aysel Firmali. VIETNAM Vietnam has recorded 2,520 cases of HIV infection— 80 percent of them among drug ad dicts and more than half in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the National AIDS Protection Commit tee reported on June 7. Compiled by Rex Wockner