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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.
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Two lesbians married legally on June 28 in
London, reported the Reuter news service.
One of the women had had a sex-change opera
tion but is still legally considered male, so the
marriage will be allowed.
Tina-Louise Dixon will tie the knot with Tracie-
Anne Scott, who used to be a merchant seaman, has
been married twice before, and has fathered three
children.
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All new British judges will now receive gay-
sensitivity training, according to Capital Gay.
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.
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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