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ARGENTINA
The coach of Argentina’s national soccer team,
Daniel Passarella, said recently that he would
never invite a gay player to join the team. The
remark came in an interview with the sports maga­
zine El Grafico, reported the Buenos Aires news­
paper Pagina 12. Response from Argentina’s gay
was bom in 1975 in Helsinki (via the Helsinki
Accords). It includes all European countries (ex­
cept Andorra), the Asian former-Soviet repub­
lics, and many other nations of the Northern
Hemisphere, including Canada and the United
States, but not Japan.
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“Don’t Be a Fucking Idiot.” That’s the slogan
of the Edmonton [Alberta] AIDS Network’s new
pro-condom campaign, and some Albertans are
shocked, reported Toronto’s Globe and Mail.
The poster also features a straight couple hav­
ing sex.
Network officials said they used street lan­
guage to get the attention of people in their teens
and 20s who ignore messages that sound as if they
come from authority figures.
community was forceful. Gays for Civil Rights
spokesman Carlos Jauregui called Passarella a
“liar” explaining that “he already has two homo­
sexual players.” Sexologist Maria Luisa Lererdidn’t
mince words either. “Passarella might not be a
skinhead, but he speaks as if he were one,” she told
Pagina 12. “His discriminatory attitude is so gross
that it’s not necessary for him to shave his head....
There are very macho homosexuals that are suc­
cessful at sports.”
AUSTRALIA
State police in Brunswick, Victoria, raided the
Barricade Books store last week and confiscated a
pamphlet on the gay relationships of Russian anar­
chists Necheyev and Bakunin, as well as two T-
shirts. One said “Jesus is Cumming” and the other
said “Fuck the World Police.” No charges had been
filed as of press time.
BRAZIL
The Brazilian newspaper Gazeta do Povo re­
ported in July that 69.7 percent of people in Curitiba,
acity near Sâo Paulo, think homosexuals should be
banished from society. The local gay group,
Dignidade, expressed horror at the findings and
noted that in the past 10 years “42 homosexuals
were brutally assassinated in Curitiba, with only
two cases solved.” Meanwhile, 36 percent of the
viewers of the local Curitiba television program
Q.l. said they approve of same-sex marriage.
BULGARIA
On July 23, Bulgarian National Television Di­
rector Ivan Granitski banned programs depicting
“violence, homosexuality, prostitution, gambling
and drug addiction.”
He said the move will protect “national inter­
ests” and raise the “professional and artistic levels
of programs.”
Prosecutor-General Ivan Tatarchev said he
approved of the decision.
CANADA
The newly formed Parliamentarian Assembly
of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe, meeting in mid-July in Ottawa, for­
mally called on member states “to ensure that all
persons belonging to different segments of their
population be accorded equal respect and consid­
eration in their constitutions, legislation and ad­
ministration, and that there be no subordination,
explicit or implied, on the basis o f... sexual orien­
tation... .’’The pro-sexual-minority language was
pushed through by Danes, over protest from Bul­
garians. Denmark legalized same-sex marriage in
1989. The vote was a victory for the International
Lesbian and Gay Association, which has lobbied
the OSCE for years to take a stand for gay and
lesbian equality. The OSCE (formerly the Con­
ference for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
M ARVIN SALLES
EUROPE
The European Parliament has extended to
domestic partners of gay, lesbian and straight
staff the spousal rights of access to language
courses and to Parliament buildings and restau­
rants. Couples must file a “Declaration of Domes­
tic Partnership” to get the benefits. “It may sound
like a very small victory, but for those who are
familiar with the staff policy of the European
institutions, this is a big step, and it might open the
door for further equal rights,” the gay and lesbian
employees organization said in a press release.
FRANCE
French actress Catherine Deneuve, who just
did a cover interview with The Advocate, is suing
the San Francisco-based glossy lesbian magazine
Deneuve for using her name.
“My name is a commodity,” Deneuve claims in
her suit filed in France.
Deneuve publisher Frances Stevens argues that
the magazine is actually named after her friend
Counters Deneuve. Stevens is exploring the publi­
cation of Deneuve in France, which prompted the
actress’s lawsuit.
NETHERLANDS
The 1998 Gay Games in Amsterdam has its
first big sponsor. “A 2000,” a cable network owned
by Philips Media Networks and U S West Interna­
tional, has invested $390,000.
“Gay Games has never attracted sponsors this
early and this big,” President Marjo Meijer told De
Gay Krant newspaper.
“This sponsorship shows that the 1998 Gay
Games Amsterdam is on the map of world events.
We are confident we will attract other major corpo­
rate and name-brand sponsors.”
The Games, scheduled for Aug. 1-8,1998, will
attract 10,000 athletes, 1,500 cultural participants
and up to 100,000 spectators, organizers estimate.
For more information, visit the Internet World
Wide Website athttp://www.megatel.nl/gaykrant.
POLAND
The Catholic Church has become closely in­
volved in Poland’s drafting of a new constitution,
reports The New York Times.
In the latest developments, the church has de­
manded protections for fetuses and a ban on gay
schoolteachers.
The general secretary of the Bishops Confer­
ence, Tadeusz Pieronek, also has objected to draft
wordingthat would prohibit discrimination against
gay men and lesbians.
“Does it mean we will legalize lesbian and gay
marriages and then we will have to allow them to
take important posts and bring up children?” he
asked.
SWITZERLAND
AIDS is now the top cause of death for Swiss
people aged 25 to 34, accounting for one in five
deaths, reported the Reuter news service. Intrave­
nous drug use plays a central role, officials said.
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