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4 ▼ d * c tm b «r IS, I M S ▼ just out world briefs ÌX 't B R A Z IL More Space, Merchandise and Open Longer Quimbanda-dudu, a new gay group in Salva dor, Bahia, is fighting racism in the gay commu nity and homophobia in the Afro-Brazilian com munity, says spokesman Luiz Mott. “Quimbanda” is an Angolan word meaning “sodomite sorcerer.” “Dudu” means “black” in the Yoruba language. The group’s first project is lobbying the Bra zilian parliament to denounce Zimbabwean Presi dent Robert Mugabe’s recent anti-gay statements. Quimbanda-dudu seeks magazines, newspapers and other material from African American gay and lesbian groups. Write: Quimbanda-dudu, Box 2552, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; phone/fax: 01 l-55-71-322-3782;e-mail: luizmott@ufba.br. We've Moved! 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Prosperity through all the coming holidays! j IN D IA A majority of women in 11 of India’s 13 states have never heard of AIDS, the new Na tional Family Health Survey has found. Only 8 percent of respondents in the state of Assam were familiar with the disease. This and other factors lead Indian health officials to predict 5 million HIV infections by the year 2000, up from the current 1.5 million. Zealand lesbians and gay men] get upset. We are more than upset by those who think that Prime Minister Bolger or Robert Mugabe can be turned into women.” S P A IN On Nov. 8, Spain’s Congress of Deputies and Senate banned discrimination based on sexual orientation and created new hate-crime laws. Ratifying a new Penal Code, the legislators declared the right to express one’s sexual orienta tion a fundamental freedom and prohibited sexual- orientation-based discrimination in housing, em ployment, public services and professional ac tivities. The new code also specifically criminalizes hate and violence against gay and lesbian indi viduals and organizations with penalties ranging from six months to four years in prison. “This Penal Code is one of the most advanced in penalizing discrimination based on sexual orientation...and the first to protect the rights of homosexuals in a Latin Catholic country,” said Jordi Petit, co-secretary general of the national organization Coordinadora Gai-Lesbiana. T A S M A N IA Gay activists in this Australian state filed suit Nov. 14 with the High Court to overturn state laws against gay-male sex, which carry prison sen tences of up to 21 years. “Gay men in Tasmania are still criminals, and the High Court has the power to change that,” appellant Rodney Croome told Reuters. All other Australian states allow gay sex. In April 1994, the U.N. Human Rights Com mittee ruled that the Tasmanian ban placed Aus tralia in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 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With President Robert Mugabe and several members of Parliament continuing to spout some of the most virulently anti-gay rhetoric heard anywhere in the world, Zimbabwean gay men and lesbians are quite simply “afraid,” says Stephen Van Breda, international spokesman for the group Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe. Mugabe has labeled homosexuality “sub-ani mal behavior” that will “never ever” be allowed in NEW ZEALAND Two hundred gay men and lesbians picketed | outside the Commonwealth Heads of Govern- j ment Meeting in Auckland on Nov. 10, to protest the presence of aggressively anti-gay Zimba bwean President Robert Mugabe among the more than 50 world leaders in attendance. The protesters— from the Lesbian Avengers, Pride Center, New Zealand AIDS Foundation, Zimbabwe. “If you see people in your areas pa Auckland Gay and Lesbian Welfare, and Sisters rading themselves as lesbians and gays, arrest of Perpetual Indulgence— also succeeded in pass them and hand them over to the police,” he has ing a letter to Mugabe via the police. urged. “I don’t believe they have any rights at all.” “We appeal to you, as a person who has Meanwhile, in Parliament on Nov. 8, MP known oppression, and who has struggled for his Tirivanhu Mudariki told fellow parliamentarians country’s freedom, not to become in turn the “that this House unreservedly condemns the evil oppressor,” it said. “A true statesman will lead and iniquitous practice of homosexualism and and guide his people, shining like a beacon, and lesbianism...and urges government to take all the setting an example of love, tolerance and accep necessary steps to stamp out this evil practice. [I]f tance. We would urge you to guide your nation we allow or condone such bastardly acts under the along the path towards the ideal of true democ so-called human-rights banners...we shall also racy, where freedom of expression and human have rapists, murderers, criminals and those rights are accorded equally to minorities as to the sodomists who are militating to have sex with 4- majority.” year-olds claiming their human rights,” he said. Mugabe responded to reporters: “This is a Compiled by Rex Wockner subject which is abhorrent..,. Let them [New