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0 ▼ «prit 1 9 . 1 9 9 0 ▼ ju s t o u t N C T IV 0 K k HI V Thci ui pv S e r v i c e s ^RSVP world briefs 1 9 9 3 / 1 9 9 7 In d iv id u a ls, C o u p le s, G ro u p s • Male couples with HIV •Lesbians & HIV •Young Adults, Mixed Gender Ryan White Funding Available Accepting Medicaid Oregon Health Flan Medicare. Private Insurance & Private Pay For Information, call: 238-5251 Europride Copenhagen FINLAND Eastern Med /Greece Cruise Club RSVP Puerto Vallarta One hundred eighty-one Finnish public fig ures signed an open letter March 5 supporting registered partnership for gay men and lesbians. The document will be sent to parliament and Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen. Finland is expected to follow Denmark, Nor way and Sweden in legalizing registered partner ships that grant all the rights of marriage except access to church weddings, adoption, artificial insemination and in-vitro fertilization. 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Patrons who were taken to a police station were allegedly shoved, insulted and asked for bribes. In a Feb. 2 raid, detainees were forced to stand outside the police station in the rain for four hours, they said. Several hundred gay men were detained in one big sweep on Feb. 10. The Lima Homosexual Movement says two men share particular blame for the crackdown: Crime Prevention Prosecutor Elmer Alva Leon and Lima Deputy Mayor Agrahan Pacheco Cajaleon. THE PHILIPPINES Gay “jack-off parties,” previously endorsed by the city Health Authority, have been banned. And gay bars are being raided, particularly those favored by so-called rent-boys. Gay activists say politicians from the conser vative CSU party are to blame. The party picked up several more seats in state elections March 10 at the expense of the Social Democratic and Green parties. At the same time, however, the gay party Pink List won a Munich city council seat after receiv ing 1.8 percent of the vote. The council has 80 members. Gays should steer clear of the Philippine armed forces, Chief of Staff Gen. Arturo Enrile told reporters March 11. “There is no way we will accept gays in the armed forces,” Enrile said. “I don’t have to ex plain. I have my own way of looking at things.” It’s a different story at the national police force. Gen. Recaredo Sarmiento said on March 9 that gays were welcome as long as they did their jobs right and did not behave scandalously. Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim went further. Ho mosexual policemen should be allowed to put on LIBYA Please c a ll for m ore inform ation. 1 800 871-9440 - F o undatio n . I n c On-line queers are not the only people who feel under attack in the German state of Bavaria, where police action against Internet pornography has disrupted non-sexually oriented areas of gay cyberspace. According to activist reports on the Internet, the whole Munich lesbian and gay community has seen increased hostility from police and gov ernment officials in the past six months. The lesbian community center was closed after the city withdrew funding. A gay sauna was raided and closed, and other saunas are being patrolled by naked undercover policemen. parties, would allow authentic, unrestricted mar riage, according to several European reports. The British organization War on Want says Libya “severely enforce[s]” Islamic Sharia law against homosexual sex, imprisoning violators for three to five years. War on Want recently launched a “War on Prejudice” campaign after discovering “that no other [British] aid organization funds lesbian and gay projects...in the developing world.” Openly gay Member of Parliament Chris Smith has endorsed the campaign, calling it “an impor tant development in understanding our responsi bilities as lesbians and gay men.” - 24 HOURS THE NETHERLANDS FT. LAUDERDALE • CLEVELAND PHOENIX . 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PORTUGAL Portugal’s leading lesbian and gay group, ILGA, is working with politicians to add “sexual orientation” to the Constitution’ s list of character- istics that cannot be a basis for discrimination. , , , , • , ^ * Compiled l>y Rex. Wockner. t » • I f f <• ) - f I