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For m ore in fo rm atio n , call: ( 503 ) 494-6300 OREGON HEALTH SCIENCES Where Healing , Teaching and Di sanier) Come Together world briefs BRITAIN The 1998 gay EuroGames will be staged in Manchester, England. The city beat out Cologne, Germany, for the honor of hosting the event. The games will run from Aug. 21 to Aug. 26, coinciding with the local Mardi Gras celebrations. CANADA The Calgary, Alberta, School Board voted Feb. 25 to make life easier for sexual minority students, reported the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Schools will offer counseling for students struggling with sexuality issues— with or without parental consent. They also will let queer support groups adver tise public school meetings, and will announce a zero-tolerance policy on anti-gay name calling, harassment and violence, the CBC said. EUROPE A gay man who was sacked from the British Navy saw his case referred to the European Court of Justice on March 13. Terry Perkins was dis missed on grounds of his sexuality in November 1995. The European Court likely will decide whether discrimination based on sexual orientation breaches the European Union’s Equal Treatment Directive and, if so, whether the law applies to the military, Britain’s High Court said in referring the case. A hearing is expected this year with a decision within 18 months. If Perkins wins, it would become illegal for any employer in the 15-nation European Union to discriminate based on sexual orientation, and sexual minorities who have been kicked out of the military could demand compensation. Last year the European Court held that the Equal Treatment Directive was breached when a transsexual was fired after undergoing a sex- change operation. ▼ ▼ ▼ Government health plans pay for protease in hibitors in Denmark, France, Germany, the Neth erlands, Norway and Sweden but not in Belgium, I Italy, Spain or the yy United Kingdom, re ' -Si ■ ' : ported the March is sue of the Journal o f ■ yy- the International As sociation ofPhysicians in AIDS Care. “We estimate that kO about 11,830 deaths • could be prevented in these four countries during 1997 if only they would take full advantage of these powerful treat ments,” said Philippo von Schloesser of the Euro pean AIDS Treatment Group. ISRAEL The Israeli Defense Forces is appealing a ruling that gave a military spousal pension to a gay man. A Tel Aviv District Court Appeals Committee ruled on Jan. 8 that the military engaged in illegal gender-based discrimination when it withheld benefits from Adir Steiner after his male lover. Col. Doron Meisel, died of cancer in 1991. MEXICO Enlace Lèsbico, a network of Mexican lesbian organizations, staffed a booth in the Zócalo, Mexico City’s central square, on International Women’s Day, March 8. ‘The Enlace booth was one of the most vis ited, attracting lesbians and heterosexuals,” said a spokeswoman. “It was a big boost for visibil ity.... It shows the force we can have as lesbians when we combine our energy.” untv « shy T Anequai opportunity ilTinnwhH i lim institution T T SuperGay, along with SuperEcologist and SuperBarrio. zapped the Mexico City offices of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) on March 3. Wearing a rainbow mask, a black sequined cape, tight shorts and extravagant glasses, SuperGay slapped a “Closed” sticker on PAN’s front gate. . -X* *\4v.V “I am here to fight for the rights of gay citizens,” he declared. The other two superheros rep re sented environmental and urban-neighbor hood concerns. PAN, the most conservative of Mexico’s three main parties, has a so-called "family values” bent. In some cities where the party has come into power, it has closed gay clubs and harassed homosexuals. But in other PAN cities, such as Tijuana and Mexicali in Baja California, there have been no problems. The less conservative but more corrupt Revo lutionary Institutional Party (PR1) still controls most Mexican cities, but PAN has gained on PRI in every recent election. ì THE NETHERLANDS Dutch Railways has granted gay and lesbian employees’ families foreign-travel benefits. Employees’ spouses and children receive a certain amount of free foreign travel each year and a 50 percent discount on other foreign tickets. The move follows a court ruling and another from the Dutch Equal Treatment Commission in favor of the benefits. At first, the rail line an nounced plans to contest the rulings but then said it had changed its mind. For the time being, queer family tickets for foreign travel will be paid for out of Dutch Rail ways’ own pocket since international agreements among train companies do not recognize such families. ▼ T T Operators are waiting at the new Gay Games 1998 hot line at Amsterdam’s Cafe April. The games are expected to draw 15.000 par ticipants and 200,000 attendees. The hot line is staffed from 6 pm to 11 pm Dutch time on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fri days. The number is 011-31-20-427-1998. NEW ZEALAND Pharmac, the New Zealand government agency that subsidizes drugs, will pay for saquinavir starting April l but is holding back on ritonavir and indinavir. Saquinavir is said to be the least helpful of the new protease inhibitors which, when combined with older anti-HIV drugs, halt disease progres sion in most patients. Pharmac head David Moore blamed a lack of money for the agency’s poky movement on the life-saving medicines. ZIMBABWE Former Zimbabwean nationalist leader Michael Mawema on March 5 called on the gov ernment to punish homosexuality with public flogging and castration. "Zimbabwean laws against sexual perverts, especially rapists and gays, are too soft,” Mawema said. “I am proposing that those convicted of these sexual crimes, such as homosexuality, rape, incest and bestiality, be whipped at least 100 times in a public square, and that, if they are men, they be castrated.” Mawema was speaking at a public meeting he called via a newspaper advertisement. About 100 people attended. Compiled by Rex Wockner