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Nicaragua recriminalized homosexuality af ter the Sandinistas were ousted from power in 1990. GERMANY Two hundred fifty representatives of the 300 organizations that make up the International Les bian and Gay Association staged the group’s 18th World Conference from June 29 to July 5 in Cologne. Delegates came from 48 nations, in cluding Algeria, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Tanza nia, Turkey and Zim babwe. On July 1, German Parliament Vice Presi dent Antje Vollmer met with a group of conferees from Ar gentina, Belgium, Is rael, Lebanon, the Philippines, Romania, South Africa, Spain and Venezuela. Among other mat ters, she asked whether anti-gay bias in areas formerly colo nized by Europeans is the result of "imperi- Simon Nkolt alism” or pre-existing traditions. Activist Simon Nkoli responded that homophobia is indigenous to his native South Africa and to most other nations. The delegates approved a new Constitution that creates an executive board to manage ILGA between conferences, reduces the majority vote needed to make decisions at conferences from 80 to 50 percent, and inserts the aims of the bisexual and transgender movements into ILGA’s mission. The executive board consists of one man and one woman from each of the world’s major regions. Uritmt%% and quriity W l m m AUSTRALIA In her maiden speech to the Western Australia state Legislative Council, Greens member of Par liament Giz Watson thanked her lover for her support and called for an end to discrimination based on sexual orientation, Capital Q reported in early July. Watson said she will take a keen interest in environmental policies and push for laws to ban discrimination against gay men and lesbians in housing, education and services. She also called for the age-of-consent for gay sex to be equalized with that for straight sex. 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She will be one of 200 legislators in the 500- member body who are selected by political parties rather than direct voting. Each party gets to appoint a certain number of specially listed candidates to represent a several-state region, based on the per centage of the vote the party received in the region. In Jiménez’scase, the PRD needed 16 percent of the vote in the states around Mexico City to put her in office. To everyone’s surprise, the PRD captured about 36 percent of the vote in those states and even snagged the mayor’s seat in Mexico City, stunning the ruling Institutional Revolu tionary Party, which has clung to power for 68 years amid routine allegations of electoral fraud. Jiménez said she will fight for institutionaliza tion of gay-community spaces and improved treat ment for people with HIV, among other things. As far as can be determined, Jiménez will become the first openly gay or lesbian member of any Latin American federal legislative body. A second openly gay candidate, activist Fran cisco Robles Manning, lost his congressional race in Mexico City’s gay Zona Rosa neighborhood. SINGAPORE Singapore’s Ministry of Information and the Arts has renewed the business license of the entertainment magazine IS after its publisher dropped phone-sex ads as well as the entire per sonals section. In initially refusing to renew the license, offi cials had objected in particular to gay ads. Homo sexuality is illegal in Singapore, and the media is prohibited from encouraging “undesirable lifestyles and behavior which would erode moral values and the traditional concept of the family.” SOUTH AFRICA The chair of the South African Human Rights Commission, Barney Pityana, an Anglican priest, says churches should accept the “reality of homo sexuality” and stop trying to wish it away. “It is important to affirm the humanity of others and recognize the full expression of that humanity,” Pityana said in a prepared statement. “There can be no church without the differ ence and diversity that is provided by God as riches in race and gender and ethnicity, in male and female, in diversities of sexual orientation, in black, white and others,” Pityana added in a recent speech. Pityana’s comments came after Pretoria City Council refused to let a local gay group display its “Gay is OK” ad campaign on city buses and the group filed a complaint with the commission. TURKEY Turkish transsexual gay leader Demet Demir, a winner of this year’s International Gay & Les bian Human Rights Commission award for out standing contributions to the movement, was taken into custody by Istanbul police July 12. The arresting officers said Demir had “in sulted the police.” A spokesman for the group Lambda Istanbul said the arrest was probably related to a July 7 television program during which Demir com plained of police mistreatment of transvestites and transsexuals. Compiled by Rex Wockner
