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ECUADOR
Forty gay men marched through Cuenca on
July 3 demanding legalization of homosexuality.
The march was spurred by police raids of gay
bars in preceding days. Ecuador is one of three
Latin American nations that ban gay sex, along
with Chile and Nicaragua. The penalty is four to
eight years in prison.
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.
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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.
Watson is Western Australia’s first out les
bian member of Parliament.
BRITAIN
Hospitals in London, Birmingham and Cov
entry, England, “are being inundated” with HIV
positive people who were denied treatment by the
public health services in smaller cities, reports
Positive Nation, a British AIDS magazine.
At least 45 people from all parts of the country
have been denied drugs, viral-load tests, CD4
counts and even treatment for Kaposi’s sarcoma,
the magazine said. Britain is supposed to have
universal, government-provided health care.
The facilities that withheld treatment have
cited a shortage of funds.
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A registered-partnership measure that will grant
registered gay and straight couples every right of
matrimony except access to adoption and artificial
insemination has passed both chambers of the
Dutch Parliament and is set to take effect Jan. 1.
Meanwhile, plans to open up regular marriage
to same-sex couples continue to move forward.
Parliament has instructed the government to pre
pare preliminary legislation and a special com
mittee is working to determine what being the
world’s first gay-marriage country would mean
for Holland’s international agreements and rela
tionships.
MEXICO
A lesbian activist won election to Mexico’s
Congress on July 6. Patria Jiménez takes her seat
in the Chamber of Deputies on Sept. 1 as a
representad ve of the left-wing Democratic Revo
lution Party (PRD).
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