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bout 100 people, including members
of the Dutch and European parlia
ments, showed up for the 22nd European
regional conference of the International
Lesbian and Gay Association from
Oct. 4 to 8 in Bucharest, Romania. The
gathering coincided with ongoing
governmental efforts to repeal the
Romanian penal code’s anti-gay
Article 200— a requirement im
posed by the European Union as a
precondition of membership.
It states: “Same-sex relations tak
ing place in public or resulting in a
public scandal shall be punished by
one to five years’ imprisonment. Entic
ing or seducing a person to practice
same-sex relations as well as propagan
da, association or other forms of prose
lytizing with the same aim shall be
punished by one to five years’ impris
onment.”
The conference, which was
addressed by U.S. Ambassador Jim
Rosapepe and representatives of the
embassies of Denmark, Finland and Swe
den, was big news in the Romanian media. It
also attracted a police presence to protect dele
gates from anti-gay protesters, who turned out to
be few in number.
Local gay leader Adrian Coman of the group
ACCEPT told the Washington Blade : “This
opposition is not strong. There is no public sup
port {for it]. In general, Romanians are not very
sympathetic to [Article 200].”
The association’s next European gathering
will be in the Netherlands. The group’s next
world conference will be in August 2001 in
Oakland, Calif.
N EW Z E A LA N D
he Auckland City Council has given
$11,961 to next year’s HERO Parade, a big
annual gay blowout. Deputy Mayor David Hay
opposed the funding because councilors did not
attach guidelines to it on how parade partici
pants would be allowed to project their sexuali
ty, O UT! magazine said.
T
S O U TH K O R EA
pens in the country, ironically, we’re also the
most invisible. Only those who visit gay bars
and clubs...get to read our coverage. Every
other community newspaper, from the Voice
and Asian Times to Irish World and Saga mag
azine, is on sale in the high street. As the
nature and scope of the gay world in the U.K.
changes, we want to take our place on the
news shelves, too.”
Chronos Publishing is launching a new
free listings publication called Rainbow Tickets
to replace the Pink Paper in gay venues. It will
include “pages of community, social, scene
and club events as well as comprehensive list
ings for theater and cinema,” editors said.
T A IW A N
aiwanese gay activist Chi Chia-wei on
Oct. 18 asked the Republic of China’s
Council of Grand Justice to explain why couples
of the same gender cannot marry.
In May, the Taipei District Court rejected his
T
O outh Korea has deported 117 for-
O eigners infected with HIV since
1985, including 10 from the United
States and 38 from Thailand, according
to its National Institute of Health.
Others came from Myanmar, Nigeria,
Nepal, China, the Philippines,
Ethiopia and Ghana.
National Assembly member Kim
Hong-shin is urging a halt to the prac
tice. “The government should establish
special treatment facilities for AIDS-
infected foreigners on a humanitarian
basis instead of deporting them,” he
said.
U N IT E D K IN G D O M
L
ondon’s main gay weekly newspaper,
the Pink Paper, is transforming itself
into a glossy newsmagazine that will be
sold at newsstands instead of distributed
free at gay venues. It will sell for about
$2.60.
“We are changing the Pink Paper from a
tabloid newspaper to a
glossy, full-color current
affairs magazine similar to
Time, Newsweek and the
New Statesman,” editors
said in a recent issue.
“Although the Pink Paper is
one of the most well-
known community newspa-
request for a public notarization of his marriage
to his partner. An appeal to the Taiwan High
Court also was rejected.
Chi wants the council to explain the legal
basis for the rulings, because no law prohibits
gay marriage. The district court said recognizing
a same-sex relationship would “impair social
morals and tarnish traditional ethics.”
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