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21.2ÛÛ1 fiu H iiin e tus S a ve M o re a t Continued from Page 22 H A M I D ’S “We hope that the community center will help us to develop our own lifestyle further, to be saved from fear and to feel that we ourselves are valuable citizens in the country,” cofounder Andriy May- mulakhin said during the launch ceremony. The facility offers a library, films, plays and AIDS information. A bar and discotheque will open soon. India, we’ve been working on a rather large net work, just like ILGA, and it’s about as bad.... Get three Indians and you have three political parties.” The conference reflected the association’s disorganization. Attendance was down, some scheduled workshops did not take place, dele gates had trouble finding meeting rooms, some CZECH REPUBLIC sessions degenerated into bickering, and guards bout 68,000 Catholics have signed a petition at the Federal Building, where the bulk of the against the nation’s proposed gay registered sessions took place, claimed to be unaware of partnership law, Agence France-Presse reported. the gathering and confiscated journalists’ cam The signatures will be presented to the eras as a threat to national security. National Assembly as it begins debate on the Delegate Tariq of Pakistan hardly knew what to legislation later this month. Gay leader Jiri Hro- think. He never before had been outside of the mada denounced the petition as hysterical. Islamic nation, where gay life is limited to extreme One recent poll found 41 percent of Czechs ly cautious cruising in parks and hotel lobbies. support legal recognition of gay couples. About Tariq found the association on the Internet, 33 percent oppose it. and organizers invited him to the conference. To have any kind of gay group in Pakistan— NEW ZEALAND political or social— would be “dangerous and new book says gay Member of Parliament Chris Carter has fathered two children for impossible,” he said, “due to tradition and reli gious and legal systems.” a lesbian couple. Although attendance was down significantly He has refused to confirm the report out compared with the associa right but told the Sunday tion’s large European confer Star Times: “For myself it ences during the late ’80s and is not an issue. We could early ’90s, a 2003 gathering is be talking about other scheduled in Manila, the people here...people who go to schools, who live in Philippines. That could draw com m unities and who greater numbers, according to have a whole life. I am some delegates, who blamed not prepared to compro the low turnout this year pri marily on the bad exchange mise their privacy and feed [the author’s] desire rate on the U.S. dollar for for salaciousness. And if Western Europeans. Dele it was true, it is not a story gates from Third World and that I am ashamed of." former communist nations usually attend the conferences MEXICO on scholarships, while those A new book accuses gay New Zealand exico City now has from the developed world Member of Parliament Chris Carter of tend to pay their own way. M ; a gay television pro pulling a David Crosby gram on the Internet. La Fractura “shows homosexuality like it is, elegates to the recent European Confer casting off the solemnity, the blame and the ence of Scouts and Guides passed a resolu shame that generally is associated with the topic, especially in the media,” the producers said in a tion opposing discrimination based on sexual orientation— a response to the Boy Scouts of press release. The program airs live from 12:30 to 1 a.m., Mexico City time, Mondays and Wednes America’s gay ban. The meeting was held in days on the “Me Vale” channel at www.zoom.tv. Prague, Czech Republic. The 400 delegates approved the resolution NORTHERN IRELAND overwhelmingly. Representatives from Cyprus, new report from the Northern Ireland Hu Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania and Turkey man Rights Commission says gay men, les opposed it. bians and bisexuals face widespread discrimination in areas such as employment, health care, family SOUTH AFRICA life and criminal law. he Lesbian and Gay Equality Project is suing It recommends the creation of a legal advice Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and the center, a domestic partnership registration law state pension funds on behalf of people who have and a task force within the National Assembly. been denied a deceased partner’s pension. The case could affect up to 100,000 gay and lesbian members The document, Enhancing the Rights of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual People in Northern Ireland, was of the Government Employees Pension Fund and prixluced by University of Ulster. the Associated Institutions Pension Fund. "Their lack of change smacks of typical old- CANADA guard disrespect for the law, for the constitution and r j n | he Human Rights Tribunal in the province for the people," project spokesman Evert Knoesen of British Columbia awarded lesbian cou said. When apartheid ended, South Africa became the first country to ban discrimination based on sex ples Aug. 29 the right to register as parents on their child’s birth certificate when the father is ual orientation via its constitution. an anonymous sperm donor. THAILAND Previously, a nonbiological mother had to adopt her partner’s child before the Vital Statis IDS is now the nation’s No. 1 cause of death, tics Agency would recognize her as a accounting for 16 percent of parent. The tribunal said the agency deaths, the health ministry said had discriminated against lesbian Aug. 31. Other leading causes are couples based on sex, sexual orienta heart disease, cancer and accidents. tion and family status. 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