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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.
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opened Aug. 18 in Lugansk.
The Our World Community
Center apparently is the first of its
kind in any former Soviet republic. Andriy Maymulakhin
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