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EGYPT
GERM ANY
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he European Parlia
arliament
created
ment blasted Egypt’s
June 27 the Magnus
treatment
of gay men
Hirschfeld Foundation to
July 4.
fight anti-gay discrimina
It adopted an urgent
tion and memorialize gays
resolution demanding that
persecuted by the Nazis.
authorities end persecution
It is named after the
of people perceived to he
man who is believed to
gay, guarantee individual
have been Germany’s— if
freedom and explicitly ban
not the world’s— first gay
discrimination based on
activist. He founded the gay
sexual orientation. The
Scientific
Humanitarian
resolution comes at a time
Committee in 1897.
when a trade agreement
The federal government
between the European
will finance the foundation
Union and Egypt is await
with $3.75 million annually
ing ratification.
for the next five years.
“T h e
Association
Opposition members of Par
A greem ent contains a
liament from the Christian
Democrat-Christian Social Magnus Hirschfeld is believed to have human rights clause, but
the European Com m is
Union voted against the been the world’s first gay activist
sion and Council have so
funding.
far been reluctant” to make use of it, said Kurt
Krickler of the International Lesbian and Gay
B E LG IU M
Association’s European branch. “If the EU
ew research reveals that children bom to
proclamation on having a coherent approach
lesbians with help from a sperm donor are
in promoting human rights in the world is to
just as well adjusted as those raised by married
he taken seriously, it is time to put words into
heterosexual couples via copulation.
action and start using the measures set out in
Scientists at the Dutch-Speaking Brussels
the human rights clauses.”
Free University studied 41 kids whose lesbian
In the past year, Egyptian police have
mothers got pregnant with donated sperm. “No
arrested hundreds of men for allegedly engag
differences were found between youngsters
ing in gay sex ( “the habitual practice of
raised in lesbian families and those raised in het
erosexual families with regard to the quality of debauchery”). They have been nabbed during
bar raids, in the streets, in their homes and via
their interaction with parents and their psycho
Internet entrapment.
logical well-being,” the researchers reported.
Jail sentences of up to five years have been
handed down. Recently, 50 of the men were
S W ED EN
granted new trials in a regular court instead of
lesbian whose boss called a kiss between
the woman and her girlfriend “disgusting” the Emergency State Security Court, where they
originally were tried.
settled her discrimination complaint with the
company July 2 for about $3,800.
A U S T R IA
'T h e incident occurred in the lunchroom
ustria’s Constitutional Court struck down
when the girlfriend was visiting. It was the first
June 24 a statute that set a higher age of
gay workplace discrimination case heard by a
consent for male-male sex (19) than for male-
Swedish labor court.
female or female-female sex (14). However,
Article 209 will not he removed from the law
-c-
books until February 2003, leaving activists
Swedish gay man who gave a lesbian cou
worried that conservative legislators might
ple his semen so they could have kids must
come up with a less gay-friendly alternative in
pay child support, an appeals court confirmed
the meantime.
June 20. Igor Lehnberg, 36, must pay $265 a
month to the mother who kept the three kids
U N IT E D K IN G D O M
after the women split up.
ritain’s Foreign Office will begin dissemi
nating information on what gay people can
expect when traveling abroad, the Pink Paper
nti-gay President Robert Mugabe “has
reported. The data will be merged into the
ordered a witch hunt to flush out gays and
agency’s “Know Before You G o” program.
lesbians in his government,” the Zimbabwe Stan
Officials are working with the gay lobby
dard reported July 2.
“Our position is very clear,” Information Sec
group Stonewall, Amnesty International and
retary Nathan Shamuyarira said. “It has been
gay travel companies to compile the reports.
spelled out by the president and the central
They also are seeking input from Pink Paper
readers, inviting them to share their stories of
committee on several occasions.”
anti-gay “holidays from hell.”
“The Foreign Office repre
P O R TU G A L
sents the United Kingdom as a
he president of the Council
of Europe’s Parliamentary
society,” said Simon Shelley,
Assembly, Peter Schieder, has
equal opportunities officer. “If
we are not going to do that
agreed to serve as honorary
inclusively, it is not worth the
patron of the International Les
candle."
bian and Gay Association Euro
pean region’s next annual confer
DERM UDA
ence Oct. 23 to 27 in Lisbon. He
will attend a plenary session deal
queer organization has
j T Y formed
I
in Bermuda. The
ing with sexual minority rights at
Gay M en’s Support Group was
European and national levels.
set up in December, according
“Mr. Schieder’s support for
to the R oyal G azette daily
our conference is a refection of
Peter Schieder
newspaper.
his
undertaking... to
make
It has eight members. None of the men who
LG BT rights one of the priorities of his presi
spoke to the G azette allowed their last names to
dency,” said Ailsa Spindler, ILGA-Europe exec
he published.
utive director. “We are delighted.”
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