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media messages and images, and free move
ment. It criminalizes exploitation, degradation
and physical or psychological abuse against
protected individuals and prohibits promoting
or engaging in hatred, violence, rejection,
ridicule, defamation, slander, persecution and
exclusion toward protected groups.
In the case of violations by public officials,
the newly created National Council to Prevent
Discrimination will demand an explanation from
the accused party, call a conciliation hearing and
suggest solutions. If a solution is not forthcoming,
the council will punish proven violators.
In the case of violations by private entities or
individuals, the council will suggest a concilia
tion hearing and mediate between the parties.
P U E R T O RICO
Ju e rto Ricos Supreme Court ruled in mid-
April that domestic violence statutes do not
apply to same-sex couples, The Orlando Sentinel
reported. It said the laws were designed to protect
the family, which it defined as the “sentimental
and legal union between a man and a woman.”
As a result of the ruling, charges were
dropped against Leandro Ruiz Martinez for heat
ing his boyfriend, Juan J. del Valle. The decision
led to demonstrations, pro and con, outside the
courthouse, and Justice Secretary Anabelle
Rodriguez urged the court to rethink its ruling.
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tees of happiness, equality and free expression.
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he headquarters of the Santiago trans
group TravesChile were trashed by thugs
April 12. A total of 30 young men took sticks,
stones and guns to the facility.
They also stole valuables and heat up trans
activists. The organization’s vice president,
Alejandra, remains hospitalized because of
injuries suffered in the melee.
Police arrived a half-hour after the attack
began and have not made any arrests. “We are
very concerned about this episode because
TravesChile has diKumented and denounced sev
eral instances of police abuse against transgender
people, and the organizations president, Silvia
Parada, has said that police inaction might he in
fact ‘revenge,’ ” the International Gay & Lesbian
Human Rights Commission said.
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olice in Kathmandu reportedly beat and
detained a group of gay men April 22. They
were taken into custody after leaving a 24-hour
restaurant and held for four hours at the Durbar
Marg station.
Police Inspector Umesh Ranjitkar denied
the cops tortured and abused the men, telling
local media that they were drunk and that one
of them “threw away a policeman’s gun and hit
off his ears. They should not have retaliated
even if they felt the police were harassing
them, and they should have reported the inci
dent to me in the morning instead.”
P
POLAND
bout 3,000 people marched May 1 in
Warsaw’s gay Equality Parade.
They demanded a registered partnership law
extending marriage rights to
same-sex
couples. T he
march began at Castle Place
in Old Town and ended at
Parliament.
“Tolerance
is not
enough,” said Joke Swiebel,
chairwoman of the Euro-
.
.
,
pean Parliament’s Gay and 1° e w,e
Lesbian Intergroup. “We don’t need toler
ance— we need justice and equal rights with
others."
No Polish politicians joined the march.
“They should reconsider their attitude,” famed
jazz singer Krysryna Pronko said. “Look how
many of us are here.”
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Transsexual Aya Kamikawa was elected
April 27 to Tokyo’s Municipal Assembly
JAPAN
n open transsexual was elected to the
£ ' \ Municipal Assembly in Tokyo’s Setagaya
ward April 27. Aya Kamikawa, 35, came in
sixth among the 72 candidates for the assem
bly’s 52 seats.
“I am overjoyed,” she told reporters. “I will
proudly attend the assembly as a woman.”
Kamikawa added in an interview with Aus
tralia’s Sydney Morning Herald: “As long as we
keep silent, nothing is going to change. We
need the courage to make a society which
respects diversity.”
SO UTH K O R E A
: outh Korea moved to unban gay Web sites
v. April 3. At the urging of the National
Human Rights Protection Committee, which
had been lobbied by gay activists, the National
Youth Protection Committee altered the Youth
Protection Act so homosexuality no longer is
classified as "obscenity and harmful to youth.”
The change was sent to Congress and to the
Information Communication Ethics Commit-
tee, Publication Ethics Committee, Media Rat
ISRAEL
srael’s Supreme Court has ordered Jerusalem
to retroactively fund the city’s first Gay Pride
event, which was held last year.
Local officials had put up flags along the
parade route and assisted with technical details
hut refused financial support. "Not an agora of
city money is being spent on those sickos,”
Municipal Finance Committee Chairman Eli
Smaheyof bragged at the time.
After the court’s April 27 ruling, the city
and the parade organizer, Jerusalem Open
House, agreed on an $8,500 settlement. Judge
Mishael Cheshin said it was "inconceivable
that the municipality would fund religious fes
tivities hut not Pride events. - j n
Com piled by R ex WocKNER , who has reported
for the gay press since 1985. H e has a bachelor's
degree in journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
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