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World Roundup
This article is from Outlines newspaper, which purchased and merged with Windy City Times in Sept. 2000.
by Rex Wockner
1999-08-25

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SPANISH MAYOR MARRIES GAY COUPLE

UNIVERSITY EVICTS STUDENT GROUP

INDIAN LESBIANS DEMAND DECRIMINALIZATION

BRITISH MILITARY WELCOMES TRANNIES

SEXUAL MINORITIES ORGANIZE IN FIJI

SCOTTISH CHRISTIANS PROTEST PLAY

NO REFUGE FOR COLOMBIAN

SINGAPORE CLUB CLOSES

SPANISH MAYOR MARRIES GAY COUPLE

The mayor of Calvia in Spain's Balaeric Islands performed a wedding for two men at the town hall Aug. 15.

The marriage of Julian Diaz, 35, and Rodolfo Olocco, 45, was recorded in the town's civil registry but will not be recognized nationally.

Mayor Magarita Najera said she was happy to be a "pioneer" in the battle for gay equality.

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UNIVERSITY EVICTS STUDENT GROUP

Members of the Tongzhi Culture Society at Hong Kong's Chinese University were forced to dismantle an unauthorized booth they erected at City University's student­registration day Aug. 11.

The stand displayed gay books and promoted gay culture. "Tongzhi" means "comrade" but now also translates as "gay."

City University officials said security guards confronted the group because there was no room for displays from organizations affiliated with other schools.

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INDIAN LESBIANS DEMAND DECRIMINALIZATION

India's Campaign for Lesbian Rights demanded Aug. 10 that the government repeal a Victorian­era British Empire law that bans gay sex.

"This law has now been scrapped in England whereas in India it is still in force," the group said in a statement. "No lesbian may have been picked up and flung into jail because of this 138­year­old law drafted by Lord Macauly in the 1830s. But it is used to blackmail Indian lesbians, force them to consent to marriage and be invisible."

A 1994 Delhi High Court lawsuit seeking to overturn the law has yet to result in a ruling, according to an Agence France­Presse report.

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BRITISH MILITARY WELCOMES TRANNIES

People who undergo sex­ change operations will be allowed to remain in the British military, the Daily Telegraph reported Aug. 2, citing confidential new Defense Ministry guidelines.

The British military bans homosexuals.

The policy change followed publicity in the case of Sgt. Major Joe/Joanne Rushton, 38, who has begun "gender realignment."

A former boxer who served in Ulster and Bosnia, Rushton joined the army at age 19, has been married four times and has a son.

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SEXUAL MINORITIES ORGANIZE IN FIJI

Fiji's first gay group, the Sexual Minorities Project, has formed under the auspices of the organization Women's Action for Change. And coordinator Trisa Cheer has sent out a call for information on "the study of whether being gay is genetic or not."

"At the moment there has been quite a debate in our country about it," she said. "But without actual facts we, the sexual minorities, cannot really argue with them. A whole page in one of our newspapers, The Fiji Times, featured a psychiatrist who is the medical superintendent of our mental hospital [who] says that we can be saved, and I quote: 'I have helped boys and girls who think they have homosexual tendencies and rescued them from such ideas. ... It's become a fad now. That the in thing to be now is gay.' Comments like these in our dailies do not help in our work because we are already having to deal with culture and religion which is hard enough as it is."

The assist the organization, write, Trisa Cheer, Coordinator, Sexual Minorities Project, Women's Action for Change, P.O. Box 12398, Suva, Fiji. Phone 011­ 679­ 314363. Fax 011­ 679­ 305033.

Or e­mail: wac@is.com .fj.

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SCOTTISH CHRISTIANS PROTEST PLAY

Seventy Christians picketed the sold­out opening day of Terrence McNally's play Corpus Christi Aug. 10 at Scotland's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In the play, Jesus is converted to homosexuality by Judas Iscariot.

Bedlam Theatre employees also found several women praying in the toilets. They had their hands on the walls and said they were cleansing the building.

One of the protesters, the Rev. Jack Glass of Zion Baptist Church, told reporters: "This is a spoof about a poof. This blasphemous play is making the Lord out to be a homosexual. It's wrong and vile."

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NO REFUGE FOR COLOMBIAN

Refugee Corredor Serrano, 35, cannot stay in Canada to escape homophobic abuse at home in Colombia, the Federal Court of Canada ruled Aug. 11.

In upholding a decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board, the court said Serrano is not in serious danger in Colombia because he's not overtly gay, doesn't frequent gay venues, and doesn't live a gay lifestyle.

Nonetheless, Serrano said Colombian police had beaten him and vandalized his business due to his sexual orientation.

They also outed him to his family, forcing him to leave his village of 700 people and relocate to a larger city, he said.

More than 200 foreign homosexuals have received asylum in Canada since 1992.

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SINGAPORE CLUB CLOSES

Singapore's only gay gym and sauna closed down in late July but no one knows why. The Spartacus facility also contained a bar and a discotheque. Some of the club's members are especially upset because they had paid their dues up to a year in advance.

Members' attempts to contact the owners have been unsuccessful.

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