ILGA BULLETIN SUMMARY

ILGA gets official status at the U.N.!  On Monday 29 March, 1993, the ILGA
obtained Roster consultative status -- the first lesbian and gay group to
gain official status.  ILGA will be able to submit written statements on
issues concerning lesbian and gay communities around the world.

ILGA Regional Conference in Vienna a complete success.  The main themes of
ILGA's 7th Regional Conference for Eastern and Southeastern Europe, held
in Vienna from the 14th to the 18th of April, 1993, and attended by 218
community-based AIDS workers and lesbian and gay activists, were how best
to prevent the spread of AIDS in Eastern Europe, and to achieve gay and
lesbian emancipation.

Lesbian Visibility at above conference not a problem!  46% of those
attending were women, and they had a hand in everything!

New gay group in Moldova, called Hope, has about 25 members. Contact Ivan
Rakoto, PO Box 8232, 277049, Kishinev, Moldova, CIS.

Uzbekistan Gay men's group.  Contact Paul Grebenshikov, PO Box 4261,
Central Post Office, 700000 Tashkent, CIS.

Israel Conference in Knesset - On February 2, 1993, history was made for
lesbians and gay men in Israel when the Knesset hosted an official
conference on homosexuality.  It was hosted by MK Yael Dayan (daughter of
the late General Moshe Dayan) and was attended by 100 lesbians, gay men
and bisexuals.  SPPR a national group with local groups through the
country, said the conference increased interest in its activities, it has
recently built the first lesbian and gay community center in the Middle
East.

KATLO, an organization in the Philippines, is looking for materials for
their book bank.  Mail it to Katlo, 38 Fordham St., Saint Ignatius
Village, Quezon City, Philippines.

Horizons, a new group in Hong Kong, can be contacted at PO Box 33151,
Sheung Wang Post Office, Hong Kong.

In April, the ILGA and the European Human Rights Foundation jointly
launched the study Homosexuality: A European Community Issue.  It had been
commissioned by the Foundation and the European Commission in 1991.  The
study concludes that discrimination against homosexuals is widespread
throughout the EC.

In April, 1993, Norway became the second country to adopt partnership law.
After 4 years of work by Norway's lesbian and gay group, the law came
into force in August.

Abracao - an AIDS solidarity group in Portugal, founded in June of '92,
has raised a lot of money, produced shows, ads and posters.  Its main
activity is providing support for HIV infected individuals and People with
AIDS in Lisbon.  They can be contacted at Rua da Atalaia 194, 1200 Lisboa,
Portugal.

In April, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the prohibition
under Cyprus law of male homosexual conduct in private between adults
constitutes a violation of the European Convention of Human Rights.
Alecos Modinos, president of the Liberation Movement of Homosexuals of
Cyprus, had brought this case forth in 1989.

On the 98th anniversary of the arrest of Oscar Wilde, April 5th, '93,
three young British gays asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule
that the age limits are discriminatory.  This will be a lengthy and costly
procedure but British gay groups have no other practical alternative.