Date: Thu, 3 Feb 1994 11:24:09 -500 (EST) From: Basil Girgrah Subject: Info from ILGA This has been passed on to GayNet from the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ontario. Basil Girgrah (aka Queen of DeNile) basil@kueper.civil.queensu.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- ILGA BULLETIN REPORT This was *the* Lesbian bulletin. Lesbian Network started in Indonesia - Chandra Kirana, P.O. Box 6525 JKSDW Jakarta 12065, Indonesia. ILGA lesbians getting ready for the Fourth UN Conference on Women. From 4 - 15 September, 1995, The United Nations will convene the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality Development, in Beijing, China. Concurrent with the conference will be a non-governmental event known as the NGO Forum. The documents to be dealt with at the conference, however, don't even mention lesbians, even though they're supposed to deal with practically every issue and category of women under the sun. The fact th at the ILGA now has NGO status at the UN will help us to redress this slight oversight. The European Community has funded an ILGA pilot project, the Lesbian Visibility Project. Two women researchers travelled to each country, interviewing lesbians in order to gather information on the conditions of lesbians' lives in the individual EC member states. UPCOMING EVENTS --------------- February - National Black Gay and Lesbian Conference and Institutes, N.Y.City May - European Israeli Regional Conference, World Congress of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations, Tel-Aviv, Israel. June - Stonewall 25 Celebrations (18 - 25th Gay Games IV, New York City; 26th International March on the UN, New York City; 25 - July 3rd 16th Annual ILGA World Conference, International Bisexual Conference, International Leather Conference, International Lesbian and Gay Labour Conference; 15th Annual Conference of the Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition International