Subject: 2 brief news from Argentina
From: ales@wamani.apc.org (Alejandra Sarda)
Date: 	Fri, 17 May 96 11:31:57 ARG

ESCRITA EN EL CUERPO - Lesbian Archives and Library
Electronic News Service.


* DEMONSTRATION AT THE CHILEAN EMBASSY

	On Wednesday, May 16, 10 activists from Buenos Aires chained themselves at the Chilean 
embassy to protest the arbitrary arrests of 50 gays committed by the Chilean police. The following 
organizations were involved in the demonstration: Act Up,  Asociacion Travestis Argentinas, Biblioteca 
Gay Lesbica, Comunidad Homosexual Argentina, Convocatoria lesbiana,  Escrita en el Cuerpo, Gays por 
los Derechos Civiles, Iglesia de la Comunidad Metropolitana and Lesbianas a la Vista. Activists 
denounced the facts through the media, and they also had the chance to meet with a high rank officer at the 
embassy, to whom a petition was submitted, asking for the derogation of Art.365 -that criminalize 
sodomy under the Chilean Penal Code- and the ending of Human Rights violations against homosexuals.


* ANTI-DISCRIMINATORY LAW IN BUENOS AIRES

	On June 30 Buenos Aires citizens will go to the polls to vote for major and also for an assembly 
that will draft the city's first autonomous statutes. On Thursday, May 17, women candidates for the 4 
major parties held a press conference. Answering a question posed by Carlos Jauregui - Gays por los 
Derechos Civiles (Gays for Civil Rights), the 4 candidates agreed that an anti-discriminatory law 
including sexual orientation among other categories was in the agenda of their respective parties. 
Activists will not forget such promise and will keep close scrutiny of the assembly's work, to start in July.


Alejandra Sarda


Piedras 1170 1ero. B
(1070) Buenos Aires
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E.mail: ales@wamani.apc.org


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