Date: 06 May 95 04:57:25 EDT From: Alan Beck <100600.1343@compuserve.com> Subject: 'Pink Paper' news 6 May UK News Headlines from 'The Pink Paper', weekly national for lgbs in UK From: Alan Beck, Associate Editor copyright (c) 'The Pink Paper' ----------------------------------------------------- 'Demonstrators halt gay "cure" doctor' 'Mental health groups join gay protestors to oppose American psychiatrist's visit' Professor Charles Socarides, who describes homosexuality as a 'perversion' was mobbed by a group of lesbian and gay protestors as he tried to give a keynote speech at the London School of Psychotherapy in Regents Park College on Saturday 29 April. Twenty members of Dykes and Fags Gone Mad (DFGM) carrying placards reading 'We're not sick and we don't need healing' burst into the room and covered him with luminous pink foam and brought the lecture to a standstill. Over 40 police officers marched the demonstrators out of the building and no arrests were made. Many organisations protested, including the mental health charity MIND, and PACE, the lesbian and gay counselling organisation. 'Lib Dems back gay marriage' The Scottish Liberal Democrats have voted in favour of legalising gay marriage and adoption. The vote, taken at the party's national conference in Perth, Scotland, commits the party to equal access for lesbians and gay men to 'cohabitation, parenthood and adoption'. 'Anti-gay tenants to be evicted' Hounslow council is believed to be the first London borough to introduce an anti-harassment policy which enables it to evict any tenants who abuse lesbians, gay men and tenants with HIV and AIDS. The policy was introduced after gay tenants were harassed. 'Tributes planned to gay war-dead' Direct-action group OutRage has approached the Bishop of Ripon, the Right Reverend Derek Rawcliffe, who recently came out, to lay a triangular pink wreath at the Cenotaph in London's Whitehall. A similar event is also planned for Brighton during the town's Pride Festival on 26 May. There will be a candle-lit vigil at dusk, in which activists will lay a pink triangular wreath at the war memorial, despite fears of opposition from groups like the British Legion. 5 May marks the anniversary of the destruction of the Hirschfeld Centre, the famous archive of sexuality in Berlin which was destroyed by the Nazis. It is hoped that the anniversary could become an official day to commemorate lesbian and gay victims of the Holocaust. It is believed that under the Nazis some 6,000 European gays, forced to wear pink triangles in the concentration camps, were exterminated during the war. 'Carey "no" to gay bishops' The Archbishop of Canterbury has dashed hopes that the Church of England might be preparing to soften its line over lesbian and gay clergy. Speaking at the weekend, Dr George Carey said the Church had no plans to treat marriage and same sex relationships as equal. 'It suits some groups to "talk up" the story that the bishops are preparing to accept parity between marriage and long-term same-sex relationships. This is not so', Dr Carey said. Such speculation was unwarranted, he added. The archbishop was speaking to the Anglican Evangical Alliance in Hertfordshire, whose members are opposed to the Church adopting a more liberal approach to gay clergy and worshippers. 'Seaside funfair tries to ban AIDS posters' The owners of Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, the Lancashire seaside town's huge fairground, have demanded that hundreds of educational AIDS leaflets be destroyed after a local HIV and AIDS charity used a drawing of the fair's rollercoaster on them. Blackpool Body Positive (BP) was ordered last month to destroy 1,000 leaflets and 100 posters featuring a drawing of Blackpool Tower and the Pleasure Beach's new rollercoaster, after the park's bosses branded them offensive. But BP has refused to do so. The leaflets were distributed around Blackpool's gay clubs and pubs and in the town hall after Body Positive received council backing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- This is a weekly report that may reprinted or posted without prior permission provided that attribution is made to 'The Pink Paper'. Alan Beck, Canterbury, Kent UK Alan Beck, 100600.1343@compuserve.com ****************************************************************************** To send a message to the entire list "queerplanet", email queerplanet@abacus.oxy.edu This list is run by the program MAJORDOMO@abacus.oxy.edu. *******************************************************************************