use in fighting discrimination against lesbian and gay relationships.

The registry broadly defines "family" as a person's primary source of affection and support, and may include a couple, or any number of adults and children. The registry is a centralized record of lesbian and gay families in the U.S., created by the Human Rights Campaign Fund to recognize lesbian and gay families in a formal manner; to build a database that can be used to educate the public and law makers about lesbian and gay families; and to serve as a tool in lobbying for federal, state and local legislation which will protect lesbian and gay families. Local organizations may also use the registry as a source of information when working on local initiatives.

Local organizations that sign up families for the registry will receive half of a contributed registration fee. The registration fee is on a sliding fee scale of $5, $10, or $15. The other half of this fee will cover the mailing, printing and administrative costs of the registry. Families who register receive a certificate as a symbol of their commitment. A strictly confidential record of your family will become part of the National Family Registry. Families will have the option to allow HRCF to use their names when talking to law makers. Members of the registry also will have voluntary participation in a family photo album to share with law makers and the public.

For more information, contact Naria Jordan, HRCF, 1012 14th Street, N.W., Suite 607, Washington, D.C. 20005, or call 202-628-4160.

Lavender Law II. The National Lesbian and Gay Law Association will sponsor Lavender Law II, the Second National Conference on Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues, October 5-8, 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference will feature panelists from around the country who will provide insight into the struggle of lesbians and gay men for fundamental civil liberties and equal rights in personal affairs, employment, government services, public accommodations, health care, along with many other issues of concern to the community.

In 1988 over 600 attorneys, judges, law students, and legal workers attended the Lavender Law Conference in San Francisco.

A separate, intensive legal conference on AIDS law and sodomy law reform is scheduled for Monday, October 8. Virtually every substantive area of AIDS law will be covered.

Conference panelists will include Tom Stoddard and Paula Ettelbrick from Lamda Legal Defense & Education Fund; Urvashi Vaid, Sue Hyde, and others from the National Gay and Les-

We Are Everywhere

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Mexico-The International Lesbian & Gay Association (ILGA) met last month to ratify their decision to hold the 13th ILGA Annual Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico, next June 16-22.

This will be the first ILGA Conference to have been held outside of Europe, Canada or the USA. Guadalajara will also host the first Latin American Regional Conference on June 14 and 15.

Sponsoring groups in Guadalajara are the Gay Pride Group for Liberation (GOHL), a ten-year-old activist and service organization, and the four-year-old lesbian organization Grupo Patlatonalli.

Both GOHL and Patlatonalli will be needing all the help they can get, especially financial contributions for travel funds to bring delegates from all of Latin America.

The anti-gay climate created by the mayor and city council of Guadalajara has improved, according to reports from the ILGA. The president of the city council of Stockholm, this year's host city, has promised to personally contact his counterpart in Guadalajara to secure the city's support for the June 1991 conference.

For more information on the 1991 conference, write to the ILGA Information Secretariat; c/o Antenne Rose; 81, rue du Marcheau-Charbon; B-1000; Belgium. Phone 32-2-512-3234.

Stockholm-The 12th Annual International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) Conference, held in Stockholm July 1-7, featured 287 participants from 116 groups and 36 nations.

Activists from South Africa, Latin America, Asia, the Soviet Union, Australia, Europe and elsewhere gathered to plan global strategies to challenge homophobia.

Participants conducted a demonstration in downtown Stockholm protesting executions of gay men and lesbians in Iran. The ILGA continues to request that protest letters be sent to SecretaryGeneral Javier Perez de Cuellar, United Nations, New York, NY 10017, asking him to direct a United Nations inquiry and to apply pressure to stop the barbaric executions in Iran.

The ILGA Eastern Europe Information Pool, designed to help support the

struggling lesbian and gay movement in times past, was disbanded since lesbian and gay groups in eastern Europe are flourishing now. New information pools, however, were approved for Africa and youth.

A newly organized ILGA caucus of delegates from the Americas focused on issues affecting gay people in Canada, the U.S., and Central and South America, including harassment of gay men and lesbians in Argentina and Mexico; discriminatory U.S. immigration policy; and official consultive status with the Organization of American States. American groups continue to join the ILGA in record numbers, and the U.S. has offered to host the 1994 Conference in New York City.

For more information, Contact Robert Bray at the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, 1517 U. St. NW, Washington, DC, 20009.

Hong Kong The Hong Kong Legislative Council voted 31 to 13 in July to lift penal sanctions on homosexual relations between consenting adults. The previous law in the British colony carried up to a life sentence for any gay sexual contact.

Poland-Lech Walesa, candidate for president of Poland and founder of Solidarity, has come out strongly as a homophobe, declaring his intention to "eliminate homosexuals, drug addicts and other moral undesirables from Polish society."

Walesa, a devout Catholic, has been criticized by many of his former Solidarity activists for his autocratic

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bian Task Force; Nan Hunter, ACLU Nationaal Lesbian and Gay Rights Project; Nancy Polikoff, Professor at American University; Kathy Wilde, attorney for Michael Hardwick; Steve Smith, Katherine Triantafillou, Human Rights Campaign Fund; Ron Albers, Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom; Abby R. Rubenfeld, American Bar Association AIDS Coordinating committee; Jeff G. Peters, Florida AIDS Legal Defense & Education Fund; Suzanne Bryant, GLAW.

The conference will be held at the Radisson Hotel Atlanta. Registration fees are on a sliding scale by income level. Registration materials can be obtained by contacting conference cochairs Jeff G. Peters and Abby R. Rubenfeld at P.O. Box 120795, Nashville, TN 37212-0795.

Gay mail art GM Artists is a grassroots collective of Minnesotabased gay artists against censorship and the excesses of a marketplace defined soley as consumerist. In an attempt to decentralize the presentation of art, they maintain an international mail art show to promote the ideas and images of gay artists.

There are no fees, no juries, amd no rejections. Each person participating receives documentation of the show,

style.

Polish gay men and lesbians are now attempting to open a dialogue with the

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"Gay 1990's Gay Mail Art" will be photocopied and distributed to artists worldwide.

To participate, send flat art or photograph up to 81/2x11" (not returnable) to: GM Artists, P.O. Box 300006, Minneapolis, MN 55403-5006.

A contribution of stamps or dollars will be greatly appreciated, but is not required.

Lavender lithograph-Art Services announces the printing of The Lavender Empire Series and the publication of a limited edition lithograph titled "The Right To Light." This series is made possible by the Empire State building management's agreement (through the efforts of GLAAD) to illuminate the building for this year's observance of Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.

This historic event has been recorded for the entire gay and lesbian community in the dramatic imagery of the Lavender Empire Series, and is available to nonprofit organizations and businesses supportive of the gay and lesbian community.

For more information, call Will Guilliams at 212-629-8140.

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leaders, Democratic Action. The Polish lesbian and gay group, Grupa ETAP, can be contacted at P.O. Box 812, PL-50-950, Wroclaw 2, Poland.

Soviet Union According to Gai Pied of France, Soviet President Michael Gorbachev recently signed a remarkably liberal law guaranteeing anonymity to HIV carriers and promising free treatment to people with AIDS, who will receive 100 percent of their salary during sick leave, and who will be protected from discrimination.

Tokyo-Regumi, the national Japanese lesbian organization, was organized several years ago by about three hundred lesbians from around the country who paid $85 a year to join the organization.

With these funds, Regumi was able to rent a small studio along with two other women's organizations and start publishing a newsletter.

One of Regumi's chief goals is to foster lesbian pride in its members. They hold monthly meetings and some of their activities include organizing opposition to conservative anti-AIDS legislation, social and cultural activities, and sponsoring lesbian retreats and conferences.

To contact them, write to Regumi Studio-Tokyo; Nakazawa Bldg. #F; 23 Araki-cho; Shinjuku-ku #160; Tokyo Japan.

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