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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
September 18, 1992
Lesbian-gay march on the United Nations set for 1994
An International March on the United Nations to Affirm the Human Rights of Lesbian and Gay People will be held on June 26, 1994, in New York City.
The date is a year and two months after the National March on Washington next April. The march is timed to coincide with New York's observance of the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 1969. The name and demands were decided at the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), meeting in Paris, France, last July. The over 250 conference participants, from over 30 countries, unanimously endorsed the March. "For this event to be truly international in scope and for it to gather significant international support and participation, it is essential that the basic political decisions be made on an international basis," said Gro Linstad, of Norway,
who chaired the session. "This process seems to be well underway," she added.
The demands of the march include a call upon the United Nations and its member states to take all necessary action to assure that the promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights not be denied to lesbian, gay and bisexual people, nor to people who have AIDS or are HIV positive.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the UN in 1948, proclaims that all human beings are entitled to basic human rights.
An International Advisory Committee including representatives of organizations from countries on every continent will meet at the 1993 ILGA Conference in Barcelona, Spain, to plan the program of the International Rally on June 26, 1994, in New York City.
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The March and Rally will take place on the last Sunday in June, the day the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. Those riots, which began with an uprising against a police raid on a New York gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, sparked the contemporary lesbian-gay movement. Pride groups across the U.S. and in other countries are shifting the dates of their events to avoid conflicting with the International March and Rally.
March demands:
We call upon the United Nations, its agencies, its member states and its affiliated non-governmental organizations to take all necessary action to assure that:
1. The promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights not be denied to lesbian, gay and bisexual people;
2. The rights and freedoms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights be fulfilled to all people, including lesbian, gay and bisexual people, without distinction of any kind, such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, language, age, disability, socio-economic status and national or social origin;
3. The agencies of the UN and nongovernmental organizations affiliated with the UN undertake to report on violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affecting lesbian, gay and bisexual people;
4. The promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regard to the right to health care not be denied to people who have AIDS or are HIV positive;
5. The promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with regard to the right to health care care not be denied to people with HIV/AIDS, nor to lesbian, gay and bisexual people, including those who desire to engage in reproduction;
6. The global effort to combat HIV/ AIDS be intensified;
7. The member states of the UN adopt a protocol to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to define as a crime of genocide the intended destruction of any of the targets of the Holocaust, including lesbian, gay and bisexual people, and the intentional destruction of any population group based on that group's race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, language, age, disability, socio-econimic status and national or social origin;
8. The agencies of the UN not deny nongovernmental organizations recognition or consultative status on the basis of their support for lesbian, gay and bisexual people, or people who have AIDS or are HIV positive;
9. The General Assembly of the UN proclaim an International Year of Lesbian and Gay People (possibly 1999);
10. The UN and its agencies not discriminate against lesbian, gay and bisexual people in matters of contracting, hiring, employment conditions and termination;
11. The member states increase the funding of the human rights agencies of the UN to accelerate the progress toward realizing the promises of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
12. The right of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people to create families be recognized and protected, and that our family relationships with each other and our children be celebrated in 1994, The International Year of the Family.
We call upon the United Nations and the people of the world to join us in affirming the dignity and legitimacy of lesbian, gay and bisexual people as participants in the rich mosaic that constitutes the diversity of the human family.
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