AT THE end of August the International Gay Association Brighton to prepare for its second annual conference in Barcelona next year. It was an important meeting because it saw the formation autonomous grouping within the organisation, and it was the last meeting before the decision of the European Commission of Human Rights on homosexual law reform in Northern Ireland is announced The IGAR has Usan ations mustralia anan New Zeeland.
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Contact has recently been made with gay groups in Africa and Indonesia. Set up only twelve months ago, it has maximised the effectiveness gay organisations international action, most spectacularly in the campaign government from vicious new anti-gay legislation. It has organised demonstrations persecuțion of gay people in Russia, against the Briggs proposals in California, and against the executions of gays by the Khomeini regime in Iran.
To date the membership of the IGA has been almost exclusively male -lesbians at the first conference in Bergen. At Brighton, women from Holland and Denmark met to set up a lesbian grouping, with separate meetings from the men, within the IGA. At the Barcelona conference the IGA will change its name to the International Lesbian and Gay Association.
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