Date: Mon, 20 Jun 94 12:29:13 SCET
From: Marek Szymczyk <mszymczy@urm.gov.pl>

Hi everybody!
 
I would like to announce that a new one LGB organisation has been established
in Warsaw, Poland. "Ruch Lesbijek i Gejow" (RLG) [ "The Movement of Lesbians
and Gays"] has got the legal status due to the decision of the Registrative
Court in Warsaw of April 27th. This decision, after the period of legal delay,
is now in a legal force.
 
The first general meeting of RLG took place on Tuesday, 14th of June 1994. 
The RLG authorities were elected:
 
- Managing Committee 
 
             Mrs Monika Komoda - lady president
	     Mr Sylwester Biraga - president
	     Mrs Alina Cwiek - treasurer
	     
- Board of Control
 
             Mr Marek Szymczyk - president
	     Mr Robert Chodorski - member
	     Mr Dariusz Turemko	 - member.
	     
 
Main aims of RLG activity  are:
 
   - to act for social acceptation and self-acceptation of the
     homosexual and bisexual people,
   - to act for equality of rights of all people despite of
     their sexual orientation,
   - to co-operate with state agencies and NGO's in a field of
     HIV/AIDS prevention,
   - to act against social pathologies in an environment of LGB people,
   - to get relief for LGB people who are in bad circumstances
     including LGB prisoners,
   - to act for Human Rights protection.
   
   
Main tasks for nearest future are;
 
 - to fulfil the rest of legal formalities,
 - to put into words different working programs of RLG activity,
 - to join RLG to ILGA,
 - to establish co-operation with another LGB organisations.
 
 
RLG's mail address for correspondence is:
 
                 -----------------------------------
                 |     RUCH LESBIJEK I GEJOW       |
                 |     UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI      |
                 | ul. KRAKOWSKIE PRZEDMIESCIE 24  |
                 |       00-927 WARSZAWA 64        |
                 |            POLAND               |
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E-mail for RLG can be sent to: mszymczyk@urm.gov.pl
 
 
I think, that it would be fair if I explain that the most of RLG
members are former members of the Warsaw Group of LAMBDA Association.
There are still number of activists who decided to stay in LAMBDA
structure and therefore the Warsaw LAMBDA Group is continually alive.
 
 
On Monday, 13th of June '94, activists of RLG and LAMBDA met with 
Mrs Zofia Kuratowska - The Vice-president of the Senate of Republic of 
Poland. During this unofficial meeting, that elapsed in a cordial and
friendly atmosphere, Lady President made a promise of support for our
two initiatives:
 
1. Organising meeting with MPs,  members of parliamentary club of Union of 
   Freedom (political party that Mrs President belongs to). During a
   meeting we would like to present the existence and social, political and
   legal situation of sexual minority in Poland. It would be the first
   such a meeting in our country.
 
   ==========  !!!!! ATTENTION - WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT !!!!!=============
 
     Is there anybody who has experience on a field of meetings with
     politicians, MPs and can give us some valuable advises? Maybe someone
     has an outline of such a debate?
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2. We undertook to collect legal acts of EC and CE that concern sexual
   minority and translate it into polish. Copies of these acts would 
   be next printed and spread to MPs as working materials.
 
   ==========  !!!!! ATTENTION - WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT !!!!!=============
   
   We are not sure if we have a full list of these legal acts. Is there
   anybody who has it and can give it to us? Is it possible to get texts
   of these acts through Internet?
 
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Marek Szymczyk
mszymczyk@urm.gov.pl