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B
etween 40 and 200
drag queens will
appear in the closing
ceremonies of the Sydney
Olympic Gam es on Oct. 15
during a segment celebrating
Australian movies.
Some will wear gowns from the film The
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. “Titis
element of the show is only a tiny part o f a huge
celebration, and for the right-wing reactionar
ies— or whatever part of the community is out
raged about it— they’re always going to he out
raged,” ceremony director Ric Birch told Reuters.
SOUTH AFRICA
car bomb exploded outside the C ape Town
gay bar Bronx on Aug. 20, injuring the
doorman and shattering the windows.
Activists said four other individuals in front of
the club were hurt, hut police could not confirm
that. A taxi driver told the SA PA news agency
the explosion shot flames two stories high.
“ I got one hell o f a fright,” he said. “My heart
was still heating fast half an hour later.”
Another Cape Town gay club, Blah Bar, was
bombed last November. N ine people were
injured in that blast.
A
outh Africa’s Pretoria High Court on Aug.
13 removed a 17-year-old from the custody
o f her heterosexual father and sent her to live
with her lesbian mother. Judge Eberhard Ber
telsmann also overturned a 1993 ruling that
restricted the mother and her lover from sleep
ing in the same bed when the girl or her broth
er were visiting.
The girl’s case returned to court after she
complained that the father imprisoned her in his
house after he read her diary and learned she was
having sex with her boyfriend. She also said that
she was not allowed to watch television, listen to
the radio or use the phone and that her father
refused to speak to her, even on her birthday.
S
% outh A frica’s N a-
J tional Coalition for
G ay and Lesbian Equal
ity is demanding a com
mission of inquiry be
formed to investigate
reports that military
doctors tortured hom o
sexuals with forced sex-
change operations and
chem ical
castration
from the 1970s to 1994.
According to the Mail & Guardian, military
psychiatrists and chaplains
colluded to identify gay
I draftees and send them
to W ard 22 o f Voor-
trekkerhoogte
military
hospital for “ rehabilita
tion.” T h e coalition’s petition is
supported by Am nesty Internation
al and the South African Council o f Churches.
J
JA P A N
T
'okyo gays expressed surprise and anger Aug.
15 upon learning the first draft of the city gov
ernment’s new human rights guidelines contains
no mention of them, the Daily Yomiuri reported.
G ay groups had been included in hearings
where the draft was ham m ered out. A
spokesman for Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara
said gay issues were excluded from the document
because “ the government has not yet received
understanding [about homosexuals] from the
majority of Tokyo residents.”
Masaki Inaba, a spokesm an for the gay group
Occur, responded: “A lthough the amount of
information available to the public about homo
sexuals [has] increased, it is still considered
socially O K to pick on hom osexuals and label
them second-class citizens. T h is is a result of the
lack of information about gays and lesbians.
G overnm ent recognition is necessary for the
proper measures to he taken.”
T he guidelines will he finalized before win
ter, the Daily Yomiun said.
U N IT E D K IN G D O M
B
ritain’s Royal A ir Force said Aug. 15 that a
39-year-old helicopter navigator who had a
sex-change operation will continue to fly. Flight
Lt. Caroline Paige, formerly Eric Cookson,
served in Bosnia and the Persian Gulf.
“About two years a g o ...l realized 1 was not
living my true life— so I decided to do some
thing about it,” she told The Sun newspaper.
“Now I can’t wait to get back to flying.”
PERU
O ome residents and politicians in Cusco— for
mer capital o f the Inca Empire— are upset
after learning the city flag looks just like the gay
rainbow flag. Officials are considering changing
the design.
“Many foreign visitors com e here and feel a
little confused at our flag,” M ayor C arlos Valen
cia said. “They stare at it, wondering."
The Cusco flag and the gay flag Kith were cre
ated, independently, in the 1970s. The only dif
ference is a light blue strip in the Cusco banner.
CANADA
L
jjal Dosanjh, British Colum bia premier,
made history Aug. 6 by becom ing the first