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S O U TH A F R IC A
nel policy head Adm. James Burnell-Nugent
told Western Daily Press on Aug. 31. The
British military was forced to stop discharging
homosexuals by a ruling of the European Court
of Human Rights.
“1 think it has caused less of a ruffle than the
issue of women at sea did 10 years ago,” Burnell-
Nugent said. “Although some did not welcome
the change of policy, it has not caused any great
degree of difficulty.
“There are issues to do with
sharing accommodation and so
on, which we shall deal with
using our normal manage
ment mechanisms. O n
the whole, it has not
caused a great upset
among the services.”
Gay relationships
are permitted on Navy
ships as long as they do
not affect the perfor
mance or morale of other
servicemembers,
a
spokesman said.
ozens of patrons were injured in an
Aug. 20 shooting at a bar frequented by
gays in Soweto, according to Johannesburg’s
OUTright magazine. Three gunmen blocked the
exit of the Get Ahead Shebeen club while
other assailants declared that the invasion was
not a robbery and opened fire.
Patrons claimed two people died in the
attack, but the owner of the bar said nobody was
killed. The incident in Soweto— a
largely black area— has received
minimal news coverage, OUTright
said.
The attack took place
the same night a car bomb
exploded outside the
Cape Town gay bar
Bronx, injuring the door
man and shattering the
club’s windows.
In an e-mail, O U T -
right editor Daniel Som
erville said: “It is disgust
ing and disgraceful (that the
media has not covered this].
This is an attack against our
GER M ANY
community. It doesn’t m at
ays will be treated
ter if it was Sow eto or
J equally in the German
Klerksdorp or Cape Town;
military from now on. The
lesbian and gay people— be
government told parliament
they English, Afrikaans, Zulu
Aug. 31 that homosexuality is
or Xhosa— must stand in sol
not “a separate entry criterion”
idarity against hom ophobia.”
for service.
Another Cape Town gay club, Blah Bar, was
The announcem ent came as a result of a
bombed last November. Nine people were discrimination case filed by an officer who was
injured in that blast.
demoted after superiors learned he is gay. The
Ministry of Defense plans to issue a brochure
TH A IL A N D
on proper handling of gay servicemembers
J o lic e from the Immigration Bureau and
and will make it clear that discrimination
C hildren’s Welfare Protection Division
based on sexual orientation is forbidden, a
raided Bangkok’s Colony Sauna on Aug. 28 spokesman said.
and arrested two men.
According the Bangkok Post, the officers
A M S TER D A M
found about 100 foreigners drinking and party
A msterdam’s Artis Zoo has created tours for
ing in the company of naked Thai boys and
i I gays and lesbians to reassure them that
teen-agers. Several patrons were taken to a homosexuality is natural. The tour spotlights
police station for questioning.
gay monkeys and geese, a lesbian chimp and
Sauna manager Nikorn N ianthong and
flamingos that have same-sex orgies.
British citizen John Richard Duffy were charged
“Homosexuality is a natural phenom e
with procurement of prostitution and lewd con non," zoo director Maarten Frankenhuis said.
duct. Duffy reportedly was celebrating his birth “Many visitors are surprised. They realize that
day and told police the boys were hired to keep
they themselves or their sons and daughters
his friends company during the festivities.
are not strange at all— they just belong to a
Another gay club was raided Aug. 18. More
minority.
than 20 Thai youths were arrested, and a French
man was charged with lewd conduct.
Compiled by R ex WOCKNER, who has reported
for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
degree in journalism from Drake University and
U N ITE D K IN G D O M
ew problems have occurred since the Navy started his career as a radio reporter.
dropped its ban on gays in January, person
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