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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 2000)
r [WTïïlîlnetus reaction was such that I thought people might attack me when they saw me on the streets. But I have since learned that there are many supporters, too.” BELARUS I he Minsk bar Reactor canceled the Miss X Diva 2000 drag contest Oct. 27, saying the nations president and city officials have threat ened to close the club if it holds gay events, local activists reported. The club also refused to return $1,300 that the Belarus Lambda League had paid to rent the venue, the league said. In September, city officials banned the gay pride parade, shut down the pride week launch event, closed the entire building that houses the pride office, canceled the gay film festival and shut down other locations where pride events were planned. Gays protested by holding an afternoon of unauthorized seminars in a city park, then marching to a downtown monument and unfurling a large rainbow flag. A U S TR A L IA he 2002 Gay Games in Sydney will pour $260 million into Australia’s economy, the Federation of Gay Games says. T P H ILIP P IN E S 1 ! hilippine cops went undercover as homo sexuals Nov. 5 to catch strippers dancing naked at the Malabon gay bar Bohelle s Disco. A total of 10 men were arrested and charged with indecent exposure and illegal public exhi bition. The bar likely will he shut down, accord ing to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. N orth Portland Veterinary Hospital TH A ILA N D B T I angkok’s daylong Lady Party 2000 drew 400 lesbians to the Hera Club on Ratcha- daphisek Road on Nov. 4. But it wasn’t all fun and games. The lesbian organization Anjaree announced plans to launch a gay awareness campaign in public schools. “Homosexuals exist in every age group, but most of those who declare themselves homosex ual are teen-agers,” coordinator Chantarak Rak- sayu told the Bangkok Post. 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The recent Sydney Olympics attracted 11,000 athletes. “Since we do not use the athletes village, we expect all of the participants and the spectators to go to the hotels in the city, eat in the restau rants around the city, shop in the shops around the city,” federation co-president Bill Wassmer told The Age. “Since it is such a far distance to come, we expect that most of the participants will stay for two or three weeks to see much more of Australia, so the economic impact will not only be felt in Sydney or New South Wales but all over Australia and New Zealand and the South Pacific region." Meanwhile, New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has refused to give local games organizers a $260,000 grant. 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