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JA P A N he more than 200 small gay bars in Tokyo’s Shinjuku 2-chome neighborhood have seen a drop-off in customers, in part because it’s easier and cheaper to make new friends online, Japan Times reported Jan. 28. “Today, gays can meet friends or sex part ners through Internet sites quickly and for free,” said Bungaku Ito, editor of the gay maga zine Barazoku. “They no longer need to bother to come all the way to 2-chome and pay for drinks just to meet people.” Shinjuku 2-chome also is losing customers to hundreds of small gay bars that have opened up in nightlife areas that previously were patronized only hy straight people, Japan Times said. Ito said the num ber of personal ads in his magazine has plummeted, too, from about 1,000 a month to 200. T N O RW A Y penly gay Finance Minister A U S T R A L IA Per-Kristian Foss made world he top cop in the Aus history Jan. 25 when he was tralian state o f Victoria installed as acting prime minister Kimberly Nixon participated in M elbou rne’s temporarily. seventh G ay Pride parade Prime Minister Kjell Magne Jan. 20. T h e march included about 70 co n Bondevik and Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, tingents and was watched hy 5 0 ,0 0 0 who is second in the line of succession, were both out of the country. “I think that this, per spectators. Christine Nixon was the first police com haps, can have a small impact on the discussion” missioner in Australian history to join a Gay of gay rights, Foss told Reuters. Pride parade. Assistant Commissioner Noel Last month, he likely became the first Ashy and about 50 officers and recruits also Cabinet-level official in the world to marry a same-sex partner. The Conservative tied the knot marched. with Jan Erik Knarhakk under Norway’s gay part N ixo n and th e o th e r officers were nership law, which grants more than 99 percent denounced hy the opposition N ational of the rights and obligations of matrimony. Party and some callers to radio talk shows. "It is inappropriate for the ch ief com m is “1 see that many newspapers are writing sioner to take about it and that’s nice, hut I don’t think about it that much,” Foss told Reuters. part in this march, and it is C H IN A also wrong for police officers to hina’s state-run media have developed an he paid to march “insatiable appetite” for news about gays in in th eir u n i the past two months, Singapore’s Straits Times form s,” opposi reported Jan. 27. It started in November when tion leader the Huaxia Times called China “half a heaven -Denis N apthine for homosexuals,” the paper said. said. This month, the craze led M odem Civiliza tion Pictorial, published hy the Chinese Acad Nixon told the emy of Social Sciences, to devote an entire Sunday Age: “It is about Victoria issue to homosexuality. A gay cover story also Christine Nixon appears in February’s City W eekend magazine. Police showing that they are committed to the whole commu The Ministry of Public Health says China nity.... I think it is probably a break from previ has 30 million to 40 million gay men. It has no ous tradition, hut I think it is an important estimate of the lesbian population. Activists speculate the new openness flows step." O C ‘BCocfcs fo r y ‘ our future "
