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When the Texas Triangle
asked Minnelli last month if
she has “good gaydar,” she
replied: “What? No! I’m terri
ble. You’re talking to the girl
who married Peter Allen.”
T
he International Gay & Les
bian Human Rights Com
mission says police in Bangalore
are mistreating hijras and kothis.
Hijras are people who are
trans or have intersex condi
tions— mostly men who under
go castration. They are found
gay janitorial manager at
throughout South Asia. Kothis
the British Broadcasting
are men who have sex with men
Corp. in Manchester, England,
and see themselves as feminine.
was fired March 26 for making
IGLH RC cited instances of
a sexual joke to a female co
arbitrary arrest and torture as
worker. Vincent Monks’ superi
ors said he sexually harassed
well as an apparent ban on hijra
the unnamed woman in the
meetings within the city limits.
company bar when he said to
Seven officers from the Com Vincent Monks
her, “I could take you home
mercial Street Police Station vis
ited the sexual minorities resource center Sanga-
and make passionate love to you.”
ma and demanded it stop playing host to hijra
“W hen I was told about the allegation 1
meetings March 17. They followed up March 31
was gobsmacked; it was unbelievable,” the
by physically preventing hijras and kothis, as well 49-year-old told the M anchester Evening
as some activists and others, from entering the Nevus. “T he whole incident was lighthearted
banter, which somehow became an allegation
premises, IGLHRC said.
against me. To be told as a gay man that I am
U N IT E D K IN G D O M
being sacked for sexually harassing a woman
is just ridiculous.”
iza Minnelli says rumors her new husband is
gay are false, London’s the Sun reported
A U S T R A L IA
March 30. The 56-year-old married David Gest,
egislation passed the Parliament of the state
48, last month in New York City.
of Western Australia on March 21 that
“I know many of my husband’s ex-girlfriends
who will agree that if every man was as good in grants same-sex couples marriage rights in areas
bed as David, there would be a lot of happy such as adoption, in vitro fertilization, property
women in the world,” the singer reportedly said. transfer, medical treatment, inheritance and
“We moved in together one week after we met; death benefits. The legal age for gay sex also was
that says it all.”
lowered from 21 to 16.
Asked what would be a good wedding pres-
According to the Australian Associated
ent for Minnelli this time around, singer Elton
Press, the measures were “among the most
John said, “A heterosexual husband,” according contentious pieces of legislation...in years, as
to the Seattle Post-lntelligencer and M SN BC.
pro-family groups held rallies and placed
According to the New York Post, All My Chib newspaper advertisements suggesting the laws
dren star Ruth Warrick told the U.S. tabloid would lead to men having sex with 13-year-
newspaper the Globe: “If Liza was expecting pas- old boys.” The state’s largest city is Perth,
sion with David on their wedding night, believe
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A
gay man wearing a
wedding dress and a
lesbian wearing a tuxedo
and a mustache got married
March 25 at the Hong
Kong City Hall registry
office in order to access sub
sidized rental housing avail
able only to straight couples
and to challenge heterosex
ist laws.
Noel Chen, 28, and
Yeo Wai-wai, 25, said that
they have no intention of
living together because
they already have part
ners— and that their mates
plan to wed each other as
well. “Our purpose is to
challenge the ban on hous
ing assistance, married per
sons’
tax allowances and
David Gest and Liza Minnelli talk to the media about their new
adoption services to homo
show Jan. 24 in London’s Dorchester Hotel
sexual couples in Hong
Kong,” Chen told Agence France-Presse.
me, she’s still waiting. David’s been secretly into
men, not women, for the entire 25 years I’ve
N EW ZEA LA N D
known him.”
ew Zealand’s biggest gay event, the annual
Warrick, 86, later denied making the state
Hero parade in Auckland, was a shadow of its
ment. “I have no knowledge of any affairs with
former self March 24 because of money problems.
men— not a whisper,” she told the Post.
The crowd was smaller, there was just one
Gest was quoted by ThisIsLondon.com as
saying: “I guess [the gay rumor] sells papers. I float, and the event was renamed a “march”
mean, I know who 1 am. That’s the most impor rather than a “parade.” A rally and concert fol
lowed in Western Park.
tant thing. We are going to beat the odds. We’ll
die in each other’s arms, I promise you.”
Compiled by R ex WoCKNER, who has reported
Minnelli’s first husband was gay singer/song-
writer Peter Allen. Her father, Vincent, was hi. for the gay press since 1985. He has a bachelor’s
Her mother, Judy Garland, also married a gay degree m journalism from Drake University and
started his career as a radio reporter.
man, Mark Herron.
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