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WA 9N66 1 UNITED KINGDOM CHINA transsexual bank clerk won Britain’s fifth series of Big Brother Aug. 7, getting 74 per cent of viewers’ votes. “There’s no words that could show the hap piness inside me,” said Nadia Almada, 27, who collected about $116,000. She was not out as a transsexual during the 70 days of filming. he city of Hangzhou is testing gay men for HIV at gay bars each Saturday night, China Daily reported. The first 60 rapid HIV tests, conducted vol untarily, found two cases of infection. Results are available in 20 minutes. The testing is a joint project of the Zhejiang Provincial Health Bureau and Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Center. Questioning of the men being tested suggested that only about 20 percent use condoms, the newspaper said. undreds of people marched Aug. 7 at the 14th Gay Pride parade in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A band of protesters sttxxJ outside City Hall and called for the event to he banned because of "the offensive nature of this parade fandj what it promotes," demonstrator Jonathan Lamer said. But an organizer from the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association told the British Broad casting Corp.: “A lot more people are coming out because they see our visibility and that we can walk the streets here. That gives these young, shy people—who have no other sorts of information—the courage to say who they are.” ew recruits to England’s and Wales’ 43 police forces will answer a written question about their sexual orientation starting this fall. A form will ask if the officer is heterosexual, gay, lesbian or bisexual or would “prefer not to say,’’ according to a report in The Independent daily newspaper. The Gay Police Association supports the move, saying it will help prevent marginalization of queer officers. AUSTRIA T INTERNATIONAL new poll has found that China is more open to same-sex unions than the United States. The Euro RSCG Worldwide survey also ques tioned people in the United Kingdom, France and Germany on a variety of sexual issues. About 50 percent of Chinese women and 39 percent of Chinese men said same-sex partner ships should he accorded the same status as tradi tional marriages. In the United States only 38 per cent of women and 31 percent of men agreed with that statement. In Germany, 67 percent of women and 45 percent of men agreed with the statement; in France, 48 percent of women and 35 percent of men agreed; and in the United Kingdom, 52 per cent of women and 37 percent of men agreed. Substantially more U.S. citizens—39 per cent—agreed with the statement “my religious beliefs factor into my sexual behavior.” Only 3 percent of the French, 6 percent of Germans, 15 percent of Chinese and 16 percent of Brits said that about themselves. Asked if monogamy is natural to humans, 70 percent of Chinese said yes, compared with 57 percent of Americans, 44 percent of the French, 42 percent of Brits and 40 percent of Germans. he Vatican shut down M the St. Polten semi nary Aug. 12 because of a sex scandal. The schixd, which is located near Vien PORTUGAL na, has been in operation he majority of Por since 1455. The seminary’s comput tuguese people do not ers were found to contain support same-sex civil mar kiddie porn, gay sado A sex scandal led the Vatican to close riage, a poll has found. masochistic pom, photos of the 550-year-old St. Polten seminary The scientific telephone sex with animals and pic near Vienna, Austria »survey, conducted in late tures of students kissing and July, found that 55 percent fondling each other and their male teachers. “A of the population opposes gay marriage, 35 per new beginning is necessary," the local bishop cent supports it and 10 percent has no opinion. said. The results were reported in the Aug. 8 issue of Prosecutors have charged a seminarian from the daily newspaper Correio da Manha. Poland with possessing and distributing child Among those who favor same-sex marriage, pornography. He could he imprisoned for two 54 percent also approve of adoption by gay male years. ctHiples and 62 percent approve of adoption by lesbian couples—if a child has been abandoned THE NETHERLANDS hy his or her biological parents. Support for same- epresentatives of police forces from nine sex marriage pilled higher than average among nations, meeting early last month in Am city dwellers (41 percent), people younger than sterdam, formed a Europewide support network 30 (68 [-ercent), women (39 percent), college for gay and lesbian officers. “Gaycop" also will graduates (50 percent), wealthy people (46 per offer legal assistance to gay police officers who cent) and people-who have a job (44 percent). experience discrimination on the job. Members of the new group rode on the police NEW ZEALAND boat in Amsterdam’s Gay Pride parade Aug. 7. bout 18 percent of New Zealand gay men The parade takes place on the city’s canals. and 9 percent of lesbians say they’ve been T R A