From: emcmanus@gr.osf.org (Eamonn McManus)
Subject: Gai Pied news items, 30th July 1992
Organization: Open Software Foundation Research Institute, Grenoble
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:29:08 GMT

Here are some news items from the 30th July issue of Gai Pied,
France's main gay weekly.  I don't remember seeing any of this
information here; Gai Pied has perhaps a more European perspective
than the majority of our participants.

The translation and the bracketed text are mine.


LOVE AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES

  Two Israeli doctors are advising woman athletes taking part in the
  Olympic Games to be as energetic in bed as they are in the stadium.
  According to Drs Halperin and Olchanietsky, codirectors of the
  Medical Centre for Impotence and Sexuality, in Jerusalem, orgasm
  gives them more motivation, more strength, and more tone.
  Unfortunately for the groupies of the male athletes, the opposite is
  the case for men.  They are even recommended abstinence for between
  three days and a week before any competition.

  [And of course the French for "groupies" is "groupies".]


SEX AND THE US NAVY

  After the sexual harassment scandal which shook the pompoms of the
  US Navy's sailors, Admiral Fetterman had launched a programme
  intended to return the minds of Navy personnel to the good old
  values: patriotism, honetsy, integrity, and professionalism.  The
  poor admiral has just been dismissed from his functions.  He is
  accused of having used his rank to protect a subordinate who had
  made homosexual advances to other members of the glorious American
  Navy.

  [I don't think US sailors have pompoms, do they?]


GERMAN CIVIL UNION

  In a statement issued in Frankfurt, the German Federation of
  Homosexuals (SVD) and gay legal experts have called for a March for
  Marriage, to town halls.  [...]  "This action will be the impetus
  for an avalanche of lawsuits that we wish to launch for legislation
  on homosexual marriage", SVD announced.


QUEEN FOR A DAY

  According to _Le Nouvel Observateur_ [French weekly current-affairs
  magazine], the exhibition on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of
  Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the Throne, at the Victoria and
  Albert Museum in London, is a veritable disaster.  For its takings,
  the museum was counting on the sale of T-shirts with the inscription
  "Queen for 40 years", but the authorities made them withdraw them
  from sale, for fear that they would become the emblem of
  quadragenarian queers!  _Shocking_!

  [The T-shirt inscription is rendered as "Une reine de 40 ans"
  without saying what it was in English, so I am guessing.]


SUCCESS FOR DENEUVE

  _DeNeuve_, the most important magazine for American Lesbians, has
  just celebrated its first anniversary, in San Francisco.  According
  to its directors, the monthly has attracted in a year more than
  78,000 readers.  Flushed with its success, _DeNeuve_ should be
  turning its attention more to the international market.

  [Why have I never heard of this magazine here?  Is it just me?]


ITALIAN PRISONERS

  A new law from the Italian Ministry of Justice means that detainees
  who are sick with AIDS need no longer remain locked up.  Certain
  hospitals have been selected in which guarded departments are to be
  set aside for these patients.  In Italy, some 10% of the prison
  population is HIV+.


SPAIN: FIGURES

  The Carlos III Institute, one of the Spanish hospitals specialising
  in the treatment of AIDS, has indicated that the number of HIV+
  people has increased by 60% in a year.  Between June 1991 and last
  June, the number went from 9,112 to 14,533.  82.7% of the PWAs are
  men, and 2.9% are less than 13 years old.


SEX AND YOUTH

  The young people's magazine _Les cles de l'actualite_ has just
  brought out its "Summer Special", a document of love, with themes as
  interesting as "the new behaviour in love"; "adolescence and
  sexuality"; and "young people and the condom", which has
  explanations and instructions for use.  There is even a chapter
  devoted to homosexuality, which is "above all a matter of free
  choice between adults".  _Les cles de l'actualite_ is including a
  condom, with the slogan "Chic, le preservatif!  cet ete,
  emballez-vous!" ["condoms are nifty!  wrap yourself up this
  summer!"], as part of the campaign of the AFLS [French Association
  for the Fight against AIDS].  Bravo for this initiative.

  [I am trying to imagine what would happen if they tried something
  like this in Ireland.  Ho hum.]


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