Gay group seeks to have transvestites jailed
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Gay and Lesbian Alliance, a conservative LGB but not T group, is going out of its way to force South African police to arrest transvestites should they dare appear in a forthcoming Gay Pride parade. Is it possible that the GLA is even more disgusting than America's own Log Cabin Republicans?
"We are the ones who brought the Regulation of Gatherings Act to the attention of the police - it is like they didn't study it well," David Baxter, spokesperson for the conservative Gay and Lesbian Alliance (GLA), on Monday.
After an outcry over the threat to arrest drag queens and other disguised revellers in Saturday's parade in Johannesburg, metro police on Monday backtracked and gave the organisers the green light to strut their stuff.
But the GLA has vowed to make sure drag queens in particular are arrested for contravening the apartheid-era act

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Posted by: Alan | October 12, 2004 03:48 PM