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Title: Beijing police cancel gay pageant
Post by: Shana A on January 16, 2010, 08:57:38 AM

Beijing police cancel gay pageant
Published on 15 January 2010 - 4:41pm

http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/beijing-police-cancel-gay-pageant (http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/beijing-police-cancel-gay-pageant)

Police in Beijing have ordered China's first gay pageant to close an hour before opening. The event was seen as a sign of growing openness towards China's gay community.

The police said the pageant, which was to take place in an upscale nightclub, could not go ahead because the organisers had failed to inform the authorities. The programme was to include a fashion show presented by a transvestite.
Title: Re: Beijing police cancel gay pageant
Post by: tekla on January 16, 2010, 09:07:25 AM
1. I think they only had 8 contestants, how much of a big deal could that have been?
2. However, their child policies have created a society with 24 million more men then women, so ....