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Canadian Gay Paper Dies Stars to Perform at Gay Games   By Rex Wockner  International News Report

Speaking at the recent conference of the United Kingdom's Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in London, Bishop Richard Holloway of Edinburgh, primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, apologized "for the way many religious institutions, including the Christian church, have persecuted you."

"We have recently abandoned the [Bible's] tyranny over women, as we abandoned its justification for slavery, and soon we'll abandon its ignorant misunderstanding of homosexuality," Holloway said. "The real moral issue here ought to be not the meaning of the texts themselves, but the appalling way they have been used as a justification for the persecution and abandonment of God's children." 

Gays should "refuse any longer to ... be treated as a theological problem to be debated by others, without reference to them and their experience," he urged.
 

Canadian Gay Paper Dies 

The Vancouver, Canada, gay newspaper Angles has folded after 18 years. The collective that published it was broke and in debt. 

Since 1993, Angles faced strong competition from the more- professional Xtra! West, published by Toronto's Pink Triangle Press, which also publishes Xtra! in Toronto and Capital Xtra! In Ottawa.
 

Stars to Perform at Gay Games

Grace Jones, Jimmy Somerville, Right Said Fred, Bjorn Again, The Weather Girls (accompanied by hundreds of dancing sailors) and transsexual Eurovision song contest winner Dana International are some of the stars set to perform at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Gay Games this summer in Amsterdam. 

The performances take place at the Amsterdam Docklands. "The huge halls of the Docklands will be turned into a Palace of Swing with large stages, an indoor luna park and even a complete indoor street of entertainment," organizers said.

For more information or tickets, phone 011-31-20-420-0200.