Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.motss Subject: Re: Gay games and South Africa Message-ID: <1708@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 10:38:42 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1708 Posted: Tue Feb 18 10:38:42 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Feb-86 03:38:06 EST References: <3241@sun.uucp> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 19 Thanks for going to the trouble, Will. However, the policy statement isn't very enlightening. The issue con- cerns a series of real events as reported in the gay press (a recent GCN, I believe) and not a statement: the admission of an all-white South African contingent to the Games, despite an alleged earlier promise that it wouldn't occur, and the subsequent withdrawal of contingents/organizations from Scotland and another country (Canada? Netherlands?). My reaction is more mixed now due to mail & discussion (thanks for the mail, folks), but if the above account is true, whatever the Games staff says it does or would like to do, then I frankly can't escape a feeling of uncleanness being part of the games. Is it worth avoiding being unfair to particular gay South Africans whose lot isn't easy, at the cost of allowing apartheid to ultimate shape South African participa- tion in the games. It strikes me as somewhat sleazy.