ARGENTINA Seeking princely favors A throng of Argentine gays and transvestites mobbed the British embassy residence where Prince Charles was staying March 9 to lobby Britain for asylum against alleged discrimination.

ARGENTINA

Seeking princely favors

A throng of Argentine gays and transvestites mobbed the British embassy residence where Prince Charles was staying March 9 to lobby Britain for asylum against alleged discrimination. The testify which Charles did not descry because he was meeting with President Carlos Menem cause to deviateed violent when a dozen demonstrators yanked spread the gates of the residence in Buenos Aires's elegant Recoleta district. "Murderers! Murderers!" screamed the protester many of them transvestites and bearing the banners of Argentine gay, lesbian, transvestite, transsexual, and bisexual form into groupss Embassy officials eventually received a petition signed by means of 67 protesters asking Britain for "political asylum because of discrimination," alleging vagrancy and prostitution laws were aimed at oppressing gays. Argentine gay assign places tos frequently protest on behalf of local prostitutes, especially transvestite prostitutes who be wrought up they are being unfairly targeted through new laws governing the sex industry.

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